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flowerofscotland

sarah1975uk wrote:

Can you give me a link so i can register and find out more please? :T

http://www.freecycle.org/display.php?region=United+Kingdom - just click on your city or county

teedy23

I would love to check this out but cant seem to get on it, I must be doing summit wrong

beer2006

moonpixiewitch wrote:

As a moderator on several freecycle groups , this is the most common complaint and reason for people leaving. Please sign in on yahoo groups go to your freecycle group and click on edit my settings , change the drop down menu from individual emails to daily digest .
You will then only get one email a day. :rotfl: :T :T

I'm in around 4 groups, in my experience if you don't get in with a request for the item within 10 mins you stand little chance. I have got things asking later than that, but its the exception rather than the rule.

Make a subfolder in your inbox, point all emails with freecycle in the body or title into the folder, you clear out your inbox that way and if you don't look at it for a couple of days, you can just delete the lot.
But I like to keep them all, so when I'm giving something away, I can see if the person that wants my item has done any giving themselves.

There are some lovely people on freecycle and there are some right idiots.

Hattie321

quoia wrote:

On the Leics group last week an "obviously new and unused COFFIN" was offered.

apparently "it was an unwanted gift"

Somebody took it.

I saw that too..it was an eco friendly one if i remember rightly! :-) I have been trying for a dishwasher for ages and then when they come up for offer i miss out on them, but i must admit i have offered and received on the site and made some friends along the way!!

alanthehamster

The trouble with freecycle is it's getting clogged with want ads

beer2006

I know, sometimes for stupid stuff, wanted cars, paragliding stuff, some of it very expensive stuff.

Spendaholic_Chick

I LOVE Freecycle - my house is so much less cluttered because of it :-)

mhoc

Someone on our group was offering a downstairs loo this weekend which they said was almost unused and in mint conditon and had all the bits inside :rotfl:

On another of my group someone was offering a packet of paxo stuffing :j

Mary

pecanshampoo

yeap my sister got us some expensive looking rose oak chairs from freecycle, they were very heavy and beautiful! we gave them some choccies to say thanks!

I've since given away some things, foot massagers etc. Its a perfect way to give things away and convenient too as its picked up from your house and you dont need to worry about postage!

freelancemermaid

to avoid being overwhelmed with messages if you're in a big freecycle group, make sure you subscribe to the daily digest, as opposed to individual messages. the homepage for your group should tell you how, otherwise ask the moderator