freecycle- reuse dont bin

welshdeedee

bones61 wrote: »

I won't tell about your request for "the plasma TV (delivery required) and DON'T FORGET the bracket" if you don't mention my "wide screen duel processor laptop with HD DVD/RW and minimum 2G ram"

with or without vista

welshdeedee

BTW havn't see any posts from Pam recently, hope she hasn't been freecycled!

bones61

bones61 wrote: »

I won't tell about your request for "the plasma TV (delivery required) and DON'T FORGET the bracket" if you don't mention my "wide screen duel processor laptop with HD DVD/RW and minimum 2G ram"

oops, that should have been a PM

angelatgraceland

Morty_007 wrote: »

This thread is acknowledging that this is EXACTLY what freecycle is for!! It's those people who suddenly need a multitude of electrical items all the correct colour and in perfect order, all at the same time and frequently ask for "expensive" stuff that the thread is "knocking". FC was set up so people could offer their unwanted stuff not so greedy people could post shopping lists!!

There's a VAST difference

abd LMAO @ now needing 25 meters!!

Freecycle was set up to keep stuff out of landfill totally regardless of its monetary value.
People are being sidetracked by money! It really is NOT what Freecycle is about. The whole point is to save it not bin it, if someone else can make use of it. Whether it is white, silver, as new, tatty, working or non-working, people chuck things out. As a result of this, it may be possible to save it and rehome it. Freecycle was never set up to "help the poor either" although it does of course, and it totally supports charities. Let us remember its TRUE purpose and stop this silly deviation! Landfill! Landfill! Landfill!

aceyjill

We have just removed most of the grass from our back garden to widen
our borders so that we can put some trees in. The rest of the garden
now looks very bare though and it will cost a lot of money to buy
enough plants to fill it.

If you have any plants/rose bushes/shrubs that are either
lilac/pink/blue/ white that you don't want we'll gladly come along with
our spades and dig them up!

Or you could buy a packet ot grass seeds.

angelatgraceland

Buy! Money! Money! Money! Lets all stop being ripped off by the "must have society" and wanting to buy stuff. There is someone out there somewhere who doesnt want to put the extra plants in landfill. Why on earth not let someone else benefit from them? No harm in asking for such a person to respond.Sorry, but you are completely missing the point!

bones61

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Freecycle was set up to keep stuff out of landfill totally regardless of its monetary value.
People are being sidetracked by money! It really is NOT what Freecycle is about. The whole point is to save it not bin it, if someone else can make use of it. Whether it is white, silver, as new, tatty, working or non-working, people chuck things out. As a result of this, it may be possible to save it and rehome it. Freecycle was never set up to "help the poor either" although it does of course, and it totally supports charities. Let us remember its TRUE purpose and stop this silly deviation! Landfill! Landfill! Landfill!

We know what freecycle is about, we joined it didn't we? doesn't stop us having a laugh about it though.
I am sure that some of the 'shopping lists' have actually been filled.
step back a bit and just think about our comments on here. We condemn those that have no manners, the rest we take the P out of them.
freecycle your soap box and don't take life so seriously, we only have a finite time to enjoy ourselves

bones61

WANTED sense of humour for someone who is missing the point

learn to smile please

welshdeedee

I agree bones, we don't need a lecture on the t & c of freecycle. From what I read on this thread, the cheeky people with their cheeky requests deserve having the **** extracted out of them.

16011996

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Buy! Money! Money! Money! Lets all stop being ripped off by the "must have society" and wanting to buy stuff. There is someone out there somewhere who doesnt want to put the extra plants in landfill. Why on earth not let someone else benefit from them? No harm in asking for such a person to respond.Sorry, but you are completely missing the point!

none of us wants to see stuff go off to landfill, however i do object quite strongly to people who think freecycle is there way to get everything they "want" (not "need") and post ridiculous shopping lists. if people are members of the site anyways they will offer what ever they have to give away anyways, a wanted isn't going to make people suddenly say, yeah lets get rid of the laptop, tv, etc is it?
i've fulfilled a couple of wanted for reasonable items, which helped me clear space, i've also offered loads of stuff on there that would have gone either to landfill or more likely the charity shop. we have had some ridiculous requests for stuff, if someone really wanted to give away something of such value, they would offer it, far more likely than replying to a begging email off someone who "needs" one.
we love freecycle, wouldn't all be members if we didn't agree with its fundamental reason for being there. its the p-takers who use it for there own gain that wind us up.