) but on a serious note, I though it might help some folk who dont know about it.Basically Freecycle is a globe wide thing whereby people gift something they want rid of to another for free.
For example, say you get a new telly, theres nothing wrong with your old one, but you cant be arsed to flog it or to haul it to a chariy shop, so you fling it in the nearest skip, or you change your decor, and your suite doesnt 'go' anymore, but its still in good nick, but you take it to the tip.
Well, the premise of Freecycle is to keep useable and recycleable stuff from the landfill, thus helping the environment, and reducing stuff thats sent to landfill sites.
You click the link
and scrool down to where it says find your nearest group, and click that.
Then you join the group or groups nearest to you and sign up for the daily messages, and everytime someone offers something, a message will be sent to your email inbox (sometimes, depending on the size of the group you join, you can have up to 60 emails a day, but you can opt out of the daily messages if you want to)
If you see something you would like, you email the person, and ask if they would consider you for the item, some people chosee names from a hat, depending on how many people reply, some do it on a first come first served basis, some have other ways of choosing. The person receiving the item, then collects.
No money changes hands, its all free. You can also offer stuff on there if you are having a clear out.
Its not a facility to abuse, and collect loads of stuff to sell on on ebay, for you to make a profit from, and mods monitor if the same people seem to be asking for stuff all the time, and they like you to offer stuff as well as ask.
But some of the stuff I have seen offered for FREE on my local groups have been, dishwashers, washers, driers, kids garden toys, bikes, all manner of furniture for every room in the house, clothes, baby stuff, pianos, even cars and caravans.
You can even pick up or get rid of stuff like old magazine collections, bric a brac, vinyl records....the list is endless. One mans crap is another mans treasure as they say.
I thought I would put this on as not everyone has the money to spend on stuff like this, and it could help someone out of a bind, or it could help spur someone on to do that de-clutter that theyve alsways promised to do, and also if it helps the planet too, then it can only be a good thing.
sorry its been a long post :lol:
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