Freecycling

It’s now just over a week since I started freecycling – and I’m so impressed. Basically, you look around your house/room/whatever and realise that it’s full of stuff that you never use, but someone might find useful. Now, of course, you could take the time to list it on eBay, but when it’s a large pile of children’s clothes that will need rewashing, ironing, photographing, weighing, listing… and then probably won’t sell for more than about 99p, it’s hardly worth it. Or if it weighs too much to make postage viable. So you log on to freecycle and find your local group – list a brief description of the item(s) in question and wait for people to say “Oooh yes please, I want that.” So far I’ve disposed of 5 large carrier bags of children’s clothes and an IKEA lighting system. And I’ve gained a plastic tray on wheels to put under the bed (now, hmmm, let me see, what could I put in it?) I’ve even had the cheek to offer our broken-down washing machine – no-one seems to want it (funny that!), but the motor is still intact, and you never know, someone might come over all inventive and decide to use the drum as a planter…

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Thanks for the tip!

Fi () (link) - 10 February '06 - 16:14

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