We both love Freecycle. For those who haven't come across it yet, check it out. It's a website that allows you to gift away things that you no longer need, and that others may want, and stops lots of perfectly usable items going to landfill. All that it asks is that you gift some thing first, and then you become a member of a local group, and are able to ask for things that are being gifted or even post "wants".
Like most things where there's the possibility of something for nothing, there are some greedy and unrealistic people who ask for cars, flat screen tvs, lap tops and the like, but they're in the minority, and thankfully, largely ignored. The majority of fellow freecyclers are more likely to be queueing up for a few panes of old greenhouse glass or chicken manure.
We recently offered Cols old mountain bike, and not surprisingly we were deluged with requests, now this is the hard bit, how do you weed people down. Unfortunately there are usually a few people who are rude and just don't get it - comments such "I'll take the bike off your hands, tell me your address, and I'll come over now", get instantly deleted, and unfortunately people claiming to work for charities are usually the worst culprits of doing this, so we generally look for the friendliest sounding email, and this is how we chose to gift the bike. Definitely a good choice of people, they've already been back in touch twice to tell us how happy it's made them, and we are definitely feeling the love, from gifting something, that was basically taking up room in the shed.
Like most things where there's the possibility of something for nothing, there are some greedy and unrealistic people who ask for cars, flat screen tvs, lap tops and the like, but they're in the minority, and thankfully, largely ignored. The majority of fellow freecyclers are more likely to be queueing up for a few panes of old greenhouse glass or chicken manure.
We recently offered Cols old mountain bike, and not surprisingly we were deluged with requests, now this is the hard bit, how do you weed people down. Unfortunately there are usually a few people who are rude and just don't get it - comments such "I'll take the bike off your hands, tell me your address, and I'll come over now", get instantly deleted, and unfortunately people claiming to work for charities are usually the worst culprits of doing this, so we generally look for the friendliest sounding email, and this is how we chose to gift the bike. Definitely a good choice of people, they've already been back in touch twice to tell us how happy it's made them, and we are definitely feeling the love, from gifting something, that was basically taking up room in the shed.
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