Why is it so difficult to give stuff away?

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Have a bunch of school uniform to give away for the local secondary school? Worn but good condition. Placed on Freecycle, lots of enquiries but all wanted delivery which, when I'm giving it away I'm not prepared to do and seeing as it's the local school then chances are any person wanting that particular uniform is going to be local to me as well as school.
Put it on Facebook and again lots of enquiries, some wanting delivery and others not collecting. Thought it would be easy to give away well over £150 worth of stuff for free but apparently not. Will give it a couple more days and then stick in the charity bag. Anyone else find it difficult to get people to collect stuff for free?

Hasn't the school got a 2nd hand sale? It could make some money for school funds.

Can you not hand it into the school? Do they have a second hand uniform shop? That way your old uniform could be raising money for the school.

We tried to get rid of two big items of garden furniture on both Freecycle and our local FB board. When they hadn't shifted in a month (despite numerous offers to collect) i put them on eBay and ended up getting £150. Not bad considering i was initially trying to give them away!

Give it to the school. They'll know which families are struggling and which kids have tatty or outgrown uniform that could do with replacing; the parents in question may not have seen your post, or may be too proud to accept help.

I had a huge amount of stuff to get rid of so signed up to Freecycle. Started with an antique desk. Quite shabby but nice. Several people interested, one arranged to collect after many messages about dimensions then didn't turn up. Then I got abuse from him when I asked why he didn't turn up!
Got local charity shop to collect a van load in the end.

Had already offered it to the school who didn't want it because they said they had no idea who to offer it to and there is no second hand uniform shop as they seemingly don't have the space. Hopefully someone will collect, I've left it in the porch so there are no time constraints anyway.

Give it to a charity shop close to the school

Yes that's the plan if nobody collects.

Why would you offer it to the general public instead of directly to the school?! I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to take it.

Our primary school doesn't have 2nd hand uniform sales, either, or any way of slipping stuff to families in need. School is smack in middle of social housing estate, certainly not a naice area.

Local Facebook 'for free/sale' pages?

I'm trying to give away a wardrobe & getting no interest.

That's the thing with free cycle, there is this entitlement attitude that assumes that the giver will box it up and deliver it to the receiver. This isn't deliveroo people. I had a similar case with baby items (baby swing, car seat and bouncer etc, big bits) and we nearly gave it to someone who was going to send a taxi for the items. No problem, but then the taxi driver would have wanted payment immediately. I ended that agreement. Get on a bus and come an get your stuff- is what I was really thinking.

We gave it to an extremely grateful charity shop and could never have been happier!

Teaaddict yes it's the ones that expect you to deliver that really bug me. I feel like replying "it's free, why would I want it to cost me petrol to give something away?"