To begin to dislike Freecycle?

[breatheslowly]

Freecycle is a great idea and has worked for us really well in the past - both ways. But in the last week our local group has had wanteds for:

TV 36 inch or bigger
Ikea Trofast storage system
Washing machine in working order
Wooden high chair

Surely these are too specific and freecycle isn't a personal shopping site.

I don't mind the many other wanteds and lots of them are actually for sensible things - jars for jam making etc.

Flyingmum - DS is 11 (VERY nearly) and 5 ft tall, so it's a big boys bike we need. We're Nottinghamshire (but have transport).

Any condition sought, as long as it is safe. I am assuming that I'll need to buy one second-hand, just posted on Freecycle on the off-chance.

clumsymum Have you tried Donninghton Sunday Market, they have loads of 'new' bikes at second hand prices, often with just small paint scratches or ones which are grubby from being display models

YANBU -

I don't go on my freecycle much anymore becuause it's full of the same old requests for wii's and dsi's.

I've just seen a wanted post on FC literally like this "Baby things wanted. \i want baby things, thank you".

I've given away a ton of really good stuff on there, posted a wanted thread once asking for 10 or so red house bricks....nothing. No replies!

Honestly, such is my luck!!

I don't mind though, it's all in the spirit of not filling up landfill, not karma.

I saw a message recently along the lines of - "Last week I got my daughter a violin from here. Can someone teach my daughter now. You know what it's like when you have little money and she so wants violin lessons"

Do people work for nothing these days ? I understand the concept of donating unwanted goods - but services??

Unreal!

Because when I was little, everything I wanted I got. No matter if my mother had to beg for it....NOT!

What happened to the response "no, we can't afford it"?