Please could one of you give me a lap top and a 32" flatscreen please?

[Honeydragon]

Now the laptop can be anything as long is has wifi so I can skype and is good condition.

And the 32" flatscreen tv must be suitable for the playroom.

Seriously though, why do they let these people on Freecycle?

Every so often my group posts a reminder of rules. Someone auto-replied to this with 'id love this if available when can i pick up ta x'

Today we got:

"I need a Wardrobe H180,W100,D60 or H170,W115,D60 except this dimensions
wardrob wont fit in my room"

There are also people asking for 10-man tents, as in, the £400 type.

Well this one was apprently "flat backed" maybe the playroom in question has curvy walls!

Or maybe its actually a 32 inch tv that can withstand 8 rambuntious children using it as a pinata (sp?)

I justr have to say on page 4 someone said one about the porta toilet they wanted for the caravan - this was so funny i have laughed for 32 minutes and dh was quite worried aboutme - it was fecking priceless thanks so much

Dazzlingdeborahhrose It was you, i have reposted it and read it again and now actually weed a bit...
My favourite ever freecycle request (apart from "does anyone have a mini they no longer use" Yes people they meant car not skirt) was. "Does anyone have a chemical toilet they no longer want. Friends lent us their caravan for a holiday but it doesn't have a loo so we'd like to fit one for them as a thank you" Woah - as a thank you to your friends you would like to install a second hand (used) chemical toilet that you picked up for free and without asking them whether they actually want one. Can you imagine the conversation? "We thought about wine and chocolates but in the end decided on fitting a used chemical toilet - ta da!!!!

Sadly our freecycle gets more requests than offers. Some are just hyterical though. Who really does have a spare Wii or iPhone laying around unused?
I really need a washing machine, currently I am doing all the stuff by hand, I haven't been offered one though and couldn't collect it anyway. Car is broke. there's an idea, I'll ask for a new one that is big enough to collect my washing machine if I am ever offered one.

aaah Kittens, your not near me or you could've used mine

Just logged on here specially this evening to post this offer that is on our local Freecycle tonight:

Offer - Black Hold Up Stockings

I have one pair of gloss black hold ups - 10 denier size small (4ft 10-5ft 3). Lace tops.
Collection any time today or message me with day/time. Thanks

AIBU to be shuddering at the thought of some creepy bloke greasily hoping for lots of petite nubile women coming scampering to his door desperate for hold up stockings?

Urgh urgh and thrice urgh

Surely it would be the other way around?

SOme of the people on this thread are incredibly ignorant of other people's very real needs.

I used to be homeless. Had freecycle existed, I'd have posted an advert saying something like "WANTED: Fridge, kettle, steriliser, cot, double mattress, curtains, cooker, potsand pans and cutlery."

I had £70 to last me two weeks and I was 6 months pregnant. I was not in receipt of benefits, so a budgeting loan was not an option. And people do move in together and ditch the lower quality items out of their combined possessions.My dad and his girlfriend did it (unfortunately not when I needed it!)

As it was, I took on double shifts at work where meals were free and slept in my coat on the floor.

I offered 3 chests of drawers a couple of weeks ago.

Reply?
Can i have the chest a draws?

I ruled them out for bad spelling. :o

TBH colditz, I don't thinkpeople are being ignorant of the real needs of others, just ripping the piss out of the mickey takers.
I have no benefits and £30 to last me for two weeks. Out of that I need two bus passes which will total 25, leaving me a fiver for food.

colditz I had an email from someone asking for some things that I offered. He explained that they were just starting out again after some messy times and would take anything.

I sorted out a bunch of kitchen and bedding items for them as we have far too much of everything and duplicate items. I know they live locally, but no idea where or what they look like. I left the stuff outside in the alley for him to collect when suited. Happy to think I have helped someone who genuinely needed it.

If that person had contacted me and said they would only take the coffee machine and massive tv (not that I had a massive tv to donate) then I wouldnt have been so happy to help. If you genuinely NEED something and dont have another choice Freecycle is a brilliant place. If you want a 42" plasma screen tv then people should work for it, same as the rest of us have to!

I've read through the thread and people have mentioned how good freecycle is if your moving into housing from a difficult situation. We get plenty lists like that on our local Fb and freecycle, the genuine ones dont specify what colour 3 piece suite they will accept, when I was in that situation I was just damn grateful to not have to sit on the floor. It's unfair to say people are ignorant when the thread is made up ignitions deliberately pointing out the grasping ones like "anything by Apple", I used to litho print, bet if I offered that particular person my 14 year old Mac, she'd tell me to fuck off. That's why it went to a good home as I put it's spec on Freecycle and got taken by someone who could still used the software for their business.

Tonks - on our group, someone asked for Chester Draws..... I was almost compelled to email them!!!

Lots of piss takers though requesting i-phones/blackberry curves etc - honestly really upsets me as there are some lovely people on freecycle trying to do something nice

I too find it a piss take with some of things people ask for and on our site it is usually the same ones doing the asking.

Another thing that really cheeses me off though is when you ask when someone can collect something you are offering and then they don't show up. No email to say sorry I forgot etc. One person said they would collect the next day, and at about 8pm when they hadn't shown up I emailed asking if they were still coming. They said they hadn't turned the computor back on until now so hadn't read my reply to her saying that the next day was fine.
Why would you do that? If you were that keen to have it surely you would check emails frequently for a reply?

Have tried 3 times to give away 4 boxes of kids stuff and had no shows and I am hoping that tonight it will finally be picked up.

I never thought it would be so hard to give away free stuff !!

Someone on our local freecycle asked for a Quinny Zapp a while ago, including the colours they wanted. It wasn't even for them, but for her parents to have as they occasionally looked after the baby.

I advertised a computer table and gave all the measurements. A bloke emailed me and asked if it would fit in a Citroen Picasso, I'd have thought he'd have been the better judge of that!

tooimmature2bedumbledore

This is a glug glug jug

BeanaReana -actually I think that wanting a treadmill so you can stop walking when you need to is perfectly logical - if you go for a walk and have to stop you would still have to get home from wherever you've got to.

oo my former landlord had hundreds of glug glug jugs! I never knew they made a noise like that or it would have kept me amused for hours. Damn damn damn. What a wasted opportunity.

I have one that I'd forgotten - I've just unearthed it from the stuff in the loft that's been there ever since we moved here 20 years ago.

I don't understand why asking for white goods is so awful. People might have to move for all sorts of reasons and a fridge isn't a bizarre luxury or anything. I mean, you do need a fridge!

WiiUnfit

"Ethnic Baby Doll - required for childminding business"

This is a reasonable request. Ofsted pull you up on it if you don't have one (or so I heard from friends who are child minders.)

ensure - I don't think anyone has said it is

this one came up today, made me laugh

" OFFER: brother " it was a sewing machine but i had thoughts about a toddler sick of her brother in the summer holidays

WillowFae - Apologies, I stand corrected. From a non-childminding background it looked rather odd!