Can I have x for free?

[PlinkiePlonk]

I understand that times are tough, and it’s up to the individual who responds to have said yes. However, is it just me or are people getting more extravagant in what they might reasonable expect someone to gift ‘for free!’

I have just spotted in a group that someone is wondering if anyone can ‘gift’ them 100 block paving slabs for their drive. Maybe it’s just me but that seems like a lot to feel you can just commandeer.

What is the most expensive thing you have seen people try and blag that has made you think: ‘really?!’ Or is it just me being grumpy.

I was once FB friends with someone who did pole dancing for fitness and set up a just giving (or similar) page to find a course so that she could become and instructor.

The SAME EVENING she posted on FB that she’d booked a trip to London to see a musical with her small daughter.

She could have funded the course with the money the hotel, transport and tickets would cost!

She was up to £300 by the time I deleted her 😵

Fund not find

I sold a lamp on Facebook marketplace and when the woman turned up to collect, she had a full sob story abot her friend fleeing domestic violence and asked outright if I could provide it, and more items, for free. She put her head around the door and pointed to a few things she could do with. I don’t think so!!!!

Well people's old slabs are quite regularly up for free collection on SM. No tips to take them to. So no harm in asking since they would otherwise be getting binnned.

Scabs

@Thisismytimetoshine I agree! After that experience I'm donating more and more to save myself the hassle.

I saw one recently where someone said her baby was due a week later and she wanted a few things including a pram. I thought she was leaving the requests a little late, as the baby could have been born by then (although she had an offer of a pram that fell through).

I was amused to see that someone had put Amazon in the response.

i gave regularly stuff away on gumtree a few years ago - it was always the same bloody woman that turned up for stuff, with increasingly more elaborate mind boggling excuses as to why she needed the item.
I'd have been less pissed off if she'd been honest and said she was flogging stuff on ebay or car boot sales.
I stopped offering stuff.