WANTED ; DS and Ben 10 stuff

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'My boys have gone mad for it and wornt play wi there other toys now'

Fecking freecycle

email to see if you can have all "there other toys", which they clearly don't need

Whats this got to do with aibu?

Someone on ours wants a 'potable'tv

Someone was offering some cat bowels on freecycle the other week. Couldn't think of a use for them though.

I don't really understand. If you had Ben 10 toys that you didn't want, why not give them to someone on freecycle ?

My first choice would be for them to go to a charity shop, or to a school fair, but, even then they might not get sold. So what's the problem, as long as they don't get binned ?

Am not on freecyle by the way, so am not clear on whether it's simply about need. or whether it's about "deservedness"

well if you are asking for Nintendo DS things and Ben 10 things, and your children won't play with anything else you have larger problems surely.

It's just one in a long line of 'wants' that annoy the hell out of me

I am sort of playing devils advocate here, but really, if the general idea is to avoid waste, then what's the problem ?

After all - you have a choice to give your stuff to a more deserving cause, or even sell it. Doesn't freecycle help the offerers just as much, by them not having to take their stuff anywhere ?

Is the idea that the stuff on offer is really not in saleable condition, then ?

No - I'm not a better person !

Actually - i would find the Ben 10, and DS thing cheeky. Partly because We don't have a DS - I consider them to be an expensive luxury. So I can see how it's against the philosophy of freecycle. But then you could argue bikes and computers are also luxuries....

Anyhoo - where I am, I can get rid of most stuff by putting it outside on the pavement. That way I don't have to worry about who is taking it.

Friend of mine advertised a load of baby stuff on there, was contacted by someone who said she was pregnant, wanting the lot of it. When asked her due date, it transpired that it was nearly 10 months away... [erm]

No, strangely, I am in London

lol at "cat bowels". I would rather have those in the house than the Ben 10 stuff actually.

freecycle won't let me join

i need a bunkbed frame i know someones got one i just know it

but they won't let me join why?

i also have garden toys to give away but will have to take them to a charity shop..

btw why is this in aibu?

I think of our local freecycle as an online 'Swap Shop' (minus Noel Edmonds). We got two kittens from a lady on Thursday. Today we're giving her our old DVD player.
Agree some people ask for outrageous things - like a car, xbox 360, Playstation3 (why would anyone be giving stuff like that away when there's ebay?). On the other hand if you're replacing a washer/freezer/tv and the old one is still in good nick I think Freecycle is perfect

Sorry to aibu by stealth

But the same freecycler posted a 'want' for her friend who was moving out of a womens refuge.

I offered our 28inch (old boxy) tv and she replied she'd prefer flatscreen.

Chancers.

yanbu! how cheeky

(at first i thought someone wanted a son! ds)

we've had requests on ours for a tassimo, a vespa, an applemac. They aren't exactly something you would send to landfill!

I love freegle, but some people are jsut cheeky.

I've never used it (although my friend's dad found us a microwave on there as he remembered we didn't have one!)

We're greedy, if we were getting rid of anything we'd always try and sell it first, if that didn't work then it'd go to a charity shop so it benefits others too.

Didn't realise you could actually request stuff on there, LOL at some of the demands you've all seen!

My dad posted a Kenwood mini-kitchen on there the yesterday, clearly stated that this was used for cooking on while their kitchen was being refitted and was powered by mains 240v electricity. First response is someone asking if it was a toy because her 'son would love it'. Hope it wasn't a mumsnetter. I PMSL at the thought of my parents using a Fisher Price kitchen whilst their actual kitchen was being done.

There was also an ad yesterday for 'receipts for jam' - long-winded post about how she was interested in making her own jam and wanted some receipts. I was trying to work out what she was going to do with the receipts, some kind of crazy jam fraud where she makes her own jam and then takes it back to the shop for a refund?! Then it suddenly dawned of me that the post was asking for recipes.

Never been on Freecycle before yesterday, I think I'm going to have to get into it.