I just wanted to tell everyone a little about a service we’ve been using lately called Freecycle. With Freecycle you can advertise items which you are planning on putting out (i.e. old clothes, tv, dvd player etc) and allow other people to receive these items and benefit from them… after all why put something in the bin if someone else can use it?
The thing to remember with this service is that it is operated voluntarily by people within your local community and all the items listed must be offered for free, with no strings attached! If you want to offer your old couch because you have a new one arriving next week then you are free to do so, but you cannot ask for any compensation, finanical or otherwise and all offers are made on the assumption that the recipient collects the item unless other arrangements are agreed between yourselves.
We have received a number of items which we have benefitted from using this services, and equally we have re-offered these items or other items when we have had no further use for them.
With New Year just a couple of days away why not make it your New Years resolution to Freecycle your unwanted stuff before you throw it out.
It now seems to be every day we hear about further fuel price rises or expected increases in energy bills and with a lot of people (including myself) struggling to make ends meet we are having to re-evaluate our lifestyles to ensure we can make the payments.
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