Had the same trouble with a local charity shop who said they'd take any books. Humped in eight large boxes and was told to take them away again.
Luckily the Cancer Relief shop took them all..!
They are more difficult. However, I'm doing my bit...! I've just been offered (and accepted) a practically continuous run of Analog magazine, starting in the 1940s...
amen :)
to be fair, to freecycle *FIFE* isn't quite /anywhere/ :D
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And yet a friend of mine was bouncing with joy when she collected 300+ "Golden age" SF books from a FreeCycler.
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Years ago I tried to throw away a set of 8" floppy drives in Warren Street. I put 'em out with the rubbish, but before the truck came someone had 'em. Then dropped 'em a few yards up the road. Then someone else picked 'em up and carried them a bit further. This went on for nearly a week with a sort of drunkard's walk bringing them closer then further away till they finally disappeared.
I wish the local council could do something like that regularly, say every Wednesday morning with a big lorry, take away all the stuff I put out for chavcycle ...
That's because chavs don't wanna get their Nikees dirtied with chook droppings innit.
Owain
It sounds like it, I've given away a load of stuff, which was always collected on time without problems.
Picked up a nice solid wood kitchen table, looks great in the garage with a vice fixed to it :)
Steve
Ours do, but regularly = yearly.
-- Mike W
The most important thing is never combine ChavCycle with FreeCycle. Otherwise, you end up recycling a lot of stuff you didn't intend.
-- Mike W
Nope. Human life, sadly examples everywhere. Best to get/give mobile numbers as soon as possible in an email conversation (and not given on the main list).
Still in my experience the effort is far outweighed by the spoils won (offered and requested) on freecycle and stuff that I'm certain has gone to better homes (and in one case a London Hospital!). Because I've done so well out of it, I now go out of my way to help others on the list (deliver things, do favours, pay post etc.)
What goes around comes around. I meet some interesting people and stick two fingers to the council tip men who don't allow good usable rubbish to be taken away from the council tip. I also take my privacy and safety quite seriously, and folks *should* be careful - I now only make personal meetings at train stations, not my front door.
The uk freecycle site deserves a mention . If more people read and abided by the rules, and didn't clog up the mail list with personal rants and advertising, than it's very usable - particulary if it's filtered into different mail folders on your machine and you can handle 4,500 messages a month(!) as in the case of the London group.
I've gone right off Canterbury in recent years. I'm in Ramsgate anyway - I was waving from an upstairs window.
Si
There were no SF books in our ex-collection, only Spouse reads them, usually given to him by an internet friend and he passes them to a son. No idea where they go from there, possibly to his son then students ... SF doesn't seem to be a problem. Physics books do. As everyone knows, physics changes.
Hrumph.
Mary
My first offer was a huge carrier bag full of used wine bottle corks. We'd saved them for years, they represented a lot of money and liver damage but we couldn't bear to throw them away.
We had three people who wanted them. We're now on our second bag. Having made a contact we don't need freecycle for that at least..
Mary
Ner, the chooks are in the back, the gate to that is locked.
Hey - we have chicks :-)
Awwwwwwww .... !
Blue x white Croad Langshan banties.
Mary
Wanted: Stuff for my allotment. Timber offcuts to make raised beds. Glass for making Cloche and cold frames. Plastic pots for my seedlings.
All exactly the sort of stuff which goes to landfill, because nobody wants it. I got enough to help my neighbour with his allotment, within two weeks.
Depends on the people in the area.
Dave
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