OT: Anyone need a kitchen?

How rude.

You wish!

Somebody has just spent all their cash on 101 engines and saab parts and my kitchen is starting to look a bit old and mismatched....

send me some pics please nige! email address will work if you take out the obvious spamtrap bit.

I'm not sure im convinced by blue and pear though and dont have much time at the mo :(

Try your local "freecycle" list, they're pretty good for getting rid of that kind of thing. Just make sure you unsubscribe straight afterwards or you'll end up getting tempted by all sorts of stuff from it!

I am constantly amazed at the useless old tat that I can offload to pikeys :-)

Or just opt out of the mailing lists.

I got rid of 17 computers from my loft, a fire grate, an old black and decker workmate with a warped top, and shitloads of other stuff, great! Mind you I did pick up two dishwashers, a camping table, a video recorder, a collection of Winston Churchill's books on the war, a very nice 60s travel trunk and a load of other stuff.. So much for clearing the house out!

Prob is that stuff goes so damned fast, if you want to get stuff off the lists you've got to be on the website all the time.. Not a problem if you're trying to get rid of things though.

The longest I have waited for a request is 34 minutes!

The thing that does irritate though is that I always post a "TAKEN" message, yet for days afterwards I still get emailed asking if it's still available.

I didn't manage to get rid of four minidisc racks so not everything goes sadly. Might try again.

On my local list someone's just offloaded live *silkworms*, as in live bugs you get silk from! Bloody Dorset's full of weirdo types.

All the local dole-bludgers sit on FreeCycle all day snapping up the decent stuff.

I've seen them snap up stuff they wouldn't have the slightest clue about and certainly wouldn't have a use for it.

Mind you, it's worth staying subscribed for the comedy wanted posts.

But enough clue to take to the local boot sale and flog... One of our local freecycle/share lists has just introduced a rule to try and stop people taking stuff to flog. The "taken" posts should now include who took the item(s).

On or around Sun, 9 Sep 2007 14:34:08 +0100, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

Witham SV are selling some sankey field kitchens... now, if you register the disco as a haulage tractor you can tow 2 trailers, weld a hitch up to the back of the filed kitchen for the caravan...

now yer talking! Roadtrain!

Wanted: Laptop - must have dual core processor and DVD writer

In article , Dr Zoidberg wrote: [Snip]

We've had people asking for PS3s and HD LCD TV sets on our local list!

If you was closer to norwich i'd come up with me horsebox and have it all cos we're about to gut ours..

Z®

I can see the reasoning behind this, and it has irritated me in the past to be emailed with exactly the same wording by the same person several times in quick succession as I list items. When this happens I just ignore them and give the stuff to the *next* person to ask.

On the other hand, playing devil's advocate here... so what if they do flog it? If I had the time and could be bothered, *I* could flog some of the old tat I give away on FC. If the primary goals of FC are to stop stuff going to landfill and re-use it, you could say that flogging it on achieves exactly that.

think you need a showmans licence to do that though....

-- "For those who are missing Blair - aim more carefully."

To reply direct rot13 me

bURRt the 101 Camper

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dan White" saying something like:

I find that slightly irritating too. A better way of arranging the postings (or allowing a title edit) would result in the 'offered' and 'taken' messages being stuck together.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember ZoNeHeaD® saying something like:

For saving the price of a kitchen, it's worth a few quid in diesel, surely?