I'm astonished at what a small world it is sometimes. When I first started on a4a someone saw i was in Bournemouth and asked where. It turns out, our children attend the same school, in the same class, we know each other to speak to and our plots are on same part of lottie site. :o
As for Freecycle I sent email to the mods saying erm, don't you think the wanteds are a bit out of control? I was prompted by this post :
Wanted - Xbox 360 wireless handset-
The 360 is about £300 new so figured if you've bought one you may as well buy the flaming handset, is it likely someone bought it and then said, actually, just bung this in the shed?!
And this -Wanted -urgently-pine bed and wardrobe.
How can you urgently need a PINE bed? Needing a bed i understand but a pine one? You would like a pine one, but as you asking for it FREE, surely anything will do.
And finally this - Wanted - Laptop or pc. Must be flat screen pc though. Preferably under 2 years old.
Erm, not exactly in the spirit of keeping things out of landfill then?
So i said to mods, please may i post for an unwanted Golf GTI or a Faberge egg that someone no longer needs.
Their reply was, this used to bug us too, but wanteds are useful at keeping things out of landfill when it's a reasonable post. They feel it's self moderating- if no-one responds then they get nowt and people remember them. The only problem there is i can change my freecycle name as many times as i like so how do we know who's who? I also seem to be able to hop between names. I don't, but i could!
Ho hum. ;)