Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Don't get me wrong I think Haringey Freecycle is great.........
..........but it seems to me to be becoming increasingly Haringey Gimme. I don't see anything wrong with people fishing for things they need in the hope that something's going spare, but the requests seem to be getting more expansive and more picky. Witness this one today:
WANTED: Please help! Need many household items ASAP.
Sun Jul 6, 2008 1:54 am (PDT)
Hello
We have just bought our new home, and have nothing in it as yet, as
starting afresh, we would so apreciate the following items and can collect.
Kitchen: Kettle, Toaster, FRIGDE/ freezer, microwave, utensils, plates
etc, pots and pans, WASHING MACHINE, hoover. The kitchen has stainless
steel units, so matching stuff would be fab!
Sitting Room:large sofa, TV, DVD, rugs, curtains or clean nets, etc.
Bedrooms: Double and single bed, duvets/pillows, wardrobe, lamps,
bedside tables, chest of drawers (pine pref),
Bathroom:Towels bath mats etc.
And anything I might have missed.
We would so appreciate any help given to us by freecyclers, this is our first home together :)
This is not atypical. Maybe it's my age, but the tone, the extensiveness of the list and the slight fussiness about specification wind me up. Am I just becoming a Meldrew?
WANTED: Please help! Need many household items ASAP.
Sun Jul 6, 2008 1:54 am (PDT)
Hello
We have just bought our new home, and have nothing in it as yet, as
starting afresh, we would so apreciate the following items and can collect.
Kitchen: Kettle, Toaster, FRIGDE/ freezer, microwave, utensils, plates
etc, pots and pans, WASHING MACHINE, hoover. The kitchen has stainless
steel units, so matching stuff would be fab!
Sitting Room:large sofa, TV, DVD, rugs, curtains or clean nets, etc.
Bedrooms: Double and single bed, duvets/pillows, wardrobe, lamps,
bedside tables, chest of drawers (pine pref),
Bathroom:Towels bath mats etc.
And anything I might have missed.
We would so appreciate any help given to us by freecyclers, this is our first home together :)
This is not atypical. Maybe it's my age, but the tone, the extensiveness of the list and the slight fussiness about specification wind me up. Am I just becoming a Meldrew?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Shades of Meldrew I'd say. Mere speculation of course, but perhaps having no doubt just mortgaged themselves up to the hilt, they may not wish to put themselves in debt further furnishing the place so are trying their luck on Freecycle. When we rented our first unfurnished place I hadn't a bean so we begged and raided family and friends to get stuff and haunted charity shops for weeks to get crockery etc. If Freecycle had existed, I would no doubt have been on that constantly as well. As to being specific about type, well maybe a bit cheeky, but sometimes if you don't ask you don't get.
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Permalink Reply by rahman on
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Oh dear. I must be a 28 year old meldrew.... if it were me (which it very well could be) I would just look for ads of things that I wanted and try and get those instead of inviting suitable offers!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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We slept in sleeping bags on the floor of our very own lovely new flat for three months when we first bought it. Yes... that deposit takes EVERYTHING you have.
Hugh.... I don't think you're being Victor Meldrew like at all. It's cheeky... and that sometimes gets a punch in the face.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It's the sheer size of the list and then to specify
"The kitchen has stainless steel units, so matching stuff would be fab!"
If you ask for freebies, surely you're happy with what you get - to try get designer heaven thrown in as well....to want your kettle matching your units! Harumph!
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'I don't beliiiive it'
They're not saying that they would turn it down if it wasn't matching, just trying their luck. I can't believe I'm defending two total strangers but maybe we shouldn't judge people from a posting as sometimes one might come across in a way unintended.
I'd offer 'em a horrible chest of drawers I've got but it's not pine so maybe not...send them a copy of the Argos catalogue, Victor
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Permalink Reply by Pippa on
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Ha! I think it's cheeky...
i believe in Freecycle karma...you have to GIVE before you receive
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I give stuff away fairly frequently and the receipients do seem to really need what I would otherwise dump. The exeception to this was when I gave away a vacuum cleaner about a year ago. The woman who claimed it turned up in a brand spanking new 4X4 which I thought was a bit rich!
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Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on
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when me and former husband had first home - flat in Archway..lots of years ago we used packing cases and bricks and a mattress on the floor.................and old aluminium pots and plates from Oxfam...so nothing.....................er ..'matching' .....then...
Mrs Meldrew
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