Sun 19 Feb 2006
Hey, have any of you Freecycled? We have a bunch of times now and it is always facinating. Once we were giving away a bunch of clothes and pots and pans and the cutest couple came to our door. They were very nice and very clean and any moment I thought they would either tell me about Jesus’ Plan For My Life or the Swingers Club they had just joined. (no , really, they were Stepford meet Trinity Western.
The crazy part really is always the same. We post something on the service and moments later the phone starts ringing. Got Stuff? Poof! It’s gone!
You have to deal with the randomness. Today we had a nice lady come to the door who just wanted to take away some ‘new’ clothes. We also had a character from the Sin City movie take away an old paper shredder. Bree hid in the back of the apartment while I handed over the loot. Once we had a lady and her kids pick some stuff up and the kid thought we were millionares or something. He just kept saying “You have a laptop! Cool!” or “Wow! Rechargable Batteries! Look Mom! They got batteries!Plugged into the wall!”
As a rule, I think this is ok. Citizens are generally a force for good and common precautions can ensure a favourable result. The whole thing makes my faith-in-humanity-meter max out.
All power to the Freecycle.
I should look into this myself… I’m trying to downsize my loot, and there’s a lot of stuff that’s usable but I’m never going to touch again. However, I might be wary of strangers coming to my apartment. Perhaps I should schedule a guy friend to be here at the same time.
Hey honey,
Now that freecycling is your religion, will you come to my attic and freecycle the lego and GI Joe’s I have left from your childhood?!
(Not to mention the hundreds of cub badges not yet sewn on to your blanket!)
Jocelyn: HEY! you have to keep the lego!