Okay, we are officially weird. A has gone into a Freecycling frenzy, and here are two recent listings:
OFFER: Four X-ray films of a cat
Well, these are four X-ray films of a cat. Perhaps you are an extremely creative person and want these for a project, or you want to play a practical joke on your doctor?
OFFER: Inflatable hot pink plastic poodle
Well, this is a multi-use item: scares cats and creeps out my 23-year-old sister. Perhaps it’s the festive bow and red eyes; perhaps it’s the haunting wheezing it makes when it’s squeezed. Has a loop on top for hanging as a…decorative item. Or for Halloween.
I saw the post about X-rays and thought to myself - gee, some people will give anything away!
Freecylce is great, and I’d love to do it more, but I find there’s probably 10,000 different items in our house that we could freecycle, and more come in every day. Some things I just would never think of to freecycle until I see a post for them. I’m sure we throw out a lot of things that have appeared. Once in a while there are some really nice and useful things on Freecycle, but I often find that if you don’t send the poster an email within minutes of a post then someone else probably has beat you to the punch…