Comments on: On Recycling And Moving Home

By: Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:37:47 +0000

PS: Elli, I’ve just looked at your website. Now I know what your profession is, no wonder you know about this subject! I hope your business is going well.

By: Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:21:55 +0000

Hi Ellie,

Welcome here and thanks for commenting. You’re certainly right about clutter! Even with being in a much smaller house, it’s surprised me how much we’ve got rid of.

As for the Internet, yes indeed, although I truly wish Freecycle wouldn’t insist on every email being moderated. It slows down the system. They could ban someone retrospectively for abuse.

By: Elli D.

Elli D. — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:40:12 +0000

People only find out how much (pretty useless) stuff they have when they are moving. It is amazing of you that you want to give what you don’t need anymore to someone. Most of the people simply throw it away without a second thought. Charity shops came to my mind, too, when I wanted to give you an advice but since you say you have bad experience, I don’t really know. Internet always saves the situation, though.

By: Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:05:46 +0000

May well be! It was the British Heart Foundation who got fussy with us, as I recall.

By: pamjw

pamjw — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:56:49 +0000

They’re obviously not so fussy here! Took some very well loved book cases that they saw next to the stuff they’d come to get. Maybe says a lot about different areas of the country…

By: Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:47:07 +0000

Great story about Freecycle, Pam. As for the three bedrooms, that’s allowed if there’s a study, ‘if desired’, CPD says. Desired by which party, the wording doesn’t make clear. However, we had not wanted to be pretentious about the manse as some ministers we’ve known have been.

By: PamBG

PamBG — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:11:24 +0000

Rather “interesting” that one circuit apparently doesn’t think it’s necessary to provide the minimum four bedrooms. I will say no more.

We actually got rid of our living room suite in a roundabout way via freecycle. I actually felt a bit guilty because it was over 20 years old and incredibly ratty. But a woman who took our dryer (can’t take big electrical appliances to the US!) had an uncle who was getting a divorce and needed furniture. He was crying when we gave him our living room furniture, so we didn’t feel so guilty after all. And then we got my parents’ living room suite from *their* last move.

By: Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:25:57 +0000

Thanks for the good wishes, Pam. We had bad experiences of charity shops when leaving the last circuit: anything less than perfection and they didn’t want to touch it. And that was in an inner city area, not the largely middle class professional area we’re departing from this time!

By: pamjw

pamjw — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:15:31 +0000

Many charity shops also take furniture now, and they will collect it.

I won’t begin to scare you with our experiences of removal firms moving manses, but it makes hiring a transit and lugging it all yourself look very attractive!!

Hope the move all goes well