Lovely stories from other freeglers!

We love your stories! It's great to hear why people freegle - and here are some recent tales from other freeglers. Be inspired - tell us your story, or get freegling! Tell us your story!  Give something   Find something  Useful From a freegler on What a useful website this is. I recently bought a house and the vendors had left lots of big pieces of furniture that the charity shops didn't want to take. This would have meant a skip job or trips to the tip, adding more to landfill. The items have been promised, with more still to sell. The site is very user friendly and I feel happy that someone is able to use furniture that still has life left in it. Thank you to your volunteers, for enabling this to happen. Treasured home made curtains and chair covers re-homed From a freegler on Lancaster Morecambe Freegle I helped the family of a dear departed friend clear her enormous house full of amazing stuff. I took down the gold brocade curtains and 6 matching chair covers that my friend had made. No one had the space or style for them. They were going to be tipped. I couldn't let such beautiful items made with my friend's love and dedication be discarded. I brought them home and washed them, then freegled them. The lady who took them was ecstatic. You'd have thought I'd given her the crown jewels.I was thrilled that they went to such an appreciative recipient. Better than the skip From a freegler on Carnforth Freegle Because of family circumstances, I have had to move house four times in 15 months. Most moves have involved downsizing. I hate the idea of usable, usually excellent-condition things my husband and I have lived with and loved for years, being thrown into a skip. I have been able to give most of these important things, from shelves to dog-crates, away - and usually (not always) to people I have been glad to meet and whose genuine need I have recognised. This has given me much pleasure. The avoidance of adding to the world's landfill problem has helped greatly in my changed circumstances. I have an heavenly garden From a freegler on Malvern-Hills-Freegle I'm am an avid gardener back in The Philippines but since moving in England our new home have small garden and no way of making a garden bed. I got loads of pots and plants and some old chair that I diy-ed and now I have the most colourful and vibrant potted garden! Because of it I'm now out of my anti depressant!!! I'm over the moon! What to do with outgrown life jackets! From a freegler on Oxford Freegle We used to have an Indian canoe that we used to take our 3 kids for rides up and down the Thames. When the kids became adults, their little life-jackets got relegated to a chest in the hall, where they were lonely, and gathered dust. But then I found Freegle, so I advertised the jackets, and they were picked up by a lovely gentleman who teaches children to fish. Unusually, the children that he works with are all blind, so they can only be on the river bank if they are wearing life jackets. What a wonderful use for our tiny little life jackets. I was absolutely delighted, and so were the fishermen! Hate throwing things in the rubbish bin that someone may find useful. From a freegler on Telford Freegle We have cleared out a flat for my mother in law and are now clearing out my mother's house. We take as much as we can to the charity shop, but some things we just know they will struggle with. We hate taking stuff to the general rubbish where we know it just ends up in landfill - so we freegle. That way people who really want something get to enjoy it, and the waste is prevented. Everyone wins! One good turn deserves another, or 'pay it forward'! From a freegler on North Down and Ards Peninsula Greencycle I was freegling a desk as having remarried we now had 2 desks in the 'computer room', and with grandchildren arriving I needed to convert this room and add bunk beds. These were duly delivered from Argos, but needed assembled. My friendly feegler arrived with his teenage son to pick up the desk, and on hearing my story, offered to build the bunks for me (2nd hubby developing dementia and sadly beyond his scope). Friendly freegler proceeded to teach his son how to build a set of bunks, and they did the job so well I had to contribute to the son's new hobby he was telling me about as he worked... learning the guitar I think... and his father offered to help in future with any similar jobs needing done! Thank you, Freegle! This mail was sent to vpsenthilcool01.wood@blogger.com. You are set to receive Freegle newsletters. You can change your settings by clicking here, or turn these newsletter emails off by emailing newslettersoff-624099@users.ilovefreegle.org Freegle is registered as a charity with HMRC (ref. XT32865) and is run by volunteers. Which is nice.