Recently we moved about 30 miles away, from a podunk nowhere college town into the North end of a town that could actually be called a "city" even though there isn't much on the way of PIB nightlife.
When arranging for people to come pick stuff up for miscellaneous furniture that we had accumulated that we no longer needed, and needed to get rid of because we were downsizing to a 2-bedroom apartment instead of a 3-bedroom house with a garage, there was one person in particular that gave a response of "oh I didn't realize it was so big" when the dimensions were in the freecycle posting in the first place.
Another person ended up taking a mattress for a bed and was going to pick up the rest and then my wife got an email back that "my husband says we can't take the bed frame, so do you want me to bring the mattress back?" So we tell her yes because there is a little girl in line next for it that will put it to use. We then hear back in about a day or two's time that "a skunk wandered by a sprayed on the mattress so we won't be bringing it back." BULL! Skunks don't just randomly spray on things. If you were saying you were just going to keep the damn thing just be honest.
Good luck with the purge...
I'm just glad that I think I have gotten my two EE's out of the picture. One from high school; and one shortly after high school where there were awful problems of an abusive step-father and running away from home to escape it and then finding someone online and leaving me for him without telling me in person there was a problem with our relationship.
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I concur with your freecycle woes
Date: 2007-08-03 09:31 pm (UTC)When arranging for people to come pick stuff up for miscellaneous furniture that we had accumulated that we no longer needed, and needed to get rid of because we were downsizing to a 2-bedroom apartment instead of a 3-bedroom house with a garage, there was one person in particular that gave a response of "oh I didn't realize it was so big" when the dimensions were in the freecycle posting in the first place.
Another person ended up taking a mattress for a bed and was going to pick up the rest and then my wife got an email back that "my husband says we can't take the bed frame, so do you want me to bring the mattress back?" So we tell her yes because there is a little girl in line next for it that will put it to use. We then hear back in about a day or two's time that "a skunk wandered by a sprayed on the mattress so we won't be bringing it back." BULL! Skunks don't just randomly spray on things. If you were saying you were just going to keep the damn thing just be honest.
Good luck with the purge...
I'm just glad that I think I have gotten my two EE's out of the picture. One from high school; and one shortly after high school where there were awful problems of an abusive step-father and running away from home to escape it and then finding someone online and leaving me for him without telling me in person there was a problem with our relationship.