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Interesting article about how to get rid of things, either by selling, swapping or giving away.

Includes Freecycle of course but also Gumtree, which appears to be a place to advertise your goods for free.  I'm thinking of giving it a go to advertise my horsebox (there are several on there already) since it's costing me money just sitting there in the stable yard :(
What would you do if you needed to move the horse though?
Can you rent them in an emergency.

I have been allowed in the Freecycle now (for some reason they refused me before but that group has disbanded and the new one don't know the other one refused me)

I haven't put anything on there yet though there are all sorts of warnings about not telling mad axemen your mummy is out , I wondered if I should say I will leave it in the bin in town, like Dr Who and Donna did with the Sonic Screwdriver and the Car Keys.
Yes, you can hire horseboxes but probably your best bet would be to ask some kind horsebox-owning person if they would mind giving a lift to a large and hairy passenger (guaranteed not to smoke or make dull conversation on the journey.)  On the whole, horsey people are kindly and will help out where they can.  When Clyde fell at a jump at Sudeley Show  :cry a few years ago before we had a horsebox, someone gave him a lift home (unfortunately he all but kicked the wall in despite bad leg and dung-ed copiously all over the trailer floor but that's another story.)

I wondered if I should say I will leave it in the bin in town, like Dr Who and Donna did with the Sonic Screwdriver and the Car Keys.


:lol  I've wondered that too, don't really want people coming to the house for their stuff.  Did you know there's already a thing along that lines you can do with Books, I forget what it's called now but I did join it and get emails every other day or so saying 'Psst!  someone has left a copy of The Time Traveller's Wife at Evesham Station' (for some reason it is very often the TTW.)
How would he have got home if he hadn't hurt his leg, would he have had to walk all the way. I suppose he must as they wouldn't let him on the bus or train, or in a taxi , would they. You were very cruel to poor Clyde.

The leaving things at stations idea sounds good, but I would fear it getting robbed before the real owner collected it, and then them emailing me for 6 months accusing me of being a time waster.

I haven't read TTW, it must be a rubbish book if people are always leaving that one.
It was the local show at Sudeley Castle and he walked there with a group of others.  Probably faked the fall to get a lift back. I can laugh now but it wasn't funny at the time because I thought he'd broken his leg and would have to be shot  :(  he got up and started to eat grass straight away though but on only three good legs.

Found this pic of Clyde with me at Sudeley on the day he hurt his leg.  Jay was a bit concussed and couldn't walk straight so I got the job of looking after C while we waited for the lift home.  Note he can't keep his eyes (or his nose) off the tin of Tango I'm holding - it was apple Tango  ;)


This is Bookcrossing - you get emails to say 'a copy of TTTW has been set free hidden under a park bench in Winchcombe' and off you go to see if it's still there.  Then you post to say you got it so everyone knows it's gone.  I've never actually done this you understand, but that seems to be how it works.
I like the idea of picking up a book but shudder at the thought of setting it free again. I'm too much of a squirrel where books are concerned.
I think the idea is to set free those books you could never live with.  The sort of book you picked up for a fling, a one-night stand, and felt tainted  the morning after!  Best to send it on its way soon as you can with an 'it's been lovely.  I'll call you sometime.'  ;)

I have some of those.  I bet the Da Vinci Code, for example, is regularly to be seen sitting on the bench at Evesham platform, probably next to The Lovely Bones and anything shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
I have been making extensive use of Freecycle to declutter the house as I'm selling it.   I know it's not the best time, but I've been offered a new job (with a 20% pay rise  :D ) and it's just a tad too far to travel.
In the last week I have glossed 9 doors, 2 windows and a loft hatch, painted the hall, stairs and kitchen (after the kitchen ceiling and 1 wall was plastered).   This weekend I have to get the scaffold in to paint the hall window, paint and paper the small bedroom, paper the bathroom and continue to declutter.
Phew, I'm exhausted  :bash , but I've to plant a couple of lavender bushes by the door to make the place more inviting!
ohhh well done on the job Patience   :thumbs  

I am sure you will make the place look nice, didn't you relay all the floors once by yourself? I was very admiring   :hug

It's no fun selling a house if it all drags on so here's wishing you good luck for a quick sale.
:clap at the new job and payrise, Pat.

Good work on the decorating. I feel quite faint at the thought of that much work!
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