On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:28:33 UTC, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

We recently had to get rid of a couple of thousands of books - hard backs,
paper backs, all sorts. We cleared the shelves a few years ago, the family
had first pick of them. Then friends. Then we stored them, trying all sorts
of outlets including an overseas charity which pleaded in its advertising
that it wanted *any* book for schools which had none.

They came and took none, all ours were over ten years old. The fact that
there were many children's and adult classics, fiction and non fiction, in
good condition, didn't matter, they were 'out of date'.

Had the same trouble with a local charity shop who said they'd take any
books. Humped in eight large boxes and was told to take them away again.

Luckily the Cancer Relief shop took them all..!

Then there are all the magazines ... not Woman's Own or Hello before anyone
suggests it. When I was a child I loved reading my godfather's bound
collections of C19th Punch. I now have decades of Punch mags from the 1950s
on but no-one seems to want them. It's such a shame.

They are more difficult. However, I'm doing my bit...! I've just been
offered (and accepted) a practically continuous run of Analog magazine,
starting in the 1940s...

--
The information contained in this post is copyright the
poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by
Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk

T i m wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:19:41 +0100, "Gordon Hudson"
wrote:


wrote in message
ups.com...
Yeah - the mods can be tin gods (not me of course). Some "ambitious"
wanted's are a bit of a nuisance, but when they learn a new porsche
isn't going to happen most start behaving.

Or pelple use it toi stock their ebay shops.
Yes, that does actually happen.

And do we actually care *what* they do with the stuff as long as:

1) We get rid of it

2) It doesn't end up in landfill?

amen

Ian Stirling wrote:
wrote:
Thoroughly recommended (I run the West Norfolk group).

Use www.freecycle.org to find your local group.

Alas - it has the same problem that ebay did some time ago.
In ebays case, it's finally got past it to some degree - for example,
I can usually find 1 fridge within 25 miles.
(Glenrothes, Fife).
Freecycle isn't quite there yet.

to be fair, to freecycle *FIFE* isn't quite /anywhere/

The message
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

We recently had to get rid of a couple of thousands of books - hard backs,
paper backs, all sorts. We cleared the shelves a few years ago, the family
had first pick of them. Then friends. Then we stored them, trying all sorts
of outlets including an overseas charity which pleaded in its advertising
that it wanted *any* book for schools which had none.

And yet a friend of mine was bouncing with joy when she collected 300+
"Golden age" SF books from a FreeCycler.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

The message
from "VisionSet" contains these words:

Nah, ChavCycle is the way to go. No need for any internet/phone
arrangements, you just pop the stuff in your garden, and away it goes.

Years ago I tried to throw away a set of 8" floppy drives in Warren
Street. I put 'em out with the rubbish, but before the truck came
someone had 'em. Then dropped 'em a few yards up the road. Then someone
else picked 'em up and carried them a bit further. This went on for
nearly a week with a sort of drunkard's walk bringing them closer then
further away till they finally disappeared.

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:59:19 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Of course this might just be the vast London group.

It sounds like it, I've given away a load of stuff, which was always
collected on time without problems.

Picked up a nice solid wood kitchen table, looks great in the garage with a
vice fixed to it

Steve

"Owain" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:
"VisionSet" wrote
Nah, ChavCycle is the way to go. No need for any internet/phone
arrangements, you just pop the stuff in your garden, and away it goes.

I wish the local council could do something like that regularly, say
every Wednesday morning with a big lorry, take away all the stuff I put
out for chavcycle ...


Ours do, but regularly = yearly.

--
Mike W

"Guy King" wrote in message
...
The message
from "VisionSet" contains these words:

Nah, ChavCycle is the way to go. No need for any internet/phone
arrangements, you just pop the stuff in your garden, and away it goes.

Years ago I tried to throw away a set of 8" floppy drives in Warren
Street. I put 'em out with the rubbish, but before the truck came
someone had 'em. Then dropped 'em a few yards up the road. Then someone
else picked 'em up and carried them a bit further. This went on for
nearly a week with a sort of drunkard's walk bringing them closer then
further away till they finally disappeared.


The most important thing is never combine ChavCycle with FreeCycle.
Otherwise, you end up recycling a lot of stuff you didn't intend.

--
Mike W

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
You will lose a great deal of time through time wasters who say they'll
turn up to collect but then don't. And answering e-mails from people
wanting something which they don't then bother replying to.

Of course this might just be the vast London group.

Nope. Human life, sadly examples everywhere. Best to get/give mobile
numbers as soon as possible in an email conversation (and not given on
the main list).


Still in my experience the effort is far outweighed by the spoils won
(offered and requested) on freecycle and stuff that I'm certain has gone
to better homes (and in one case a London Hospital!). Because I've done
so well out of it, I now go out of my way to help others on the list
(deliver things, do favours, pay post etc.)

What goes around comes around. I meet some interesting people and stick
two fingers to the council tip men who don't allow good usable rubbish
to be taken away from the council tip. I also take my privacy and safety
quite seriously, and folks *should* be careful - I now only make
personal meetings at train stations, not my front door.

The uk freecycle site deserves a mention http://uk.freecycle.org. If
more people read and abided by the rules, and didn't clog up the mail
list with personal rants and advertising, than it's very usable -
particulary if it's filtered into different mail folders on your machine
and you can handle 4,500 messages a month(!) as in the case of the
London group.

--
Adrian C

Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:45:24 UTC, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot"
wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:

Yes, it works OK. But in my local group (Canterbury)

*Perk*

*Waves at neighbour*

*looks up*

Herne Bay, to be more precise. Can't afford Canterbury; anyway, it's
full of people from work...

I've gone right off Canterbury in recent years. I'm in Ramsgate anyway - I
was waving from an upstairs window.

Si

"Guy King" wrote in message
...
The message
from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

We recently had to get rid of a couple of thousands of books - hard
backs,
paper backs, all sorts. We cleared the shelves a few years ago, the
family
had first pick of them. Then friends. Then we stored them, trying all
sorts
of outlets including an overseas charity which pleaded in its advertising
that it wanted *any* book for schools which had none.

And yet a friend of mine was bouncing with joy when she collected 300+
"Golden age" SF books from a FreeCycler.

There were no SF books in our ex-collection, only Spouse reads them, usually
given to him by an internet friend and he passes them to a son. No idea
where they go from there, possibly to his son then students ... SF doesn't
seem to be a problem. Physics books do. As everyone knows, physics changes.

Hrumph.

Mary

--
Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

"Adrian C" wrote in message
...
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
You will lose a great deal of time through time wasters who say they'll
turn up to collect but then don't. And answering e-mails from people
wanting something which they don't then bother replying to.



Still in my experience the effort is far outweighed by the spoils won
(offered and requested) on freecycle and stuff that I'm certain has gone
to better homes (and in one case a London Hospital!).

My first offer was a huge carrier bag full of used wine bottle corks. We'd
saved them for years, they represented a lot of money and liver damage but
we couldn't bear to throw them away.

We had three people who wanted them. We're now on our second bag. Having
made a contact we don't need freecycle for that at least..

Mary

"Owain" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:
"VisionSet" wrote
Nah, ChavCycle is the way to go. No need for any internet/phone
arrangements, you just pop the stuff in your garden, and away it goes.

I wish the local council could do something like that regularly, say every
Wednesday morning with a big lorry, take away all the stuff I put out for
chavcycle ...

Doesn't work round here :-(

That's because chavs don't wanna get their Nikees dirtied with chook
droppings innit.

Ner, the chooks are in the back, the gate to that is locked.

Hey - we have chicks :-)

Awwwwwwww .... !

Blue x white Croad Langshan banties.

Mary

Owain

In message , Mary Fisher
writes

"T i m" wrote in message
.. .

...
only to find a volunteer emptying bags of paperbacks into a huge wheeled
bin
but not for recycling but for landfill. When I questioned him about this
he
said it was not worth sorting through the hundreds of paperbacks they
received each week! It seems the same fate awaited hundreds of hardback
books also.

Hmm, that's not right .. the place I use take clothes and if they
aren't considered good enough to pass on *as* clothes they get money
for tham as 'fabric' .. I would have though the same would go for
books .. paper?

We recently had to get rid of a couple of thousands of books - hard backs,
paper backs, all sorts. We cleared the shelves a few years ago, the family
had first pick of them. Then friends. Then we stored them, trying all sorts
of outlets including an overseas charity which pleaded in its advertising
that it wanted *any* book for schools which had none.

They came and took none, all ours were over ten years old. The fact that
there were many children's and adult classics, fiction and non fiction, in
good condition, didn't matter, they were 'out of date'.

In desperation we tried a pulping place in the city. They said they'd
collect them, it would cost us £10. In the end we took them there - after
going through them yet again and hoiking some out. We're now reading fiction
again but there'll come a time when they have to go.

The reason we had to make room was to accommodate the books we acquired
which we DO use. We still have about 3,000 ...

Then there are all the magazines ... not Woman's Own or Hello before anyone
suggests it. When I was a child I loved reading my godfather's bound
collections of C19th Punch. I now have decades of Punch mags from the 1950s
on but no-one seems to want them. It's such a shame.

Much as I'd love them ...

I'm sure I have more junk and books that you


--
geoff

"T i m" wrote in message
...
On 16 May 2006 20:24:46 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:56:27 UTC, "." wrote:

Many think the 'wanted's' are good because they sometimes make you
think of getting rid of something that you hadn't though would be
recyclable .. so they can be ok in that sense?

And if you don't ask you don't get? (I havent asked yet) ;-)

Wanted: Stuff for my allotment.
Timber offcuts to make raised beds.
Glass for making Cloche and cold frames.
Plastic pots for my seedlings.

All exactly the sort of stuff which goes to landfill, because nobody wants
it.
I got enough to help my neighbour with his allotment, within two weeks.

Depends on the people in the area.

Dave