Messages In This Digest (11 Messages)
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- offer loveseat ( tacoma) From: tieshawilliams@rocketmail.com
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- Wanted: Golf Balls: Upper Tacoma From: handmashed
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- wanted bike rack puyallup area From: dorisjean40
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- OFFER: Furniture GIg Harbor Harborview and Peacock Hill Road edited From: angels_heart82
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- OFFER: mylar balloons (Fircrest) From: jctheot
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- WANTED Bed for a 6 year old boy! From: missladrica
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- WANTED microwave, north Tacoma From: missladrica
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- wanted: two dressers From: mckillopnicole
- 9.
- Wanted: Moving Boxes (Frederickson) From: parisandhannahmomma
- 10.
- ADMIN: Dear FreecycleAbby (or, "who gets my stuff?") From: dlw711a
- 11.
- OFFER: Laminate Desk (Lakebay/Key Peninsula Highway N) From: femeros73
Messages
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offer loveseat ( tacoma)
Posted by: "tieshawilliams@rocketmail.com" tieshawilliams@rocketmail.com tieshawilliams@rocketmail.com
Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:16 pm (PDT)
brown loveseat it reclines left side dips alittle need it gone asap
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Wanted: Golf Balls: Upper Tacoma
Posted by: "handmashed" handmashed@yahoo.com handmashed
Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:19 pm (PDT)
I need six white or light blue or light green or a mix of all three colors. Sounds kinda strange, but my chickens are near laying and some of them lay color eggs. The golf balls are "trainers" so they can be placed in the nests and the hens learn where to lay and sit for the real eggs.
Anyhow, it would be best if they were not cracked or damaged in any way.
Many Blessings,
deb
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wanted bike rack puyallup area
Posted by: "dorisjean40" dorisjean40@yahoo.com dorisjean40
Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:33 pm (PDT)
I need a bike rack that will fit my mountain bike and able to be put on to my toyota.
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OFFER: Furniture GIg Harbor Harborview and Peacock Hill Road edited
Posted by: "angels_heart82" charitycrafter@gmail.com angels_heart82
Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:42 pm (PDT)
EDIT: When you email Anita, please put your phone number in the email. Anita is having some kind of problem replying to the emails.
I am posting this for a friend who is moving and won't have room for all her
furniture. She needs to give these items away ASAP.
Anita
anita.latch@...
*Oval wood dining set, table with two leaves, four chairs with forest green
upholstery, one is a captains chair
* Early American china cabinet
* Four wood bookshelves
* Two dressers
* Kenmore 70 series washer and dryer
* 2 desks, small metal one, one wood-like material (heavy). "Better for garage
than living room."
Must be able to pick up
Anita
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OFFER: mylar balloons (Fircrest)
Posted by: "jctheot" jctheot@gmail.com jctheot
Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:21 pm (PDT)
I have 5 Mickey Mouse happy birthday mylar balloons leftover from my son's birthday party a few weeks ago. They should be able to be fully deflated & refilled with helium to be as good as new. They're very cute so I'd hate to just toss them. Porch pick-up either Thursday anytime or Friday morning.
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WANTED Bed for a 6 year old boy!
Posted by: "missladrica" missladrica@yahoo.com missladrica
Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:21 pm (PDT)
Family is in need of a bed for son, Thanks. North Tacoma
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WANTED microwave, north Tacoma
Posted by: "missladrica" missladrica@yahoo.com missladrica
Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:21 pm (PDT)
I am acting as a resource person to help a Large family in need of a microwave. Thanks Tacoma
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wanted: two dressers
Posted by: "mckillopnicole" mckillopnicole@yahoo.com mckillopnicole
Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:21 pm (PDT)
Hi I am in need of two dressers. The only prob is I do not drive and do not know anyone with a truck to help me. I know this is far fetched but if anyone has one or two dressers and can take them to my apt. I would be the most gratefull. I live in Tacoma near tacoma general hosp. Thank you so much for rading I hope you are haveing a fantastic day.
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Wanted: Moving Boxes (Frederickson)
Posted by: "parisandhannahmomma" parisandhannahmomma@hotmail.com parisandhannahmomma
Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:43 pm (PDT)
Anything will help.
Small and large boxes.
Willing to travel to tacoma, lakewood, puyallup, graham
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ADMIN: Dear FreecycleAbby (or, "who gets my stuff?")
Posted by: "dlw711a" dlw711@gmail.com dlw711a
Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:06 pm (PDT)
This wonderfully humorous piece was penned by
David Ruggiero / co-owner FreecycleSeattle.
He has given permission to share it.
_____________________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _
Subject: Dear FreecycleAbby (or, "who gets my stuff?")
[The text of the question is excerpted from mail we
received from a real, live FreecycleSeattle member.]
Dear FreecycleAbby:
I made my first four offers today on FreecycleSeattle.
Some of what I experienced after that:
-- Folks responding immediately to my OFFER just to be
the FIRST, but clearly not thinking about whether they
really wanted what I was offering - or even if it was
possible for them to pick it up.
-- Emails asking me questions that were already
clearly answered in my OFFERED posting.
-- More than one person emailed with no mention of
which item they were interested in - in either the
subject or the body of their message.
-- Another person actually asked me to ship the item
to him...out-of-state.
-- At least one email lecturing (actually, berating)
me about how I "advertised" and "sold" my items.
(Honestly, I did my best and I think my posts show
effort. And this being Freecycle, I didn't think
I was advertising or selling anything.)
-- And LOTS of people for whom the words "please" or
"thank you" don't seem to be part of the English
language. I don't expect someone to bow and scrape
before me. But I didn't really expect to be given
lots of orders and demands in response to my OFFER,
either.
I started today feeling good that I was doing
something positive. I ended the day in not the best of
moods.
signed, Cheerless in (Freecycle)Seattle
Dear Cheerless:
My, my, you try to do something good for the other
people and for the planet, and look what happens. Not
only are some people ungrateful, but they're downright
rude in the bargain. Wouldn't it be nice if you
could wave a magic wand and make all the thoughtless,
impolite, greedy, and generally clueless people go
away, and just give your stuff to the few who seem to
remember that you're offering a gift that they should
show just a teensy bit of gratitude for?
Well, you know what? You can.
You have an extraordinary power - as does everyone
else here, though they all seem to keep forgetting
about it. And that power is this: when you make an
OFFER, *you* get to choose who gets it. You and only
you. You _don't_ have to pick the person who's first
to reply after your offer's posted, or the one who's
the most insistent. You can wait and see all of what
comes into your Inbox for as long as you want to, and
then *you* get to choose one of them to take your
OFFER. And you don't need to justify your decision to
anyone but yourself.
Fabby herself usually lets a day or so pass after her
Offer: goes out to see who answers, and then picks the
person who asked for the thing the most politely. Or
sometime's it's the one who had the best and funniest
story about why they needed it, or who turns out to be
located in the same neighborhood as she is. Very often
this _isn't_ the first person who replies, which is a
nice benefit: not everyone can be hovering at their
computers 24x7, and Fabby thinks even people with
dialup Internet connections who check their email only
once a day (gasp!) or participate via the
sort-of-Daily Digest should have an equal shot at
getting stuff generously offered here. There's no rule
that people with the gigabit broadband cable feeds and
RedBull-enhanced fingers should get first dibs on
everything, you know.
And so what can you do about the others who respond,
especially the ones you encountered who seem to have
gotten report cards saying "doesn't play well with
others"? Well, it gets even better. You can simply
delete each and every email you get from them without
replying. Bzzzt, thank you for playing, but no
cookware set for this guest today, Johnny. The beauty
of it is that once you post a TAKEN notice, you're
done - it serves as a blanket answer to *everyone*
else who emailed you, so you don't have to do anything
more.
Perhaps after a few dozen times of the same thing
happening and being told "it's taken" even though they
know they responded 20 milliseconds after the posting
hit their mailbox, some people *might* start to think
a little bit...maybe there's more to being part of
this community than how fast they can click on the
"send" button?
That maybe whatever it was their mother told them -
you know, about being polite and courteous to others
and thankful for gifts they get - might actually be
good to remember?
No, you're right, probably not. But it's nice to
imagine, isn't it?
Yours in reuse,
FreeycleAbby (aka "Fabby")
(PS: By the way, you don't have to respond back to the
*nice* people who email you but didn't get your item,
either: the TAKEN does the work for you there as well.
Though of course you're welcome to send them an email
with your regrets if you want to, or save their
addresses just in case the first taker doesn't make
it. Again, you're the OFFERer, so it's all your
choice.)
_____________________ _________ _________ _________ ___
Copyright c2002 Used by permission.
_____________________ _________ _________ _________ ____
Copyright c2003 The Freecycle Network
(http://www.Freecycle.org ). All rights reserved.
Freecycle and the Freecycle logo are trademarks of
The Freecycle Network in the United States and/or
other countries.
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OFFER: Laminate Desk (Lakebay/Key Peninsula Highway N)
Posted by: "femeros73" femeros73@yahoo.com femeros73
Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:12 am (PDT)
Desk with four drawers & a side cabinet with good bones needs a fresh coat of paint and a new home.
The drawers are deep and glide well; there is plenty of room for your CPU in the cabinet. Perfect for a kids room, artist studio or shop.
See photos in "Aug 26, 2009" album in Tacoma Freecycle Photos section.
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