Freegle

My local group (Uckfield and Heathfield) recently broke away from the Freecycle Group and became Freegle instead. As I understand it this was to allow them to act more independantly and have rules better suited to non-US based group. Apart from having to change the link in my "Favourites" and remember to start calling it "Freegle" this hasn't really affected me. I have been a member of my local group and 3 others in the vicinity for several years now and am a regular visitor. The Basic Idea The purpose of the site is to pass on unwanted items (anything from furniture to fruit) to others who will make use of them, rather than the ...  Read the complete review

In these troubled financial times everybody, it seems, wants, nay expects, something for nothing. In my experience, free ad sites such as Gumtree, Preloved, ItsMyMarket, Adzooks and so on, appear to be experiencing lean times, no matter how cheaply items are offered for sale. And yet, these same items offered on recycling sites such as Freecycle, Snaffleup and Freeuseit are practically snatched out of your hand almost before you've posted the ad. Freecycle is probably the Daddy of the "give it away for free" organisations and reviews have been written about it here by, at the last count, 94 members, including myself. I have been a member of two of ...  Read the complete review

Freegle is what was formerly known as Freecycle. It is on the yahoo network and has various regional groups up and down the country. Most towns/cities will have one. For smaller areas then they may be combined to form one group. I came across Freecycle as it was known, a few years ago after my mum showed me an article for it in our local village magazine. I didn't have a yahoo account and so had to set one up in order to use it. If you already have a yahoo account than you can use your existing one. The first thing I did when I signed up was to list some things we had - more about that later. The basic idea of freegle is that we prevent things just ...  Read the complete review

Freegle is a new website I have recently found online, it is very similar to Freecycle in many senses in that it allows people to give away items they no longer require to others for free, as a means to avoid simply dumping old stuff. Freegle is hosted on the Yahoo Groups page, it is well set out and simplistic in style but nice enough, it works thus: Join a local group in Freegle, regions are listed as: * East * East Midlands * London * North East * North West * Northern Ireland * Scotland * South East * South West * Wales * West Midlands * Yorkshire and the ...  Read the complete review