Bought my first house - Need a few bits!

I bought my first house last week and I am absolutely skint. (feels like I will be for the rest of my life too!)

Does anyone have a decent table and 4/6 chairs they would like to get rid of?

Also looking for a gas/electic cooker & hob.

Also after a washing machine.

Thought it might be worth asking. I had all sorts of things in my attic which I didn't want from my last place which I gave away and have gone to happy homes.

I'm happy to collect - I live in Brighton but I'll be in Southampton this Friday.

Thanks guys.

freecycle

Get in touch with these, you pikey.

Basingstoke Community Furniture Project

Tel 01256 320700 Fax 01256 327500

Email phelim@cfpbasingstoke.org Website http://www.cfpbasingstoke.org

6 Joule Road, BASINGSTOKE, Hants RG21 6XH

You only need a TV, kettle, microwave and a Wii

freecycle

Yes, or preloved!

Been living along since November in my first place, never thought i would cope after about a month or so..........

But i am still alive, Freecycle is a god send until you can afford to get some decent clobber, put in an advert for a fridge freezer and had a bout 4 offered to me, all in working order apparently.

give it a whirl

gumtree

freecycle

I forgot all about them!

Thanks.

In my experience, Freecycle just bombards your inbox with hundreds of offers of crap, most of which is already gone by the time you contact the vendor.

Anyway, I didn't think they gave mortgages to 15-year-olds.

In my experience, Freecycle just bombards your inbox with hundreds of offers of crap, most of which is already gone by the time you contact the vendor.

 

Anyway, I didn't think they gave mortgages to 15-year-olds.

you can change the settings so you dont receive any emails

I am an avid freecycler but be warned - I got a freezer which after a week caught fire and I had to call a bloody fire engine out!!

The first thing I got was a dishwasher then curtains.

We've used Freecycle to get a few bits but also to get rid of loads of stuff.

It's a great site, the only downside is i keep getting offered gravel.

I had to call a bloody fire engine out!!

Did it come with any firemen? Or was it some sort of KITT Fire Engine?

The only thing you need is a beer fridge.

The only thing you need is a beer fridge.

And the beers to go in it...

In my experience, Freecycle just bombards your inbox with hundreds of offers of crap, most of which is already gone by the time you contact the vendor.

 

Anyway, I didn't think they gave mortgages to 15-year-olds.

I was 15 just over 6 years ago, so maybe you're getting confused with that? You oldies do tend to suffer memory loss

Been living along since November in my first place, never thought i would cope after about a month or so..........

 

But i am still alive, Freecycle is a god send until you can afford to get some decent clobber, put in an advert for a fridge freezer and had a bout 4 offered to me, all in working order apparently.

 

give it a whirl

Thanks for your wise words of wisdom as ever Stevo

Bought a year old cream corner sofa last night from someone on gumtree for £120. Bought an ikea table with 6 chairs for £50 off someone on ebay and £150 on a brand new free standing electric cooker with hob also from ebay. Thanks guys. If anyone else has anything they would like to give me - please let me know

Bought a year old cream corner sofa last night from someone on gumtree for £120. Bought an ikea table with 6 chairs for £50 off someone on ebay and £150 on a brand new free standing electric cooker with hob also from ebay. Thanks guys. If anyone else has anything they would like to give me - please let me know

Got some lovely gravel if you want it

Bought a year old cream corner sofa last night from someone on gumtree for £120. Bought an ikea table with 6 chairs for £50 off someone on ebay and £150 on a brand new free standing electric cooker with hob also from ebay. Thanks guys. If anyone else has anything they would like to give me - please let me know

That's not skint! :-p

That's not skint! :-p

True that.

I'm actually minted and just trying to get free stuff.

No really, they were amazingly good deals. The cooker was £389 on argos. The sofa cost £699 from DFS a couple of years back - still in good nick. I've done well! All thanks to this thread too. Sort of.

I'm possibly getting an unfurnished flat for next year so may well use freecycle to get some free sh*t. Has anyone ever caught anything off something they've bought?!

bought a year old cream corner sofa last night from someone on gumtree for £120. Bought an ikea table with 6 chairs for £50 off someone on ebay and £150 on a brand new free standing electric cooker with hob also from ebay. Thanks guys. If anyone else has anything they would like to give me - please let me know

aids ?

I bought my first house last week and I am absolutely skint. (feels like I will be for the rest of my life too!)

 

I'm happy to collect - I live in Brighton but I'll be in Southampton this Friday.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Well no wonder you're skint if you bought a house in Brighton. We moved out of Brighton and back to Southampton because we just couldn't afford to buy there (well, that was the official reason I gave to the Mrs, unnoficially it meant more Saints games!)

When I moved in with my missus, I offered to pay all the rent if she did everything else. I now have one bill to pay, she pays for: furniture, council tax, utilities, shopping (excluding alcohol but including my stuff like razor blades and shampoo) renting the garage out the back, lovefilm, mobile broadband and I make her pay for petrol if she wants to go anywhere. I think I may have got the good end of the deal there.

Furniture-wise, we bought a fair amount of stuff from Ikea but we did sponge a lot of the rest of the stuff from our parents.

Incidentally, am I the first to destroy a brand new bookcase because I suck at flat pack?

When I moved in with my missus, I offered to pay all the rent if she did everything else. I now have one bill to pay, she pays for: furniture, council tax, utilities, shopping (excluding alcohol but including my stuff like razor blades and shampoo) renting the garage out the back, lovefilm, mobile broadband and I make her pay for petrol if she wants to go anywhere. I think I may have got the good end of the deal there.

 

Furniture-wise, we bought a fair amount of stuff from Ikea but we did sponge a lot of the rest of the stuff from our parents.

 

Incidentally, am I the first to destroy a brand new bookcase because I suck at flat pack?

bookcase perhaps, but i got nails hanging outa most of my ikea furniture. Malm, btw