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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.

 

:D

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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

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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.

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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!!

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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 ;)

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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

 

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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 :D

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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 :D

 

Got some lovely gravel if you want it

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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 :D

 

That's not skint! :-p

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That's not skint! :-p

 

True that. :lol:

 

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.

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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 :D

 

aids ?

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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.

 

:D

 

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!)

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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?

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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

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