Anonymous wrote:Or any other similar freebie group. And did people actually want whatever the item was?
This morning someone posted a bag of Dave's Killer Bagels bagel tops up for grabs. Not a bag of bagels, just the tops of every bagel. Why? Because the person finds the tops of bagels to be too thick so she only eats the thinner bottoms. And people went loco over these! "I CAN BE THERE IN 10 MINS!" "I live 2 streets away & can send my kid on his bike now" "Would love these but I'm working. Can you hold? I'm too poor to afford this brand."
I thought I'd seen it all. Before the bagel tops, the craziest things I had seen was two half eaten Costco-sized sheet cakes from a grad party being offered up.
Anonymous wrote:any good surprises?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:In my buy nothing group people will occasionally post an “ask” looking for someone to give them a brand new, never used item for free. There’s one woman in particular who frequently does this. Last week she posted “Ask: anyone have a new, unused twin size mattress and box spring they’re looking to give away? My son needs a new bed.” This is a woman w a full time job, dual income household in a nice neighborhood. She just somehow thinks someone has a new mattress set sitting in their house that they’re looking to give away?!
Ours don’t go so far but they still request magnatiles, iPads or iPhones or laptops.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I imagine quite a few hoarders patrol the buy nothing groups.
I think our admin is a hoarder. She usually bids for the same type of items; like how many handbags can you possibly want?!
She also loves all those small, detailed rules. Please put a tag on here and please write this or that in the event of that or this. She also lingers in the front yard when she picks stuff up in the hopes of chatting up the owners. Clearly weird, lonely and with too much time on her hands.
Oohhh, Is this is the Alexandria west end group? Sounds like it.
Anonymous wrote:In my buy nothing group people will occasionally post an “ask” looking for someone to give them a brand new, never used item for free. There’s one woman in particular who frequently does this. Last week she posted “Ask: anyone have a new, unused twin size mattress and box spring they’re looking to give away? My son needs a new bed.” This is a woman w a full time job, dual income household in a nice neighborhood. She just somehow thinks someone has a new mattress set sitting in their house that they’re looking to give away?!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I imagine quite a few hoarders patrol the buy nothing groups.
I think our admin is a hoarder. She usually bids for the same type of items; like how many handbags can you possibly want?!
She also loves all those small, detailed rules. Please put a tag on here and please write this or that in the event of that or this. She also lingers in the front yard when she picks stuff up in the hopes of chatting up the owners. Clearly weird, lonely and with too much time on her hands.