I feel fine
(My teenage drawing of George)
Freecycle is pretty cool, isn’t it? A freecycler just called at my door to take my box of Beatles newspaper and magazine clippings. It feels good to have given them to someone who really wants them, as I’m not interested in the clippings anymore.
The collection included some Beatles Monthly magazines, a few posters, some ghastly half-photo half-drawing portraits that Mobil service stations must have been giving away in 1964 and other amusingly dodgy promotional material, and accounts of their notable visit to Adelaide. Their biggest crowd ever, at 300,000 people about a third of Adelaide’s population at the time, lined the route from Adelaide Airport to the city. Unfortunately I wasn’t there, as I was just a bit young. I remember looking at the ticket queue with curiosity and maybe a little longing though – it must have been important to me if I cut articles out of the newspaper.
Our local freecycle is run by some real nuts. I have never successfully posted anything without getting a scolding email about how I have made usually many mistakes. And, I was relieved to discover it wasn’t just me- on our local email list, many people had the same experience. Luckily I have other options for getting rid of treasures, like Craigslist or the aforementioned local list. My favorite was when I posted the 50 hats that I’d brought home while clearing out my parents house. The hats were all piled on a bed and the kid was coming home for vacation. Someone claimed them in 10 minutes!
Love the hat story!
I think there might be various freecycle groups around, the cultures must vary. The one here seems to have auto reminders of etiquette to the boards, but that’s about all. But yes, that would be a real turn-off!