D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Freecycle - your experiences?
I love using Freecycle to get rid of items that I don't want, but are too good to just throw away. People will take almost anything when it's free! But man, when you offer up something that is legitimately good, you get a ridiculous number of requests. I am overwhelmed. I offered some items less than an hour ago, and I already have 30+ requests for them. Now I'm waiting for my "Taken" post to go up so people will stop emailing me about them.
I want to try to Freecycle a piece of furniture, but this would be my first time Freecycling something large. I always do porck pick-up with smaller items. Has anyone Freecycled something large, and how did it work? I'm also not opposed to just taking it down to the curb and putting a sign on it that says "free table," but I don't know if my street gets enough traffic for that to work.
I want to try to Freecycle a piece of furniture, but this would be my first time Freecycling something large. I always do porck pick-up with smaller items. Has anyone Freecycled something large, and how did it work? I'm also not opposed to just taking it down to the curb and putting a sign on it that says "free table," but I don't know if my street gets enough traffic for that to work.
Re: Freecycle - your experiences?
I've freecycled a couch & a heavy, metal porch swing.
I just scheduled pickup when my husband (to help move it, if needed) and myself were home.
Same for us when I freecycled furniture. I also specified in the posting when I would be available to give it away and that it would not be available at other times.
Oh, I've also found it helpful to specify the dimensions of the item & whether or not it will break down further.
I had kind of a laughable pick up of our old IKEA dining room table that could have been prevented if I was more specific (or, they had gone to IKEA's website).
you should also mention in your post that the person may need a large vehicle to pick up this item or that it's heavy, etc
I think this is what I'm going to do. We can get it out of the house/down the stairs ourselves and just leave it for someone.
We did his with a crappy TV stand. It was gone in 30 minutes.