Freecycle

Well the Salvation Army came but they didn't want our beds - too old! So, we hired a trailer and loaded it up with our gear, put all our recycling in the boot and headed off to the tip's recycling centre. (We had heaps of recycling to get rid of due to a combination of missing the last collection, Christmas and our general clean up).

When we arrived at the centre we were approached almost straight away by a man who said he would take what was on the trailer. It soon became apparent that no, he didn't work there, he just liked the look of our stuff! But in the true spirit of freecycling, this was not a problem for us at all. He seemed really stoked with his two single beds, two rugs, coffee table and armchair, which were all loaded into his trailer as his kids looked on. I'm glad they seem to be going to a good home, as everything still had a lot of use left in it.

Meanwhile, our new chest of drawers had been delivered earlier this morning. I have gone through all the baby gear and divided it into colour-based washing loads, which I'll attempt to get through over the next few weeks.