General Chat

Some months ago a relation agreed to buy a secondhand toy from a colleague.

Surprised that anyone would sell a plastic toy in a grubby, unwashed condition.

Had they taken the trouble to do so, they would have easily found a handful of small change. Thank goodness it was checked out before giving to a toddler who might so easily have choked on the same.

We did have a laugh, though. At least the toy was cheaper than expected, came heavily discounted.

Joking aside, potentially dangerous, but have people no pride?

Someone SOLD something to a colleague without cleaning it?
Yukk.

I wouldn't even GIVE someone something without washing it first.

When my children were young, I bought them Duplo and Lego.
When elder daughter had a baby, I dug the Duplo out of the attic, sterilised it, and gave it to her.
Her children are now 12, 7 and 4.

My younger daughter is expecting her first baby in a week or two. Elder daughter has sterilised the ancient Duplo, to hand on to her younger sister's baby.

Exactly, maggie!

I am amazed that on local selling pages on face book people will offer things for sale with the wording along the lines of 'good condition but grubby and needs a wipe down'. Why not just wash it? :-0

Yup my Mrs gets really stressed if our neighbour asks to put recycling in our bin if she doesn't have a lot, because she never rinses tins and bottles :-(

So she sneaks them indoors and washes them before putting them back!

Isn't that amazing, Lyndi? I re-wash everything when sending to mens homeless charity, even when has only been sitting clean in drawers.

My daughter went to collect a bag of little kiddie clothing, she recognised the name as a girl from her class at school so thought happy to do so.

When she arrived, the girl was out so she posted the £10 through the door and picked up the bag left in the porch for her.

Arriving home, she found a sack of dirty, crumpled rags, some were even mouldy. She put them straight into the dustbin but couldn't bring herself to say anything. She learned her lesson and always buys new now, and he always looks beautifully turned out.

No shame!

Hard to believe Lavender. There have been a few complaints on the sites recently by people buying 'bundles' of baby clothing, only to find when they unpack them that they are stained and damaged.
You can get baby clothes so cheap now as well, so I would prefer cheap and new to second hand and dirty.
The sites I am on deal with children's clothing, toys and baby equipment. People will put 'needs ironing' and upload photos of crumpled stuff - as you say no shame. Lots of the stuff is so easy to clean, literally just needs a wipe down lol.

Oh and yes Mayfield, couldn't bear to think of stuff being put in my recycling without a rinse lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cSiKns1zHI