They must think this is normal!

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I’m sure my girls are growing up thinking that whatever they want will just turn up, just like that! A few weeks ago Little One was reorganising her bedroom and wanted taller bookshelves now that’s she’s also taller. In a couple of days I had two bookcases I was kindly given through Freegle in the garage waiting for her to sort her things out. Each of those would have been between £80 and £150 to buy new. Then we decided that Big One could have a double bed, and a day or two later a really nice black metal bed, sort of Gothic style, was offered on Freegle. I was kindly given it, we brought it home (with the mattress tied on to the car roof!) and now it’s installed and she’s sitting pretty in that looking like a queen! To buy new that would have been at least £100 plus the mattress. Not long after that she mentioned that she was thinking of buying a drawing table, one of those that you can tilt up at various angles. Well, funnily enough someone had been offering exactly that on Freegle for a couple of weeks already. I wasn’t sure if it was still available or if they had just forgotten to take down the post, but yes it turned out it was still there and they were so keen to get rid of it they even brought it round for us straight away! The exact same thing is £99.99 new. A week or two ago our Italian lodger was cooking and she remarked that she preferred using one of those curved herb cutters to chop herbs, rather than a knife. Well you can guess what happened next can’t you? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2026.