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Free Stuff Dublin

Free stuff in Dublin, for an empty place.

Givore is an app for handing things on, and it costs nothing to use. Nothing on it carries a price, because nothing on it is for sale. Most people searching for free things in Dublin are in the same spot: keys in hand, rooms with nothing in them, and a long list of small things to buy. Here is what tends to come up first.

Six things a bare apartment needs.

None of these are worth buying new on week one. All of them are things other people are trying to get rid of.

A kettle and mugs

Almost every share house has spare mugs. They are light, easy to hand over on a doorstep, and nobody wants to pack them when they move out.

A lamp

A lot of rentals have one bare bulb per room. A floor lamp or a bedside lamp changes how the place feels for exactly nothing.

A clothes airer

Few Dublin rentals come with a dryer, so washing gets dried indoors. Ask for the tall folding kind rather than the little tabletop one.

A chest of drawers

Bigger, so ask the questions early. Width, whether it comes apart, and what floor it is on. That decides whether you need help or a car.

A table and two chairs

These turn over constantly. The next tenant either has one already or the room will not take it.

Curtains or a blind

Rarely bought secondhand, often given away, and the thing people forget until the first bright morning. Ask for the pole as well.

Where Dublin already looks

DoneDeal and adverts.ie

Both run a free section and both are household names here. They exist to sell things first, so a giveaway lands beside priced ads and people ask you to hold items.

Freecycle

Older, simpler, and it does the job. The catch is the format. Group posts and email digests, with nothing that shows you how far away an item is.

Givore

No price field means no offers land in your inbox. Requests gather in a list that only the person giving it away can see, and they decide. Speed is not what settles it.

Start with the emptiest room.

Ask for one thing you actually need this week. Or go the other way and clear out whatever the last tenant left behind.

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Questions people in Dublin ask

The idea is the same and neither costs anything. Freecycle runs on group posts and email threads. Givore puts the same thing on a map, so distance is the first thing you see.
DoneDeal exists to sell things, so giveaways share a page with priced ads. Givore has no price field anywhere, so an offer is not something anyone can send you.
Not for most things. Plenty of it fits on a bus or in the boot of a friend's car. For anything tall or heavy, ask what floor it is on first.
Anything clean that works. Kitchen bits, small furniture, clothes, tools, plants. The rule of thumb: if you would take it yourself, so will somebody else.