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Freecycle Galway Alternative

The things Galway forgets it can give away.

Givore is an app for handing things on, free to use. You put up what you no longer need, somebody asks for it, and they come and collect. Nobody pays anybody. People here already give away sofas and wardrobes. What sits in the shed and the back of the press is smaller. It is often the exact thing somebody else was about to buy.

Six things worth posting.

None of these feel like a giveaway. All of them save somebody a trip to a shop.

Moving boxes

Flat cardboard takes up no room in a car and everybody moving needs it. Say how many you have and whether they are still square.

Houseplants and cuttings

A big plant is hard to move house with and easy to hand to a neighbour. Cuttings in a jam jar count too. Photograph the leaves, not the pot.

Bike bits

A pump, a spare inner tube, a rack you took off years ago. Galway is flat and compact, so bikes get used here, and none of this is worth binning.

Leftover paint

Half a tin with the lid still sealed is exactly what someone doing one wall wants. Write the colour and roughly how much is left.

Course books and folders

Term ends and the reading list goes in a bag. Someone starting the same module in September would rather not buy it again.

The spare suitcase

Most homes have one too many, usually the big one on top of the wardrobe. It is bulky to store and it never wears out.

Getting it home in Galway

On foot in town

Between the centre, Bohermore and the Claddagh, most handovers are a walk. Anything you can hold in two hands needs no plan at all.

Out to Salthill or Knocknacarra

Further out, so agree a time that suits both of you rather than a vague evening. A bus works for boxes. A wardrobe does not.

Ask the two questions

What floor is it on, and does it come apart. Those two answers decide whether you go alone or bring somebody with a car.

Open the shed door.

Pick the first thing you would not miss, photograph it in daylight and put it up. Posting takes about half a minute.

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Givore cat mascot photographing a houseplant to give away in Galway Givore cat mascot carrying flat moving boxes along a Galway street

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Questions people in Galway ask

Rarely. A spare phone charger or four matching plates are worth someone's walk across town. The things that go unposted are usually the small ones.
Freecycle works through a group and an inbox. Givore shows items on a map, so you know the distance before you agree to anything.
Yes. You can put up a Looking For post saying what you need. Someone who has one spare can answer it without you hunting through listings.