Just joined a website called Streetbank

Donna

It got a review in the Standard today. Seems pretty cool, I'm offering to let people borrow my strimmer and in return I get to see what people are offering for free and what they are up for lending. <http://www.streetbank.com>; Here's the review: A website that allows you to see what your neighbours will lend — or give away — is rapidly expanding across London. Streetbank.com is a “giant attic, garden shed, toolkit, fancy dress chest and library” for people living within a 1,000-yard radius of your home. The site, which launched in April and has been likened to Freecycle but with sharing and giving on a more local scale, now has 2,650 active members, up from 1,500 people last month. Sam Stephens, 32, a headhunter for charities who lives in Fulham, co-founded the site with friend Ryan Davies, 37, an IT specialist. He said: “I was cycling down my road one day, and saw somebody with a hedge trimmer. It seemed crazy to have a hundred households with a hundred hedge trimmers. “I'm pretty brazen, but didn't quite have the confidence to approach my neighbour because they were a complete stranger. So it seemed like we should have a website.”

Mirandola

Me too. Let's see how it goes.

sincers

try saying hello. I've had stacks of things from my neighbours ... from borrowing the cyclnder mower from one side .... to having the entire shed (not the contents, the building) from the other! Its a fairly loose arrangement and Ill trade anything from wood, to labour.

Donna

yeah good point! just feel a bit cheeky eyeing up my neighbour's lawn mower.