This offering is sort of an experiment. Tea and Tupperware aside, so far I have been giving away pretty good stuff: nice clothing, toys, small household furnishings. The Freecycle response has been commesurate: good stuff equals lots of requests. This floral stand is the first real oddball item I've offered. It is left over from a huge, gorgeous arrangement of the sort of showy, colorful flowers that my mother-in-law loved. Alan commissioned it for her memorial service; afterward, we pulled all the flowers out and had beautiful blossoms all over the house in all sorts of containers, there being many more flowers than we have vases to accomodate. It was in all ways a perfect tribute to his mom.
I posted the wooden stand on Freecycle at 8:30 am and so far not a single nibble. I'm giving it 24 hours before declaring it officially forlorn and rejected, but hope is not high. In my experience the majority of requests come in immediately after posts appear on the Baltimore Freecycle homepage, though for highly desireable items they'll keep trickling in even days later.
I do have a plan B for this item: take it back to the florist shop where it came from. I'm sure they'll be delighted to have it to re-use.
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