IT’S all part of the great re-cycle of life. For one man’s junk can quite literally be another man’s treasure – if the buzz around the free-for-all websites Freecycle and RealCycle Manchester is anything to go by.

A mop and bucket, a flatbed scanner, flagstones, a 1970’s orange tent, three Jiffy bags and a brand new children’s quad bike ‘bought by grandparents as a very over-ambitious first birthday present’ - these probably go some way toward illustrating a mere selection of the weird and wonderful goods people want to give each other for FREE this week.

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