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I have passed on several things to my granddaughter

She is grateful for anything even if it eventually has a short shelf life

Recently gave her a dyson cylinder Cleaner because found it too heavy to lug around

Bought two new rechargeable stick cleaners one for downstairs one for upstairs

She was delighted to get a more powerful cleaner and was going to recycle her cheaper one with less power :-(

I left it by my car, told her it is there and now it is gone don’t know if she took it or not as not had acknowledgment that she has, I stupidly thought she would, I would.

:-D :-D :-D

They should have looked in it's mouth. :-D

I expect the Trojans regretted accepting a gift horse.

I find it strange.
I had an average fridge with a small freezer bit at the top.
My mum offered me her old tall fridge freezer, which I accepted, thinking, if it works, when it breaks down, I'll buy a new one.
It lasted longer than I thought, then my children moved out, it finally gave up the ghost, and, as there was just me, I bought an under the counter fridge freezer (half and half).
This was okay, but when, a couple of years later, I inherited a small amount of money, I decided to get a new tall fridge freezer.

Meanwhile, a friend's fridge (with small freezer bit at the top) had broken, and his sister had given him her very old fridge, that had no freezer bit.
He moaned about the fact that, if he bought say, sausages, he had to eat them for 2 or 3 days on the trot.
I offered him my under the counter fridge/freezer. He refused, in case, apparently, his sister was upset! :-S
His sister never goes to his flat.

He still moans about eating the same thing for 2 or 3 days.
Meanwhile, I will buy some, say, mince (the larger the amount, the cheaper), cook it in one go, put it in individual containers and freeze it.
I can buy multi-packs, and freeze them.
My food bill is probably a lot less than his, and my meals much more varied.

Might she have been embarrassed or too proud, many people are when offered things as it makes them realise others are aware of their situation.

For Dermot:

"Don't question the value of a gift. The proverb refers to the practice of evaluating the age of a horse by looking at its teeth. This practice is also the source of the expression “long in the tooth,” meaning old."

"The saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means that you shouldn't criticize a gift, even if you don't like it very much. A gift horse, in other words, is a gift. The term gift horse is pretty easy to remember if you imagine the horse as a present."

What's a 'gift horse'?

Batteries included, no doubt.

Her daughter is coming to pick it up so that will be the end of that but not the friendship. We’ve known each other for over 50 years, I just won’t want to help her so much anymore.

I remember when we bought our twin tub we thought it was great until we got an automatic.

We have a GTech, light as a feather, that we use on all floor surfaces.

After we've vacced the kitchen floor we use a Vileda 'mop' which is refillable. If I use it, I usually put in some antibac liquid but OH simply uses the Vileda refills. I'd recommend it.

That sounds like my mum. When they couldn’t fix her twin tub anymore she washed everything by hand!
When she became frail I used to travel up every week and take her sheets away to wash.

I too have a mop and bucket. I find that vacuum cleaners don’t work too well on kitchen floors.

ZZzzz, please don't give up completely with your friend.

Why not speak to her again, or send a note, and just say you wonder If she's had a rethink? Say she can borrow it to try out till she can get one she really wants and then she can give it back to you when you can then offer it to someone else or put on gumtree. If she still says no then just say ok and leave it.

She might be nervous of trying new machinery. My Mum refused an automatic washing machine but continued to struggle with her twintub because she was scared of new technology, similarly she refused a microwave.

Lizx

Hmmm Mop, Bucket , and carpets don't gel very well....

Well I still use a mop and bucket and I have 2 inside brooms that get used. I do also have a vacuum and a steam cleaner . Each to there own I say. If I hadn't got a vacuum I would definitely be grateful for a free one. :-D :-D

19:03 - " I wonder how people manage not to have a vaccum cleaner"

19:52 - "As a member of a charitable trust in London...... I am well aware that some of the tenants were skint before corvid struck........

Bit of a contradiction there.

She is retired and widowed, on a very tight budget and looking a gift horse in the mouth, I’ve almost had enough of her being ungrateful. I won’t try to help her again.

As a member of a charitable trust in London which provides rental housing at a reasonable cost I am well aware that some of the tenants were skint before corvid struck and are even more up against it now. The non-payment of rent is going to cause endless problems - it is no good Boris treating landlords as if they were the bank of mum and dad.

We keep a beady on on those who are short and in any case all houses and flats have the basics if needed - washing machine, fridge, microwave (if wanted) and, yep, a vacuum cleaner. Older ones use too much electricity.

RTR, that is exactly what she has been doing because she can’t afford to buy one.

Oh how the other half live, I know people that struggle to buy their food and pay their rent let alone buying other things,

I wonder how people manage not to have a vaccum cleaner ... a basic one in Argos is around £ 30 while eBay has a choice for buttons if you dont mind picking them up.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/dyson-vacuum-cleaner/284020780212?hash=item4220f52cb4:g:fVAAAOSwmQNfalBn

Surely people don't try and clean floors with a bucket and mop or hand sweeper ?

Sometimes people turn stuff down when broke 'cos they dislike charity. Maybe if you had said "nearly new cleaner for a fiver" there would have been more interest.