If it’s a specific item you’re after, then there are plenty of more specialised swapping websites that might be able to help. Whether it’s cars, stickers, games or bikes, you can find an internet swapshop for more or less anything. Don’t forget that for of all these ventures, you will have to pay postage or pick up any items you’ve managed to get.

To some, freecycling represents just a convenient way of doing some 'life laundering'. To others it is far more important; representing a sustainable, environmentally-friendly system that could change all our lives for the better.