Pretence Lying

I love getting things for free.  For many different reasons.  It saves money, especially when you don't have money, or are really poor and tight financially. 

I have been a member of the yahoo group freecycle.org for the past 5 years.  I have always had no less than 2 different email addresses and aliases assigned to freecycle in my area.  Now this is pretty tricky because when I needed to get rid of items, I had to give the same address or phone number. 
After a while people start to realize that something foul is going on, and start ignoring my emails wanting to pick up items.  That gets very frustrating.  But half as frustrating as my next story.

I'm a mother of younger kids, and right now, we're pretty tight on money trying to pay off some major debt.  So I really like finding good deals.  Well I had a good amount of baby and toddler items I didn't feel like keeping, so I tried to sell them on the local classifieds and craigslist.com.  I didn't get a single bite.  That was really sad, because I really needed good money for these really well kept items.  So I took them to the store Kid to Kid, and hoped to get no less than $35 for everything.
(I had a car seat only used for 8months, baby toys used only for 6 months, and lots of baby clothes)  I figured that was a fair deal, they'd be able to sell everything for more than I hoped to get from everything.  Well on the Kid to Kid sell form, they ask you if you want to donate unwanted items or pick them back up.  Well I said donate, figuring there wouldn't be much they wouldn't want. 

After waiting all weekend I went in on Monday to pick up my money.  They were only going to give me $13 cash or $15.89 store credit.  They only wanted the car seat.  So I lost out big time on everything else I donated.  Now the thing that made me realize I was paying for my many many months of lying, is that they claimed everything else I had brought in had stains on them.  Which without pictures I know beyond a shadow of a doubt they were NOT stained.  I figured they wouldn't want stained items.  So I was cheated out of $$ because I had cheated others out of their free items all because I was pretence lying.

Moral of the story, I'm now off freecycle.org, and if I ever get on again, I will be myself, and not lie.  I am going to be honest in my dealings with my fellow men, women and children.  Because bad charma really does exist.  So I'm leaving the bad and bringing the good into my life!