Moving house is always a long, tiring process with far too many things to think about. There’s not just the house to paint, possessions to pack and the travelling itself – but moving into a house sometimes requires new furniture.

Furniture is never cheap to buy with a brand new comfy sofa costing you upwards of £300 so what can you do? And since we are always been urged to recycle and recycle, we at the Echo challenged ourselves to furnish a house entirely of free second hand furniture.

Recyclers and environment lovers are likely to have heard of Freecycle before, but for those who haven’t it’s the site on which people can offer and request second hand items completely for free.

The Lincoln group had the following offers on Monday June, 29 with which to furnish your house completely for free:

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Avid recyclers and reusers will have explored the depths of Freecycle before but we wanted to see what was available for your garden from the website.

The Freecycle Network is another alternative to throwing away, especially for larger items, and offers people the chance to pass on unwanted items to a new loving home – for free!

We take a look what is on offer on Friday, June 26:

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