Asking for items so you do not use your farmville bucks can be a job in itself. You post to the wall, and if your lucky maybe somebody will send you one picket fence or a brick for your horse stable.
How to get somebody to send you everything you need is to first gift it to them. Lets say you just got an idea to make a decoration with some flax leaves but nobody seems to be sending them to you. You think fifteen of them should do the trick yet every wish you make is maybe answered one or two times.
First you need to gift them to as many friends as you can, and than as long as they know what they are doing, they will send you a thank you gift. This will send the gift right back to you. Now you should probably have more than enough of those flax leaves.
This sometimes annoys people, and they won't gift the item back. What they have to try to remember is being in our position at one time or another and begging for that last horseshoe to complete their stables.
