Are you all familiar with www.freecycle.org? If you're not, you really should check it out! When you go to that site, it asks for your zip code, then puts you in your geographical freecycle area.
Here's how freecycle works:
1. You have something you don't need anymore, but think someone else may have a use for it.
2. You post "OFFERED: item (location)" on the website.
3. People can email you (but they don't see your email address; like craigslist) if they're interested
4. You decide who gets it and set up a pick up time and location with them.
OR...
1. You need something, so you post, "WANTED: item (location)"
2. People check their closets, and lo and behold, they have it and aren't using it.
3. They email you, set up a pick up, and everybody's happy!
It is always a good feeling to give something away to someone you know will need/want to use it, and it's a GREAT feeling to get something for free! I've been freecycling for about a year, and so far I've received...
yoga mats, a bread machine, a canner and a TON of wide mouth quart jars (I mean TONS), dress shoes, groovy girls toys, hermit crab terrarium, bookshelves (for storing all those jars!) ... you get the idea. It's also been satisfying to find good homes for stuff we don't need anymore (we don't live close to a DI trailer, plus, sometimes it's easier to part with it if you know it's meeting an actual need of a person in your community. I've even given away bags of food from cleaning out the pantry! It's also a FAB place to find/get rid of moving boxes!
Have a I sold you, yet?! Go check it out! Kristin
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hi the message is for sandy, i just wanted to tell you that i get all my ideas from country living and martha stewart and kind of morph them into my own little whatever, i wanted to also thank you for your kind words always! sorry i had to use this blog and not your personal one but this one is listed! thank you!
Thanks, Kristin. I just got approved today and am excited to try this out!
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