Freecycle - changing the world one gift at a time
I'm working hard to give a tip a day 'til Earth Day on things you can do to save our little planet...so here's my Saturday tip.
We are having a beautiful Saturday - 68 degrees and heading up! This puts me in the perfect mood for some spring cleaning! And I have the perfect way to get rid of things, things that maybe aren't good enough to donate, but believe me someone will want them. What is that famous saying? One man's (or woman, in this case) junk is another man's treasure? Well it truly is on www.freecycle.org!
The Freecycle Network is made up of 4,330 groups with 4,844,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free.
To sign up, go to www.freecycle.org, and find your community by entering it into the search box.
Here's how it works:
You list what you have to give away and your general location. People will respond on email that they are interested, you pick who you want to give it to and email them back with your address. They come to your house and pick it up! Honestly, I haven't seen one person that has taken my stuff - it's like a little fairy comes and takes it off the front porch - voila! my house is a little cleaner and I didn't have to trash it!
Not sure what is worthy to give away?? Oh, you would be surprised! So far, I've given away gift boxes, packing peanuts, lotion, baby powder, you name it. The most hilarious thing I saw listed and scooped up within minutes....tapioca pudding! :-)
I live in a pretty populated area, so I usually have a taker within minutes!
Check it out and Happy Spring Cleaning!
posted by Queen Baby Bean at
9:35 AM
1 Comments:
Excellent post, sis! You turned me on to Freecycle.org a few weeks ago and so I jumped to sign up for my area -- not so populated. The list works through Yahoo groups, and since I was already a member of several of them, that part has been easy.
So far I've gotten rid of my old flatbed scanner that no longer worked with my new laptop and I've posted a living poinsettia that I've somehow managed to keep alive since Christmas...no takers so far, but I'm hopeful! :)
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