Here's a great way to help your budget, clean out your house and simplify your life, while helping the environment and reducing unnecessary consumerism. That's a pretty tall order, but here's a way to do all that, and it is FREE. First, just take a good look around at all the "stuff'" you've accumulated. How much of it is just taking up space and collecting dust? What is still useful, but no longer being used? I have kitchen appliances we haven't used in years, just for example. Now what if someone else in your area needs something but just can't afford it. Maybe a single parent, a recent grad, an young person setting their first apartment, or someone who just bought their first house. There are so many things they need, and you might just have something you no longer use. So you go online to this site and post an OFFER. Every member can read the description of your item as well as where and when it can be picked up. You get e-mails. You contact the first one and make arrangements. If that doesn't work out, you contact the next one.
Second scenario: You need something. In my case, we needed a sewing machine. We gave ours to our daughter. Now we want to make some simple covers for our porch swing cushions, so I posted a WANTED notice. The next day we went about 7 miles and picked up a perfectly good sewing machine...FREE. All we needed to buy was some bobbins. How can you beat that?
Sound interesting? Then join our Freecycle Network! Just type those two words into your search engine, go to the website, type in your country and city, and you will see your closest group. I even found one in Victor Harbor, Australia, where I have some friends. Ours is in a suburb of Atlanta. If there is a group in your area, join. Free to join. Very few rules. And I think you will be surprised at the variety of things listed. Let me know what you think.
Friday, August 22, 2008
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