Anyone else here used freecycle.org?

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cheezz

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The reason I mention it is that I often see people with stacks of cooking magazines and cookbooks that just want to find a home for them. Other things as well - kitchen stuff, etc. GREAT site and all free.

It began in Sacramento by 2 housewives who had a lot of baby things, etc., and were looking for someone to give them to. Well, it ran like wildfire and is a nationwide site now. You click on "Groups in your local area", find the city you want, then click to join. The requirement is that the item be FREE and the person taking it has to pick it up.

It ranges from boxes of holiday cards to gallon bucket of wood stain, to pets, furniture, exercise weights, moving boxes... etc.

 
Freecycle

We have it in Oklahoma city. I used it to get rid of some stuff...if you read it long enough it is usually the same people begging for stuff. They are probably getting the stuff and selling it. IMHO I think a lot of them are too lazy to work and want others to work for them. Just my opinion. They all seem to be doing it for some elderly or disabled friend or family member

 
I have not personally used it.....

but my daughter unloaded a lot of things before she moved using freecycle and several folks I work with have also done the same.
Seems like a good way to recycle stuff you have and can no longer use.

 
Haven't used freecycle yet but how 'bout just put a free ad in the paper?

Our local paper, Naples Daily News, will let you run an ad free if you're selling the item for under $100 or if it's a giveaway; that's pretty good. I've picked up moving boxes from someone giving them away, then I gave mine away in the same fashion using the free ad in the classifieds. Of course, not all newspapers do this but heck, it's worth asking about! Naples Daily News is a Scripps Howard newspaper.

 
yuppers

I got rid of a ton of stuff on freecycle.

I've only picked up one thing, and I'm going to relist it - a Hammond organ. I used to sell them, so I was feeling moderately sentimental. Then I remembered that I stopped selling them, in part, because I was SO crappy at playing them.

So I bought a nice used Roland digital piano. And I pretend I remember how to play.

 
This is Los Angeles.... FREE ads?! It's so easy to click, click and post an ad

at freecycle - great way to recycle.

 
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