Three pairs of women’s shoes. A box of record albums. Stereo equipment. A stovetop. A quill and ink bottle. A wicker basket. An acoustic guitar. A dehumidifier.

As I write, all those things and more are being offered for free on my local Freecycle Network. By the time you read this, they’ll be taken. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

“What is really interesting about Freecycle,” says Daniel Ben-Horin, the founder of a nonprofit Web site called TechSoup, “is that unlike a lot of virtual communities, something very concrete happens.”

“It appeals to people’s thrift, to their green impulses and to their sense of community,” Ben-Horin says. “I think that’s brilliant.”

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