Freecycle.org is a site that lets you give away your old items, and pick up new ones, without any bartering allowed. Users post items they`re hoping to get rid of, and other members of the group use e-mails to get those items for themselves.

“They actually encourage you not just to respond to the first person who e-mails you, but make an e-mail, send it out, then get some replies and see, if there`s somebody you think really needs it,” says Peter Schultz, who uses the site.

Schultz has been part of Free Cycle for about three years, and says it`s a way to get rid of things around the house you don`t want anymore, without having to take them to the trash.

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