Consider a local trade
Yorktown resident Carol Masser suggests the Web site freecycle.org. After you join a local chapter, you can list the items that you’re willing to give away and look for items for yourself.

Different from a trading group, two people don’t have to agree on a swap for the transaction to happen. You simply need to offer some of your goods in order to choose from what others in the group have listed.

Locally, there are freecycle groups in Newport News and Williamsburg.

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