Be a “Freecycler”

Freecycle.org, a membership organization with thousands of local chapters, helps people give away unwanted goods, such as brand-new baby clothes, computers and furniture, to other “freecyclers” so that it won’t end up in landfills. Most of the time, it’s not worn-out Salvation Army merchandise. Not long ago, the Boston chapter featured an entire Ethan Allen living room set free for the taking. You can “ask” for something specific, and often, you’ll get it.

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7 Find freebies

Websites such as freecycle.org have created online communities that exchange or just give away unwanted goods – from dishwashers to CDs.

The site puts you in touch with people in your local area who want to give away items rather than dump them in landfills.

You have to sign up to one of over 4,300 communities around the world, but there are plenty in the UK. In London’s Hammer-smith and Fulham, for example, there are 4,799 active members giving away everything from bikes to greenhouses.

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Thunder Bay Freecycle : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thunderbayfreecycle

A local environmental group is going the extra mile when it comes to recycling and is taking the old expression ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ to productive new heights.

Since 2004 Freecycle Thunder Bay has been trading everything from books and cookie cutters to washers and dryers and group organizer Tessa Soderberg says with Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22 what better way to get involved in reducing waste than to join in.|

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When saving money is truly an objective, we will change our spending habits. The cost of gas is taking a toll. Saving’s tips:

Freecycle.org, a membership organization with thousands of local chapters, helps people give away unwanted goods, such as brand new baby clothes, computers and furniture, to other “freecyclers” so that it won’t end up in landfills. Most of the time, it’s not worn out. People frequently ask for exercise equipment, like treadmills, and find treasures within a day.

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A SHOW flat at a new complex of environmentally-friendly eco homes has been furnished on the cheap - with furniture, appliances and ornaments snapped up for a bargain on the internet.
Developers of Sheffield’s £5.2 million eco homes, in Norfolk Park, have brought in “well-loved” furnishings, bought from websites eBay and Freecycle, where internet users sell and exchange unwanted items.

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Other readers suggested that the books might be desired by interior decorators, home schoolers, scrapbookers or crafters. To connect with the right person, one reader suggested that you “freecycle” them, by which I think she meant posting a notice on the Roanoke section of the Freecycle.org network.

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6 Sources of cash

Stop using EBay as an unlimited shopping outlet and start using it to sell all those unwanted and unloved things around your home. If that sounds too hi-tech, hold a garage sale. If the contents of your house are, ahem, not the sort of thing for which people would necessarily pay, you could always join a recycling community via freecycle.org and give your unwanted goods to the first person who will collect.

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Thick, velvet curtains, in red or any other color, can cost from $20 to $200, or sometimes even less, if you scour garage sales and freecycle communities. If you have a teeny screen, it’s even cheaper. Just get a small amount of fabric from the fabric store. Rig up a simple pulley system and viola — you’ve got the classic, movie-going backdrop.

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Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill. So I decided to have a go at Freecycling it instead, which to my surprise threw up some interesting questions about online identity.

If you’ve not come across it before, Freecycle is a group that enables you to donate unwanted goods to the local community. There also seems to be no limit to weird and wacky items offered on Freecycle - who would have thought old video tapes or 5kg of rice could find a new home?

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According to the moderator of SgFreecycle, 30-year-old Varun Arora, a recent poll was conducted on whether bartering should be allowed. Members did not subscribe to the idea.

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