When Amy Lemmon of South Knoxville wanted to create a woodworking station where her children could practice basic carpentry skills, she did not go to a home improvement store or lumber yard for supplies. Instead, she went to her computer. Lemmon posted her request on Knoxville’s Freecycle e-mail list and within days, she had the materials she needed.
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When Misty Combs moved into her home in Red Bank, she had no idea what new challenges it would bring.
She was still unpacking, she recalled, when a pickup truck pulled up at the sidewalk that borders her yard. The driver hopped out, calmly pulled out several pieces of furniture he was getting rid of – and set them alongside the road. Then he drove away.
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It’s time to Freecycle the bike, but to whom?
Spring is sprung, so it’s time to Freecycle, although it would take the Wisdom of Solomon to decide whose heart-rending sob story will bag the seven-speed gentleman’s bicycle. Freecycle, for the uninitiated, is a fabulous way to get rid of all that stuff you can’t bear to throw away but are too public-spirited (lazy) to sell. You simply post what you’re offering on your local website and interested parties reply; the lucky recipient collects the item and everyone’s happy.
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KIRKSVILLE, MO. — These days, it takes a lot of money just to get by.
That fact helps make online networks like ReUseIt and Freecycle more and more popular.
Here’s more on these two programs where you can either give stuff away or get stuff for free, or both.
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Do your research. See what people are willing to give away on Freecycle — if someone’s unloading their 50 square feet of eggcrate foam overlay for nothing, you may have a hard time selling such a thing in the same neighborhood. And see what people are pricing things for on Craigslist. It’ll help you figure out the best prices for your please-walk-this-off-the-lot merchandise.
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Hand-me-downs are a given, but Thomas also relies on thrift shopping–Value Village is a favourite–along with Freecycle ( www.freecycle.org), whose members give away unwanted items in order to keep useful stuff out of landfills.
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The centre has expanded its community recycling schemes over the years, initially collecting from 150 households to more than 5,000, and with help from the Friends of St Nicholas Fields launched York Freecycle five years ago, which now has 17,000 members.
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Error No. 1: I paid for lumber. Use used 2-by-4s. You might try Reno Freecycle, http://groups.freecycle.org/RenoFreecycle .
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Not to oversimplify things, but The Freecycle Network is a social network of roughly 7 million people (across 5,000 communities) who believe seriously in the concept of hand-me-downs. People use the Web-based platform to let others in their local community know about stuff they are trying to get rid of — whether it is a crib, a bicycle, whatever. The idea is to keep these items from ending up in landfills; Freecycle figures it diverts roughly 750 tons of stuff from landfills every day.
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