Some New Yorkers completely avoid the retail industrial complex – often while building a sense of community – by dumpster diving, swapping, borrowing and freecycling. Or, they reduce outlays by comparison shopping, penny pinching and reselling what they have.
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Freecycle is a good online resource where you can give and receive pre-loved gear at no cost. For safety reasons, some items are better purchased new, such as capsules, car seats and cots. If you are buying a second-hand cot, ensure it complies with current Australian standards. Visit www.productsafety.gov.au for more information.
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Look for Deals
Now, nobody is suggesting that you stop spending money altogether, but perhaps it is time to look at becoming more frugal. Do you need to pay full price for everything? Probably not. You can use coupons at the grocery store, and use restaurant vouchers to enjoy a treat for half the price. There are excellent bargains to be found on eBay.com, and don’t dismiss getting items for free from freecycle at freecycle.org. It really is true that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so shun your preconceptions and consider thinking outside of the box when you need new items for your home and family. By being more frugal in your spending, you are freeing up dollars that can be directed into that savings account.
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DUDLEY Council is urging people to take a hi-tech approach to giving unwanted items a second lease of life.
The website Freecycle allows people to advertise items which may otherwise be dumped in landfill for other site users to collect.
The Dudley Freecycle group has more than 12,000 members, items recently offered include an extending table with four chairs, house bricks and a steel pedal bin.
For more information visit www.dudley.gov.uk/recycling
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You don’t need to contribute to our island’s landfill problems just because you have stuff that needs to go. Instead, how about donating all that useless but otherwise still viable hardware to the recycling day at Baldwin High School?
Hammerhead Recycling and Community Work Day Program have hui’d together to coordinate this day of sustainability with several other of the island’s recycling agencies. On Saturday, Feb. 25, bring scrap metal, bicycles, appliances, beverage containers, cooking oil, cellular phones, household batteries, vehicle batteries, laptop batteries, printer cartridges, newspaper, cardboard, telephone books, magazines, plastic grocery bags, used eye glasses, hearing aids, books, reusable paint, clothing and other household items to the high school between 8am and 2pm. You will be rid of these items, and keep them out of the landfill.
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“If it’s your first apartment and you can’t afford to go to Pottery Barn, you can try Freecycle,” said Ashamalla.
Freecycle is a place where people in your community post things they don’t want or need anymore.
An Arlington-based Freecycle community recently offered a computer printer and an espresso machine. The idea is to keep things out of a landfill, and people are encouraged to give and take.
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Worth a look is Freecycle.com, an online community that matches people who have items they want to get rid of to people who can use them. Not only kind on the environment by reducing landfill, but it is great for the pocket, too.
As one of the main rules of Freecycle is a “pick up yourself” policy, your local group is a handy way of getting rid of large items you would normally have to pay to have removed, such as garden furniture and sheds.
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That is, until she found the support she needed. Jen and thousands of others are using different Facebook sites to get much needed emotional support, or just to save some money. “There’s a local free cycle group that if you just want to clean out your garage and give something to somebody who can use it instead of letting it go in the landfill,” says Wolfe.
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Big Stuff and Old Threads
Furniture, appliances and clothing may be broken, dated and outgrown, but still have plenty of use left in them. If the clothing isn’t threadbare, wash and donate it to a resale charity like Goodwill Industries or the Salvation Army. An alternative is to consign clothing through a shop or sell it through a neighborhood coop or online resale site. You can create a swap recycling system for children’s clothes with neighbors, family or school friends. Furniture can go to charity resellers like Housing Works or Salvation Army, church bazaars, online sales or to The Freecycle Network. If the furniture is trashed enough to be trash, break it down and put appropriate materials in various recycling bins for metals and plastics. Untreated wood and some fabrics might go in your compost pile. Household appliances that no longer work go to scrap metal recyclers or municipal dumps that handle those items.
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Freecycle. Freecycle allows you to get items for free that other people no longer want. There are around 5,000 Freecycle groups and over eight million members throughout the world. The price can’t be beat, but the site may not have what you are looking for and popular items are snatched up quickly.
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