3. Make a list of the things you miss from the large office infrastructure – but my guess is that infrastructure is overrated. You can buy/rent/borrow/loan and even freecycle most items on your list.
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The Telegraph: ‘Sharing saves us £20,000 a year’
Household furniture, tools and appliances are also increasingly shared. Popular online sites that allow people to do this include freecycle.org, swapz.co.uk and netcycler.co.uk.
Through these you can trade – or simply rent – household appliances.
If you are giving something away – through Freecycle, say – you have the satisfaction of knowing it is not wasted. But renting is also beneficial to both parties with items like steam cleaners, wallpaper strippers, strimmers and other goods commonly hired out for a small charge.
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The Age.com: Online recycling the gift that keeps on giving
The last time you peered into your shed or spare room, did you look at all the unused items and wonder: why do I have so much stuff? If the answer is ”yes”, you’re not alone. A 2008 report by the Australia Institute states that 88 per cent of Australian homes have at least one cluttered room and that ”four in 10 Australians say they feel anxious, guilty or depressed about the clutter in their homes”.
Little wonder then that Australia is part of a worldwide backlash against consumerism. One of the big ideas is so-called ”collaborative consumption” – the notion that we can share resources, rather than having to own them individually. And this is where Freecycle comes in.
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PhillyBurbs.com: $aving Bucks through Freecycle
Nothing beats the economic blues like free stuff.
So many, including myself, are turning to Freecycle, a network of communities dedicated to giving and getting things — furniture, toys, clothes, etc. — all for free.
It’s another feel-good online destination to help you save money and reduce clutter.
Freecycle, its website touts, is about “keeping things out of the landfill, sharing an item that retains usefulness, clearing out unused clutter and community.”
It is not a charity, a “lending closet, a free-for-all, a means to get as much free stuff as you can, a way to get more stuff to sell or auction” or “a way (to stop) from taking your broken items to the dump if that’s where they belong.”
The ground rules are straightforward. Everything has to be free, legal and appropriate for all ages.
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Bella Online: Getting Rid of Large Household Items
Freecycle – The advantage of using freecycle is that the person who gets it is responsible for taking it away.
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Yahoo Finance: How to furnish a home for free
She regularly picks up materials that are being sent to the tip by owners, and combs websites such as Freecycle and Gumtree to pick up bargains.
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Poughkeepsie Journal: Sharing gains popularity as greener option
The nonprofit Freecycle Network, which runs a Craigslist-style website where people can list items they want to give away, pioneered using the Internet to facilitate diverting reusable goods from landfills when it launched back in 2003. To date, more than nine million individuals across 5,000 regions have used the group’s freecycle.org website to find new homes for old items.
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The Mercury: Sharing is cool: It’s the environmental key to maintaining our quality of life
The non-profit Freecycle Network, which runs a Craigslist-style website where people can list items they want to give away, pioneered using the Internet to facilitate diverting reusable goods from landfills when it launched back in 2003. To date, more than nine million individuals across 5,000 different regions have used the group’s freecycle.org website to find new homes for old items.
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The Guardian: A-Z baby on a budget
F is for Freecycle
However much you fight against becoming a neurotic parent – with a home that breeds pint-sized equipment as fast as sick stains appear on the sofa – you plunge into a world that requires an inordinate amount of stuff for remarkably short periods of time. This leads to the constant problem of where to store it, which probably explains why so many transactions on Freecycle involve baby gear. The online recycling forum is simply the best place to discover that someone in your area has a load of unwanted bits and pieces that will save you a fortune (freecycle.org).
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West Island Gazette: Bill Tierney: :Downsizing, upsizing are only a couple of clicks away
Are you looking for a Japanese dish set, black with red chop sticks? Perhaps not.
How about a queen-size bed?
How about upping the stakes to two twin mattresses plus a queen mattress and then throw in a box spring? Or maybe you could use a tube to put blueprints in, at least four feet long? Or a 74-inch custom-made vertical blind, part beige and part black? And while you’re at it, you might want to grab a crystal bowl with plastic cups and one spoon.
You probably won’t want those two 1950s tables, both missing legs. One is white and silver Formica, the other is faux bois. Apparently both tables seat four to six people, with or without the leaves, which the owner can give you, and your guests will be very happy as long as they don’t mind eating at odd angles where the legs are missing.
It’s all yours, free. All you have to do is pick the stuff up. You can check out the list of available giveaways at www.freecycle.org. It’s like an online garage sale with no money changing hands. Join the Montreal group. When signed up, a reader writes, a daily email comes with all the new wanted and unwanted items listed.
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