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Eastbourne Today: Community rallies around Eastbourne mum after fire destroys home
Kimi and Richard boxed up their unwanted items and went via Polegate to pick up the sofas they had found on Freecycle before driving to Lewes to meet Tania and her girls.
Kimi said, “She couldn’t have been more grateful.
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Providence Journal: Trash Tutorial: Tennis ball containers are tough to recycle
For right now, the best bet for the containers is to try to find alternate uses for them. Recently on freecycle.org I saw that someone had available thousands of plastic containers. I thought, there’s no way that these will move. But much to my surprise, someone wanted them and the items were passed along.
Materials exchange websites are a great way to list your unwanted or unneeded items and pass them on to others. The most heavily used sites in R.I. are www.freexchangeri.org, www.freecycle.org, and www.craigslist.com.
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Reuters: Social Sharing: The Freecycling Movement Joins Facebook
There are lots of ways to give and get quality used stuff for free. Craig’s List. Local Thrift Stores. Freecycle.org. A new effort seeks to combine these efforts with millions of Facebook users to create a freecycling powerhouse.
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Old Town Alexandria Patch: Green and Simple: Do You Freecycle?
Though most people do their major purge and deep cleaning in the spring, I am a couple of seasons behind. During our last major purge a couple of summers ago, inspired by the kids, we had a yard sale. They earned money to spend on summer vacation and donated 25% of the proceeds to the Whitehaven Foundation, a non-profit that builds schools in Haiti.
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Stone Mountain-Redan Patch: Frugal Family: Ways to Save on Halloween
– On that same note, why not sell off some of your old costumes and make a little money for this year’s? Ebay and Craigslist are great sites, and if you just want to clear out closet space but don’t care about recouping your cash, consider Freecycle.org.
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Bend Bulletin: Know your smoke points
Q: Is it possible to recycle or compost leftover pieces of fabric?
A: Small fabric scraps are the heart of patchwork quilts. If creating quilts isn’t a pastime of yours, consider donating your scraps to a church, a retirement home or a charity that collects them for quilt-making or other crafts projects. Some animal shelters accept fabric scraps for pet bedding. Martha Stewart Living donates fabric to Materials for the Arts (www.mfta.org), a New York City organization that supplies schools and arts programs. Look for a similar group in your area. Another option is the Freecycle Network (www.freecycle.org), an online community that lets you post anything you’re willing to give away
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Green & Save: How YOU Can Go Green with SIM Only Deals
Major retailers such as Radio Shack, Office Depot, Best Buy and Staples will refurbish phones and resell them to the public. The information on the phone will be replaced, and a new SIM card will be installed. The phone will then be useable, and the environment will be in a better condition. Freecycle.org is a website that also recycles phones for new customers.
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Indianapolis Star: Remodeled home in Irvington stays true to its history
The last time the kitchen was remodeled was 1981. Gulde worked with contractor Corey Van de Vanter of Handy Vanter to replace the ceiling and some walls. He took the floors down to the original planks and donated the cabinetry on free cycle.org.
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NJ.com: If you need it, Freecycle probably has it
With her first child on the way, Jessica Jacobson put her wallet aside and turned to a network of used-item recyclers to get all of the baby things she would need.
She found almost everything on Freecycle, an online community of recycle-conscious people who give items away rather than see them end up in a landfill.
“We got most of the essentials that we needed, and that was one of the things that told us this is great,” the Princeton Borough resident said. She has been a member of the network since 2007.
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