4.Use FreeCycle – a website where people give away stuff for free: www.freecycle.org
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Pebblemag.com: 16 Easy Ways To Save The World For Free
11. Freecycle – giving away items for free
Instead of throwing away items, give them away for free with Freecycle..
Freecycle is a grassroots and entirely non profit movement to help people give away their stuff for free.
With a network across the globe, made up of 5,000 local town groups, simply sign up and find a town (or more) near you.
By making posts about things you’d like to receive, other members can reply and arrange a pick up time.
Whether giving or taking, Freecycle is a great place to browse on a budget.
https://pebblemag.com/magazine/doing/16-easy-ways-to-save-the-world-for-free
The Sun: Eight ways to make your own clothes with our guide to needlework
Here is how to get it without spending a fortune.
IT’S A SNIP: Aldi sells portable sewing machines for £34.99.
Look on Facebook and Freecycle for ones that are being given away.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/18502675/eight-ways-save-money-needlework-clothes-sewing/
BBC.co.uk: Nappies added to roads ‘doubles life of surfaces’
Developers of a trial using nappies to make roads say it could mean the surfaces last twice as long.
The project is being piloted in Wales, and it could mean fewer nappies are thrown into landfill.
Fibre from nappies is added to bitumen glueing together asphalt road surfaces.
The Welsh government is backing the project with £180,000 funding, and a stretch of the A487 between Aberystwyth and Cardigan in Ceredigion has already been replaced with the nappy formula.
Wharfedale Observer: Small Change
We nearly all have an example of an ‘impulse buy’ which we have never actually worn. So, it’s brand new and someone else will want it and wear it. Take it to a charity shop, offer it on Freecycle or sell it on Ebay and recoup some of what you spent. One person’s ‘spur of the moment buy’ is another person’s ‘marvelous find’.
https://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/20113515.small-change/
The Sun: Six tricks to save money by sharing with neighbours – from car pooling to garden tools
WHAT A GIVEAWAY: Neighbourhood WhatsApp groups are great for giving away items, such as kids’ clothes, toys, old furniture and books.
Also explore apps like Nextdoor and Freecycle which have items being given away locally.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/18370697/tips-save-money-neighbours-community/
HarperJames.co.uk: Meet the client: Deron Beal, Founder of The Freecycle Network
Our popular Meet the client series reveals the inside story on the organisations we support with legal services. This time, we caught up with Deron Beal, Founder and Executive Director of The Freecycle Network. He shares his inspirational story of building the largest nonprofit international gifting community and keeping over a thousand tons out of landfills and incinerators each day.
https://harperjames.co.uk/news/meet-the-client-deron-beal-the-freecycle-network/
BBC.co.uk: The people fighting price rises by trying to buy nothing
At Freecycle, a similar site where participants typically offer up some 20,000 items each day, the number of posts each day has increased by about 15% in recent months, driven by the financial concerns, founder, Deron Beal says.
“People, understandably, they’re buying petrol or going to the store and seeing high prices…seek to pinch their pennies a little bit and Freecycle… is a good alternative,” he says.
Even families with higher incomes, who might ordinarily be insulated from the pressures, are reconsidering their ordinary spending, says Tania Brown, a financial planner based in Georgia, with more than 20 years’ experience.
“There is an across-the-board sense of worry about inflation: ‘How long is this going to last, how this is going to impact their daily life’,” she says. “I am definitely hearing differences and changes.”
Scottish Sun: Nine top deals on essential gardening tools every beginner needs
GET IT FREE: See if you can pick up tools, plant pots and other gardening bits without paying a penny on Freecycle, Freegle, Freelywheely or Trash Nothing – or very cheaply via Gumtree and Facebook Marketplace. Not only will this save you money, it will prevent unwanted items from going into landfill.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/money/8282105/nine-top-deals-essential-gardening-tools/
Cwmbran Life: Don’t be scammed by ‘Facebook fly-tippers’- check if the business has a licence
Fly-tipping Action Wales also encourages people to reduce the amount of waste they have to dispose of by using services such as Freecycle, donating unwanted items to local charities and looking into the free and paid services your local council has available.