Parents can check if their child’s school or Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has a second-hand selling group, where you may be able to pick up pre-loved items. While this might not be available at every school, you could try organising your own second-hand sale with the school or check social media sites and apps such as Facebook Marketplace or Freecycle.
4.Use FreeCycle – a website where people give away stuff for free: www.freecycle.org
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
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/
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.
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/
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/
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/
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.”
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/
