Getting cheap / free stuff [View all]

Sometimes we all need something.

And sometimes when we take it for free we actually do someone a favor.

https://www.freecycle.org/

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 5,270 groups with 9,052,729 members around the world. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them's good people). Membership is free.

it's usually either a forum discussion thread (often yahoo) or more commonly a mailing list
one posts what one wants to get rid of instead of just curb siding it
and then give people a couple of days to contact you, then come get it

or one can post 'wanted' (let's be real here though, 'used old laptop' might happen, 'newest macbook' or what ever won't)

still, freecycle can be a great resource that both saves money and the environment/landfills

http://Craigslist.org , normally not free but can be pretty cheap

Would love to see more ideas of this sort, at which point i'll pin or create pinned thread for them