I absolutely LOVE freecycle.org

This site is so fantastic.  You can post WANTED or OFFER and get rid of or receive things, just like that.  It works so fast it can make your head spin.  Go to www.freecycle.org, join the yahoo group in your area, and boom, you are giving and receiving free things.  I posted a wanted for a basketball hoop... got it within an hour.  My daughter and I have been playing at least a half hour a day, making many baskets at regulation height I might add. Someone posted a WANTED for her sister who had been out with a back surgery and needed clothes to go back to work.  I had clothes!  I freecycle'd at least six bags of clothes.  It's wonderful because it helped me to clean up and helped someone else at the same time.  My desktop monitor went crazy on me, I posted a WANTED and received a free monitor within minutes.  Did I need to buy a monitor before Christmas?  No! 

I subscribed to freecycle in another state because my good friend there was slow to start and I wanted to find things for her.  I love to annoy her with "OFFER: Bunny, leash and potty trained, free to good home."  She doesn't want or need a bunny... I did find someone in this state who needed clothing for her children to have Christmas presents and tomorrow I am mailing 3 outfits each, with winter hats and gloves.  It's such a powerful thing.

Check it out, www.freecycle.org, and see if you can give and receive rather than continue on the purchasing pattern we are all on.