Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   bluhoteyes
   Member

   hey not sure if this has been posted before but wanted to let everyone in the US know there is a site where you can give away all your old junk away i know i have gotten rid of a bunch of things that ppl went and recycled instead of filling up the landfill i know this site is all over the place and in your city or one near you :) Join and you can either post to get rid of things or if you are in need of things you can post that also. It is http://www.freecycle.org Just one way to help save planet earth Just went too look to see if it was just in the US but it isn't it looks like a global thing that is going on :) again http://www.freecycle.org

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   graylox
   Moderator

   bluhoteyes thank you for this link, found a group here in Berlin. Had heard about it before, but did not know where and how and who.

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   bluhoteyes
   Member

   I must admit for a few friends i have supplied them with a full nursery of very nice things that weren't able to afford much i took the one girl the stuff i had gotten for her a week before she was due and she didn't have a carseat but i was able to get her one and it kept it from going in the landfill i surely love that site even though you get tons of mail if you sign up to receive all the posts:) LOL The one thing i have gotten rid of and still have like 3 more ppl on the list is empty water jugs that i use for my breathing machine they take up a lot of space in the garbage bags too so it is a win win situation if you ask me

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   funkymom
   Member

   freecyle is great. it was posted several months ago, but it is definitely worth repeating.
   thanks.
   :D

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   I remember speaking here with someone about it a few months ago.

   It does however have it's problems, such as freeloaders, they get something they don't need to sell it on.

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   bluhoteyes
   Member

   Lee you may be right that some use freecycle to sell things and they will take the time to do so , but my way of thinking is i surely don't need it and i ain't willing the take the time to try and sell it so let someone else earn a few bucks they must need it more then i do since i ain't taking the time to fix something or even taking the time to list it in the paper. So personally i don't care what they do with it once it leaves my house at least i am getting rid of some clutter:) LOL

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

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   Posted 16 years ago #
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   goodgotd
   Member

   lordy, I'm all for keeping stuff in use, but this 'green' mantra is going too far past reason. the last line in that last post is a case in point: carbon neutral with internet ads? *how?* I wanna see the math.

   Overall the 'greenhouse gas' models still haven't been proven or even gotten to match reality for beans without WAG 'corrections'... the oceans could burp more methane-bound carbon anytime in a couple of days than the last 500 years of mankind's fiddling.

   jeeze.

   Posted 16 years ago #
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   copmom
   Member

   bluhoteyes: What a lot of people do around here with those empty water jugs is cut off the bottoms and place them over new baby plants in their gardens to protect them from frost and as 'sort of' a mini-greenhouse.

   Posted 16 years ago #

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