Freecycle is such an awesome webite. It's one of the yahoo groups you can join. Freecycle has different chapters for different cities or counties. What you do is you can post things that you want to get rid of or you can put a request out for something you would like. People then reply by sending you e-mails. But it all has to be free. No one can charge you for anything (and you can't either). It is so awesome. The point of this is to keep people from just throwing still usuable stuff in the garbage. I've had many things I've given away already and let me tell you it has freed up so much space in my apartment!! lol
But one of the reasons I'm blabering about this site is because just last night I posted an offer for a box of Star Wars books, about 25 in all. I got soooooo many e-mail about them!!!! The only thing I hate is trying to decide who to give the things too. In most cases I'll just give it to the first person who e-mailed me. But I think I received between 10-15 e-mails asking if they were still available. When something is taken, you just post again saying TAKEN: (Item goes here). I posted my TAKEN thing, but I'm still getting e-mails about it. It has amazed me how many e-mails I got over a box of Star Wars books! But I'm glad they have a new home.
Anyway, enough about that. I know it's probably boring, but I just couldn't believe it. Lol. And had posted canned corn on there too (I had a bunch from costco that never got openned and would have never been used at my house) and I had probably 6-8 people e-mail about it. About frickin CORN! lol
Ok ok really. I'm just going to link their website so you can check it out.
http://www.freecycle.org/group/US
Alright, signing off for tonight. Sorry I don't have anything a little more interesting than that. Lol. Maybe next time (but probably not). ;)
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Hi! I didn't know you had a blog. It looks really nice. Guess you haven't heard anything from WF about the job yet. You know what occurred to me when you were talking about taking pictures of your babysitter's son? I wonder if a small preschool or daycare would hire you to take "class" or individual pictures. Some of them might like to find someone just starting out who could offer them a discount. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteLibrarything... I got mad at them because once you post 200 books, that's all you can do without buying a subscription! That's not fair... 200 books is like, nothing. :P I love the concept, and need to find out if there's a similar site that actually IS free!
Hiya Jen!
ReplyDeleteI finally found you. I'm not sure why your blog doesn't show up for me on your profile. Regardless, I found it on Sam's profile.
That freecycle thing sounds interesting. I wonder if stuff like 'small packet of pocket lint' would receive e-mails. I know stuff like that sells on ebay. I'll have to check the site out!
I'm off to read the rest of your posts.
Catch ya later =)