Wilmington Freecycle
I’ve been checking out a local/national service after hearing an interview with one of the founders on netsquared: freecycle.org is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.”
The stuff changing hands is interesting. So is the dialect that springs up around the quick exchange of free stuff. Recent entries from the Yahoo! group for the Wilmington freecyclers (I get it in daily email digest form) include a free storm door, request for a WAGON, request for a “LARGE old WOODEN DESK”, dog toys, hamster cages. Many of the participants are apparently collecting and using freecycled stuff for their non-profit work, though that isn’t required. Seem to be a lot of college students and others interested in the system of it, as I am, in how it functions as a market.
moving boxes to give away
wilmington nc 28409
That’s the spirit, Candy. But I don’t think anyone will see the offering here — you need to post that to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wilmington-free/, where Wilmington Freecyclers do their thing.
Just committed my first act of freecycling — a woman from fullbellyproject.org — who are going to be on CNN soon, she said — came by to pick up a nearly-new charcoal grill we weren’t using anymore — and she was one of around 30 people who wrote back to me right away saying they’d love it and would come get it!
I’m hooked. Doing good, getting rid of junk without filling the landfills…I’m looking around for the next several objects to freecycle.