So this has nothing to do with food, but here's another freebie for you...and I, personally, love this because it's totally in the spirit of my mother. She wasn't exactly a hoarder, but she had hoarder-like tendencies. She was very environmentally friendly, and couldn't envision sending something to the dump if she (or anybody, really) could get just one more use out of it. Thus, we had a "junk pile" in the back of the basement that had some... unusual... stuff in it. Like, a neighbor got a new TV, gave us his old, 25-inch one, but we still had a working 13-inch one, and she didn't want to send it to the dump... because it still worked... but she didn't know anyone who would want one.. and she could sell it, but it wasn't worth having a yard sale way out in the woods unless you had a big one. And somehow, the "junk pile" never seemed to get to "yard sale" proportions.
So this thing here... she would have loved it.
http://my.freecycle.org/
You sign up with an e-mail address, pick your hometown from a list (unlike Craigslist, many small towns are on freecycle) and post to the group if you have something to give away. In the e-mail newsletters, you'll see posts from other users. I've given away a couch, a coffee table, a roll of carpet, and a box of books.
It's good for the environment. It promotes the idea of "neighborhood". And it's free!
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