Freecycle turns trash into treasure!

Sat Dec 29, 12:57 PM ET

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - When Laura Gernell heard about a place where people gave away perfectly good things to strangers — no money changing hands, no questions asked — she figured it was too good to be true.

But husband Ronald had lost his job as a truck driver and she was temporarily unemployed, at home in a rented, unfurnished apartment with her infant son. With nothing to lose, she joined The Freecycle Network, a Web-based community swap program, and asked if anyone had a sofa to spare.

Here is the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_re_us/freecycle_flourishes

I belong and help moderate our local Freecycle group~

I love this idea~ so thought I would share this with everyone.

www.freecycle.org

what is freecycle: (great question )

Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,117 groups with 3,883,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people). Membership is free. 

So go take a look, its a great way to get rid of the stuff in the garage that is in your way and still very usuable~a great way to clean out the basement or the shed or storage unit. Keeping usuable items out of our landfills and into the hands of someone who can use it is a great idea that we should spread around.

Check and see if there is a group near you today~
thanks for stopping by

Mea~