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TreeHugger Picks: Ways to Get Free (and Nearly Free) Stuff

by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 03. 6.06
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Inspired by today's episode of TreeHugger TV about Swap-O-Rama Rama, we thought now would be a good time to remind our dear readers about some other ways to alternately get rid of stuff you don't want and get stuff for free or next to nothing. Remember, what goes around comes around...

1) Tired of paying for food? Have a go at dumpster diving for your food.
2) Groundscout.com enlists the help of others in tracking down good stuff that others have tossed out.
3) The Joystick project is lending a hand by putting signs on still-usable refuse in Barcelona.
4) Blockrocker.com will help you find anything you'd normally find in the classifieds all locally, including carpools and ride-shares.
5) For the burgeoning computer construction/repair enthusiast, there's DIYparts.org, a free exchange of computer parts and components.
6) Swap-O-Matic (a prototype that's the thesis project of a student in NYC) is a vending machine that allows you to give away things you don't need, and get things you like, all for free.
7) Finally, of course there's Freecycle, the city-by-city network of giving and getting for free.

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How can you overlook craigslist?
The free stuff category is chock full of couches, washing machines and extra doors left on city corners

jump to top Emilia says:

Don't forget Craigs List's free section! I've use it often as a college student in Boston.

jump to top Jeremiah says:

I might also point out paperbackswap.com, a fairly new site for trading paperbacks where all you pay is postage. It's pretty cool.

jump to top donna says:

love this site ...

jump to top j says:

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