Instant Survey: Are You A Packrat?
by Erin Courtenay - Madison, WI
on 05.26.06
One of the more exciting green-novations to be born from online communities is the exchange platform for used goods (think Ebay and Freecycle). However, these services are only as good as the products that are put into them. The third toaster from your wedding cache that you keep just in case the other two break could be sent out to the world to lighten the load of the planet's product-consumption burden, but for packrats, that can be a tough call to make.
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