by Hope
..I’ve recently found a local Buy Nothing Facebook group. The concept is to ask and give things for free. Their mission is:
We offer people a way to give and receive, share, lend, and express gratitude through a worldwide network of hyper-local gift economies in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors.
Our local administrator is consistently prompting people to ask for things their would otherwise buy that week. And many, mostly women, post their home purges.
I love the concept and have used it myself several time recently to get rid of things. When you don’t want to take the time to try to sell or donate things, it’s a great alternative.
One of the things I’m doing this month as one of my “to dos” is going room to room to purge things we don’t need AND decorate a bit. I’m not decorating as in buying things, but rather finding a place for things and making it look more organized and presentable around here.
As much as the rooms and occupants have moved around in this home, it’s become a bit of a modge podge. I’m going to create order and even a since of normalcy…
And I’m going to use the Buy Nothing group to deal with the purge! Anyone else getting the spring cleaning itch and starting to clean out closets and drawers?
Not a Heavy Lift to Help Others
One other thing I like about the group is that they are always soliciting help for people in need. And frankly, having a large community of people pitching in makes it a light lift to help a lot of people without being burdened. There are often grocery bags to fill or clothing needs.
Do you have a Buy Nothing group in your area? Or something similar service to help others AND facilitate giving and receiving needed items?
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 5 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
I have a Bidding Wars group – not free, but a LOT of stuff at much lower prices. I have updated my wardrobe lately with quite a few pieces from there – but a lot of folks use it to purge and make a little bit extra.
Gymnast has been selling his “no longer want it” clothes on a couple of sites to make some fun/clothes money. He’s also selling them to his local friends via social media.
Buy Nothing groups are great! I love my local one. On a selfish level, it’s an incredibly easy way to spring clean, since you can just put items on your front porch after posting about them, instead of driving to Good Will On an environmental level, I love that it reduces waste since someone is reusing my stuff. And on a community level, it feels great to help out when for example someone posts about a family in need and you can be part of a group that gets them the things they need.
YES! To all this!