The Freecycle Network

We get such amazing things in there.

And like, if I totted up the amount of money I've saved by using Freecycle, using Facebook marketplace, spending time in my tip shop, I think it would have been an order of magnitude larger than what I put in that blog.

But I realize, and my colleagues do often point this out to me, that not everybody has the same love of that sort of secondhand bargain hunting as I do.

But for those people, it is getting easier and easier to choose secondhand in a similar sort of way, with a similar sort of experiences as you'd get looking on an online marketplace.

... bashing Disney.

You know, Andy sent me a picture today of, um, one of those Freecycle bags, the ones we gave away at TDC, the, you know, everything tastes better.

It was f- you know, food tastes better when it's Freecycle or whatever it was.

And I realized I don't have one of those.

I never got one of those.

You don't have a Freecycle bag?

Mm-mm.

Oh, I got, like, I'm looking at, like, five of them right now.

Uh, there's Buy Nothing.

It's the Buy Nothing Project, and Freecycle are two of those where you can, uh, check with people, uh, and see if they're trying to give s- "I'm trying to get something," the, "I want something." It's not a swap necessarily, but it's a way that you can use, uh, other stuff that people have in your area and, uh, get it for free.

And it, like I said, my neighbors love it.

They do it all the time.

And, um, and so that was kind of what pushed me to, to buy a couple clothes.

But two other things that I looked into that were great were, um, Freecycle.

I don't know if anyone's familiar with Freecycle, but lots of people, um, posting things on there that you...

It's basically like an exchange.

People who don't wanna send their things to the dump, um, and they'll post and say, "Hey, I have, you know, an old TV.

... comes into conversation.

So recently I've been selling off or giving away for free in the main on Freecycle bits that we don't need.

They're perfectly lovely, but we don't need them 'cause we just need to declutter a little bit, although I am relatively tidy.

And, um, um, one of ...

This is an example of little things that give me joy.

Um, I had a, we had an extra Dyson, put it up on the Freecycle thing and, um, a woman said, "Oh, yeah, I'd, um...

Can- I'm only local to you.

Can I pop and get it?" I said, "Yeah, yeah.

I don't personally, but my missus is on it every whip and flip.

Um, Freecycle.

You ever use Freecycle?

Um, years and years ago.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Gods, it's got a booming, I'm not gonna say business, because it's just a forum for giving-

Oh, were you giving, were you giving things away, or was you collecting things? I love Freecycle.