WoodSprite
10-14-2008, 09:36 AM
If you live near a good-sized city, there's a great resource called "Freecycle", which is sort of a Craigslist-type thing, only everything is free. You do have to sign up for a Yahoo Groups account, since it's a subscription listserv. There are 4,600+ groups, and almost 6 million members.
Now sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes folks are just looking for somebody to take their trash away for them for free. But I've been a member for a couple of years, and I've only gotten burned twice.
A partial list of handy items we've gotten includes 12' of insulated stove pipe, lots of cinderblocks, a perfectly good skylight, several nice old doors, a wicker rocker, lots of canning jars, a great old 1940's propane cookstove, and a tiny little woodstove. We also borrowed an expensive log chain (yep - from a total stranger), and even scored one or two music gigs - it's a cool way to meet your neighbors. And, of course, to get rid of the stuff that didn't sell at your last garage sale.
http://www.freecycle.org/
Now sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes folks are just looking for somebody to take their trash away for them for free. But I've been a member for a couple of years, and I've only gotten burned twice.
A partial list of handy items we've gotten includes 12' of insulated stove pipe, lots of cinderblocks, a perfectly good skylight, several nice old doors, a wicker rocker, lots of canning jars, a great old 1940's propane cookstove, and a tiny little woodstove. We also borrowed an expensive log chain (yep - from a total stranger), and even scored one or two music gigs - it's a cool way to meet your neighbors. And, of course, to get rid of the stuff that didn't sell at your last garage sale.
http://www.freecycle.org/