Check out Freecycle

I don't know if you ladies have heard of freecycle or not. The idea is to keep things out of the landfills by recycling things you no longer want to others. I have gotten so much baby stuff from doing this. Its awesome!
I have gotten several boxes of clothes in wonderful condition and name brands!
Toddler swing
John Deer gator power wheel
Books and tons of toys!
Moses basket bassinet
Stride rite baby shoes
baby rocker/chair
stereo for the baby's room
radio flyer tricycle
wow and I can't even remember what all I have gotten.

We have also gotten things over the last year like a fridge for our garage,TV, VCR, and our biggest score was our apache pop up camper. The lady was moving and she wasn't able to sell it so she gave it away.

Its also a great way to get rid of things you know longer want. You do have to watch the freecycle daily. I opened a seperate email just for my freecycle so it wouldn't get mixed in with my personal email.

If you are interested. www.freecycle.org and look for your state and then your city.

I got these clothes and toys and seat yesterday and today from freecycle:


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this is my favorite:

Oh my gosh, that lion outfit is SO CUTE!!

We do freecycle, too, but not so much lately. Dh is the one to drive all over the place to pick things up but now he works longer hours much further away so we haven't had much luck. I don't go because with 4 kids with 4 different bus schedules, I basically can't get away from the house.

Our biggest items gotten have been a HDTV, not flat panel, that had a blown fuse. The people lived in a wealthy area and had it fixed once, it blew again and they said the heck with it and got a new one instead. For under 50 cents, my dh fixed it and it is awesome! We also got an entertainment center (someone else) and it is perfect for the room. The free tv sits on the free entertainment center, lol!

I just tried to sign onto freecycle, I was surprised that I have to wait to be approved, I had to send another email, i guess it's good, i'm waiting to hear back so I can start looking to see what is on there!!!

Yeah I used to be an avid freecycler when I was a SAHM 3 years ago and I recvd and gave away a ton of quality stuff.

I even made some friends whom I still keep in touch with.

Lately the group has grown soo tremendously that I was sick of receiving the emails so I left the group..

But have recently rejoined in hopes of getting some baby gear (I got some awesome, quality things for my son when he was a baby).

Its so huge here though, it is hard to filter through all the posts. The one here, caters to my city, and surrounding cities...which makes it a true cluster f*ck sometimes to deal with.

Also as PP mentioned, driving around town all over the place...was an issue. It was fine when I was a SAHM and had the time...but not now.

I have also heard of this, but never checked it out. So I just signed. I am waitng for the ok.

Have I been living under a rock? I have never heard of this. I am going to check it out RIGHT this second.

my friend was just telling me about this over the weekend...i also never heard of it...she said she had gotten her 7ft xmas tree and some other things...well i found out my DH knew about this, he has an account and NEVER TOLD ME!! WHAT? are you kidding...i could have been looking all this time for a free swing and bouncer...the nerve of him...haha so im going to be going on tonight and looking!!

I signed up last week and am still waiting on authorization...hmmmm

I am still waiting for approvel.

Tonight I picked up a cd player for the baby's room and a black & decker under the counter can opener, new in the box. Right after xmas people were cleaning out all the old stuff to make room for the new stuff. Thats when I got 3 trash bags full of toys for Jacob. Sometimes you take a chance of the stuff not being so nice but when people list the area they are from I can usually tell if its going to be nice stuff. I will warn you depending on your area you can get a lot of freecycle emails so you may want to check into a seperate email address just for the freecycle. Your inbox will fill up fast. You can also list wanted posts. In my area you are allowed to list 1 wanted post per week. A while back I listed Wanted: Treadmill. Sure enough we got one. A lady had one sitting in her basement collecting dust. Its electric and really nice. We looked it up and its worth about $700.

It was hard to pick stuff up when I was working but between my DH and I we would take turns. Now that I am home I have more flexibility. I told my DH to be on the look out for clothes 12months and up!

I am a freecycle junkie!

Dee

LGTWifey wrote:Have I been living under a rock? I have never heard of this. I am going to check it out RIGHT this second.

hahaha I knew nothing about it until my DH told me a while back. We are about an hour from Richmond and my husband signed up for the Richmond freecycle. He keeps an eye on that!

Dee

Thank You SO much!! I am meeting someone tomorrow to get a changing pad and a couple covers for it. I am hoping that maybe I can find some other baby things on there and won't have to buy so much!! I had never heard of this before! THANK YOU AGAIN!! The only thing that sucks is... the group I am in is for a town that is about a hour away, so maybe I can try to get stuff some the little towns between here and there!!

Lacie

I'll try to take a picture or two and let you girls see what I got.... and I got a few more things off ebay.....

DH and I have been doing a massive cleansing of old stuff from our house for about the last year, and we have been freecycling a LOT of it. It's so great to know that it's not going into the landfills, and it's easy since people come and pick it all up. I hadn't even thought to look for baby gear, though, so I'll have to check it out.

I signed up too but ofcourse there is nothing real close to me. We live out in the country but the town we live in has 2000 people only so it wasnt on there. But I did sign up for Iowa City since Madison's up there and 2 other towns 1 hour away. Thats the closest to me. Thanks for the tip as it would be fun to get some things free.lol

Your welcome ladies! Its a great way to save some money and get some great stuff and a great way to get rid of stuff. Good luck I hope you guys get your approvals soon!

Dee

I love freecycle for some things. I havent gotten some things already broken and had to get rid of it myself. I dont like it when they give you a description of somthing but forget to say its been left out in the rain for 2 yrs. Looks like some nice finds! Good deal.

I am still waiting for approval. GRRRRRRRRR

I shot them another email and finally got approval today!

Yay! I hope you can find some good stuff!

Dee

yay! I got approved.
so u just reply to the things that u can use and set up with the people to pick it up??? that's it??

yep that's it. Good Luck!

Dee

Woohoo......just picked up a high chair!! I know I won't need it for a while but now we have one!

Dee