Freecycle

I love giving things away on Freecycle! Really, how can you beat it? It's free, it's a wonderful way to recycle, and you get that good feeling of knowing you are helping someone out. In the past we've Freecycled:

a treadmill (to a Humane Society--for people *and* the animals to use)
big bags of styrofoam peanuts (part of a tactile experience for autistic kids)
truck box
used VHS tapes (to a Vo-Tech school)
women and men's clothing
2 kites
loveseat and couch cover

Today I gave 35 plastic flower pots, in various condition, to a local lady. She was so excited to get them, and I was so excited to get them out of my house (first stored in the crawl space, then in the garage for the last couple of months.) Some of them are pots we purchased plants in at our local nursery, and some are the type pots you can buy at any big box store.




By the way, my CSA gladly takes back the little flimsy four packs that I bought plants in from them, as well as the hard plastic trays. Check with your CSA, local farmers, or nursery. I bet at least one of them would be glad to reuse them and not have to put out the money that each container represents.