Two Free Ways to Go Green - Reuse and trade

I’m pretty excited about two websites that I’ve been using lately FreeCycle.org and Swaptree.com. It’s like a huge never ending online garage sale. What a great bunch of like minded people exchanging, and trading items that they don’t use anymore for something they do need. Virtually no money is exchanged and useable items are not being thrown needlessly into our landfills do to plain laziness or lack of options of what to do with the item you no longer need.

FreeCycle.org is free to join and it comprises of a continually growing population of 4,775 groups and approximately 7 million members worldwide. FreeCycle.org is a non-profit organization and it’s all about generous people giving and receiving all kinds of free items in the own home town.
Their primary goals are to:
• Keep useable items out of our landfills
• Reuse someone’s junk is sometimes someone’s treasure
The Freecycle Organization is a volunteer army. All towns participating in the program are moderated by a local volunteer. Here’s the link to sign-up.

Swaptree.com is a cool website that lets you trade books music and video games. There is no charge for listing ads and most items can be mailed for $2.50 via US Media Mail. It’s easy to list items you just type in the ISBN number located on the back of the item you are trading into their search engine. Trade requests are emailed to you. You don’t even need to go to the post office you can print postage directly from Swaptree. Currently, if you refer friends to the website you can earn free shipping.
You can even provide trader feedback similar to Ebay.

I encourage my fans to check out these two great resources and let me know what you think. I love books and I enjoy the thrill of the finding something free hunt. Happy hunting!