Extreme Frugality
The Freegan Kitchen- gourmet cooking with your dumpster dive discoveries.
Much less extreme:
Freecycle- these groups are all over the country, even in my tiny town. People pass on items they have to give away or requests. Nothing can be sold. Say somebody sends a message saying they have baby clothes, a dining room table, and an old television to give away. You email back saying you want the dining room table, they tell you if you get it and where you need to pick it up, and you go pick it up.
You sign up to be on an email list. If you don't like getting emails, set your account for web only, and sign in at yahoogroups to read and send messages.
Here's more from their website:
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,810 groups with 7,245,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on “Browse Groups” above the search box. Have fun!
Craig's List is another good place for free stuff.
Both of these last two options are also great places for getting rid of your stuff when you simplify your life.
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2 Responses to “Extreme Frugality”
June 11th, 2010 at 7:27 am
I love Freecycle. I have been using it mostly for the decluttering aspect — although I got two copies of The Tightwad Gazette through it. It’s great for when you have one or two things that wouldn’t necessarily be accepted as donations, but you *know* someone could use (for instance, that’s where our potty training chair and foam diaper changing pad went).
June 11th, 2010 at 9:35 am
I don’t dumpster dive, but I am currently trying to only buy reduced products (which are generally reduced because it’s the day of their ‘best before’)
I’ve saved a lot of money, and have the excitement of cooking with what you have rather than always having a plan!
I’ve been blogging about it too.
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