burning man

do you like to have garage sales? i don't either.

do you like to list stuff on craigslist? we have done it a couple of times and it has worked fine.

do you like to sell stuff through the want ads? not my cup of tea.

do you have something that is in good shape but you don't want/need it anymore and would like to get rid of it but hate to just throw it away and don't want to bother with selling it so finally end up just keeping it anyhow? go check this out: http://freesharing.org/

this web site shows groups in your area who put the word out to registered people and free stuff disappears easily. not that i know that by experience, but once i registered (it's yahoo and a no-brainer) i could look at what was out there. it's like craigslist, in that it's grass-roots, and i like the i-don't-need-it-and-you-can-have-it idea.

there is a group in our county, as well as in the black hills and lincoln, and several groups in the rochester, phoenix, and oklahoma city areas.

neat, huh?! it reminds me of the burning man idea.

there's a second site out there doing that type of thing -- http://www.freecycle.org/group/ -- but it took f-o-r-eeeeeee-v-e-r for the web site to come up and they didn't seem to have as extensive a network.