Free greenhouse! (Photo by tanais) Bargains are great, but getting something for free is divine. To celebrate Earth Day last week, we added new sites to the Freecycling and Free Stuff areas of the Yahoo! Directory. And let us tell you, after experiencing just a little of what our Bay Area community has to give, we're hooked on freesailing! "What on Earth (day) is 'freesailing?,'" you ask? Well, it's like garage sailing, only you don't have to be mortified as your mother demands that you to try on those "perfectly good" jeans she found in some stranger's driveway. And, you can do it from the comfort of your own living room! In one day, we watched some lucky freecyclers get a pair of leather Crate and Barrel throw pillows (which sounded suspiciously similar to an item spotted on Ebay later that day), a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies, a set of 2" wood blinds, and a hardly-used Rival food processor. And that's not all! Some Flickrers have a freecycle treasures group with lots of pictures and stories of other free seekers who were blessed with some perfectly-priced treasures. So, do you want some manna from heaven, too? The best way to make sure no one else gets your free goodies is to keep your eye on a couple of different internet freesailing resources. First, the green folks at green.yahoo.com can help you find a local freecycling group that'll send you email notifications whenever someone has an unexpected gift. Also, with literally hundreds of new freebie posts every day, Craigslist's Free Stuff Classifieds can turn a weekend of consumption into one of freesailing. For more info, direct yourself here. Go ahead, it's free! Suggested Sites... The Freecycle Network - find freecycle groups near you through the "worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources, and eases the burden on our landfills." Freecycle Treasures - Flickr.com - view and post photos of freecycled treasures rescued from the landfill. This is Garbage - Flickr.com - a place to find and post photos of garbage that is interesting, gross, or in desperate need of freecycling. FreeSharing.org - a large directory of local freecycling groups and a freecycling news forum. BookCrossing.com - give and receive books at one of BookCrossing's "wild-release locations" where people leave books so that they can be found again by other book lovers.

Directory categories: Freecycling, Free Stuff, Earth Day, Barter and Swap, Waste Management

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