I’ve been avoiding my local Freecycle list lately for two main reasons. First, the community has grown tremendously over the past year and as a consequence there is a lot of correspondence (and I just can’t possibly keep up with all of it). Secondly, I have found that since joining I have acquired more things than I’ve managed to give away. To make matters worse, most of what I’ve acquired doesn’t really fit into my main hobbies or lifestyle, so I don’t even have time to use it. Personally, I think that there’s something about ‘free’ that draws people in; why else would you (well I) do a flexed armed hang for a Marines larnyard? I can honestly say that I would not have spent any money to acquire one, and I really don’t have much use for it (though it might make a nice gift for one of the little kids in my family). Perhaps once school’s over I can take some time and find someone who can actually use some of the stuff that I’ve acquired. There are two benefits to that scenario: (1) it won’t end up in a landfill and (2) I can stop tripping over it.

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