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Welcome to FreeMesa! The Place to Freecycle Your Stuff!
FreeMesa.org is a website dedicated to giving away free stuff! Really! It is a place to exchange free stuff with people in your local community all for free. If you need a new couch, chair, bike, or computer, chances are there is someone in your area trying to give this stuff away for free. FreeMesa makes it easy to bring people together so they can save money, time, and help the environment all by giving stuff away. Likewise, if you have stuff that needs a new home, FreeMesa has you covered!
What is this 'Free Stuff'?
You'd be surprised! More often than not, the free stuff being given away is quality and very useful. Good quality high end items tend to last longer which makes them much more likely to need a new home. The variety of free stuff being offered is also amazing as well. Hot tubs, used cars, furniture, computers, clothes, kitchen gadgets, kitchen sinks, building supplies - you name it - it's been given away on FreeMesa.
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| Random stuff being given away for free on FreeMesa. |
How to Freecycle:
To freecycle something is to give away for free unwanted stuff to someone who is in need. From couches, clothes, and toys to kitchen sinks (literally) many surprising things are avoiding the landfill and finding renewed use through being freecycled on FreeMesa. Thousands of people are connecting to give away something to other people with a need. Here are three steps you can take to join the freecycling movement.
- Create an account on FreeMesa, and enter your correct postal code. Using this, FreeMesa will connect you to
other people living near you geographically so it will be more convenient to freecycle stuff and consume less energy making the exchange.
Each day FreeMesa will send out an email with all of the new free stuff that is available in your local area.
- There are two kinds of posts:
- Offers: When you post something you have to give away.
- Requests: When you are looking for a particular item
- When looking for something new, check to see if anyone in your area is trying to give the item you need away for free before buying it. Likewise, when cleaning your house, try posting an offer for the stuff you no longer need to see if anyone could use it before throwing it out.
- Reciprocity! One of the best ways to get more free stuff offered in your neighborhood is to give stuff away yourself. People see these posts and are more eager to support their local communities when they see their community is eager to support them. When a member gets an email with an offer in it, they are 3 times more likely to post an offer of their own vs an email with a request.
You're ready to Freecycle! Its fun, easy, and a great way to help save the Earth!
Recycling 2.0
To give away free stuff on FreeMesa is better than to recycle it. It reuses, or rather, freecycles your old stuff. The quality of the stuff produced today is so good that the useful life often far exceeds the need. To recycle a perfectly good object by melting it down and reforming it into exactly the same thing for someone else makes no sense.
So what are we to do? When you have a couch that is perfectly good but has to go, it is a shame to just throw it out. When you give this stuff away for free on FreeMesa, you several great things:
- You help a new friend, give a great gift, save them money, and improve their quality of life.
- You save yourself the time and cost of having it hauled away.
- You have reduced pollution in the environment twice - no old couch rotting in a landfill and no pollution in making a new one.
The Rules of Free Stuff & Freecyling
Like any organization, FreeMesa does have its rules. In a nutshell, they are as follows:
- The item must be Free.
- The item must be Legal.
- The item must be family friendly.
A complete list of rules can be found here
And since we're all here to help each other and the environment, we encourage our members to be polite and to employ courtesy with other members when they are arranging the pickup and exchange of free stuff.
Help Charities Get Free Stuff
Helping charities is a great thing to do, and most people want to help. The problem is we often don't have free cash to donate or time to volunteer. However, now there is a new way to help. Charities are often in need of the same things - an animal shelter always needs new towels, for example. FreeMesa has a charity search where you can find local charities near your home and see the list of things they currently need.
If they happen to need that thing sitting in your closet for the last 3 years, great! You get to help the local charities working to build your local community with the free stuff you no longer need and were probably going to throw out anyway. Your free stuff is recycled into a new home helping the people in need most, and all at no cost to you or the environment. This is the ultimate Win-Win.
Groups On FreeMesa
FreeMesa makes it very easy to freecycle your stuff. However, some groups have special needs or interests. If you would like to create a private group for your organization or charity to exchange items among themselves, FreeMesa has you covered! We have a customizable groups section set up to provide your organization with a private board to give away your free stuff (or not-so-free depending on the needs of your group - it is your organization's private board after all). Also, to help charities cover the cost of running their own group we offer revenue sharing where we give charities a percentage of the ad revenue their members generate.