Eden Prairie’s Buy Nothing group drew hundreds to its Junk in the Trunk event, where neighbors gave away toys, furniture and ...

Buy Nothing reduces waste by keeping items out of landfills. It also builds community. Here are several Angelenos who've passed along treasured items to their neighbors freely using the groups.

It’s a dark winter evening, and I’m about to drive 10 minutes to pick up 8 over-ripe bananas from a neighbor. As I grab my coat, my husband wonders aloud whether I have lost my marbles. “You’re ...

Korissa Matta had two months to move out of her old apartment in the East Village in spring 2022. She wanted to use her local Buy Nothing group to give away her old stuff. But over the course of the ...

On any given day, West Iowa City’s Buy Nothing Facebook Group is buzzing with notifications of items ready to be gifted to a new home for free. A slightly worn Columbia windbreaker. A bounce house. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm decluttering my house using a local 'Buy Nothing' group. It's still hard to resist taking other people's free stuff. I've been ...

Members of the University City Buy Nothing group at their "Crafternoon" gathering. They say everything comes with a price, but that’s not true for members of a “Buy Nothing” group. The Facebook groups ...

Naomi Serviss scored a bookshelf and a guitar stand. Michelle Wolf got three spin bikes ‒ two for a teacher friend's classroom and one for herself. Joni Holderman got a gently used rug that retails ...

After my divorce, I moved into a new place, having lived in a fully furnished villa for a year. I didn't own much and wanted to make this place feel like it wasn't temporary. I shared my "divorce and ...

Early this year, the Buy Nothing Evanston Facebook group had fewer than 10,000 members. Now it has over 12,000. Couple Ellis and Erin Booker started the Facebook group in 2021. “Ultimately, the goal ...

After Anna Hover got sick, she asked for help online. The kindness of her neighbors helped put her life back together. NINA MOINI: Time now for a new episode of our series called Thank You, Stranger.