Forget pulling out your credit card for holiday gifts for others (or yourself). That’s like, soooo pre-economic crisis!
Instead, pull out dem ugly gifts other people have given you over the years and swap ‘em for something you (or someone you know) will actually like.
Re-gifting? Kinda… but without the worry that you’ll accidentally give your cousin the, er, “beautiful” plaid scalloped-edged apron that your aunt gave you three Decembers ago.
So, enter Freecycle. Membership costs nothin’. And as you might have guessed from the name (or should have), it is “…a place to give or receive what you have and don’t need or what you need and don’t have.”
Say that 10 times fast.
Then go visit Freecycle and find that big, comfy easy chair you’ve always wanted and offer someone else that treadmill that’s been taunting you from across the room since 2002. And if you find and give the neighbor that snowblower you thought he always wanted (but didn’t), he can always put it back up for grabs while searching Freecycle for the panini maker that he secretly hoped you were sliding under his tree.
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