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Furnishing Home for Free

November 29th, 2006

Last night, our local channel 2 news ran a story about the free-item section of Craigslist.

The report focused on Michelle, a local woman who needed to furnish her new home, but had little money to do so. Within a 2-week period, Michelle (an already avid user of Craigslist) found many major items for her home for free, saving her hundreds of dollars if she had purchased the items used, and thousands of dollars had she purchased them new.

You can read and watch the full story here:

 http://www.katu.com/news/4713611.html

Craigslist covers many cities around the country, see if your city is included here: http://portland.craigslist.org/about/cities.html

The free section for Portland can be found here: http://portland.craigslist.org/zip/

Another similar resource is Freecycle: http://www.freecycle.org/

I have both of these sites bookmarked because I am addicted to getting things free. I’ve been able to get a range of free items in the past, from fabric to CDs to bookshelves. Time is typically the biggest barrier to getting things from Craigslist and Freecycle: items can be snatched up very quickly.

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