The Buy Nothing ethos has been surging by providing goods and personal connection during a time when both have been in short supply. Lately, there’s the added impetus of a holiday shopping season marred by fears of product shortages and high prices.
Buy Nothing Project group members may be among the few who aren't worried about supply chain problems leading to issues with gifts this holiday season.
we gift each other. it s it is a buy nothing group. reporter: a buy nothing christmas. a spin-off of the buy nothing project that started with a handful of neighbors on bane bridge island a year and a half ago that now boasts 89,000 members in nine nations still about being neighborly. give where you live we are saying. reporter: a swap, unwrapped, wrapping paper. exactly. reporter: give what you don t want to someone who wants it. facebook-centric. people join based on neighborhood they live in. requests are posted solely in your neighbor group. pick it up or drop it off. i must have driven to 20 houses picking up all kind of items. it s good stuff. reporter: no pressure. no money. what the christmas spirit should be. buy nothing christmas means buy nothing. have christmas. enjoy your family. don t stress about your budget. reporter: that s what thousand of buy nothingers have found out.