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When Power And Water Failed, Buy Nothing Groups Helped Fill The Gaps

When Power And Water Failed, Buy Nothing Groups Helped Fill The Gaps
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When Power And Water Failed, Buy Nothing Groups Helped Fill The Gaps | KUT Radio, Austin s NPR Station

/ Buy Nothing group members donated goods and also time to neighbors in need during last week s winter storm. In the midst of last week’s storm, some Texans got to work donating time and goods to neighbors in need. And they did it through a network of small, local groups participating in the Buy Nothing Project. Buy Nothing connects people in cities across Texas, and worldwide, through Facebook groups where neighbors can offer up or ask for help or items they need. Jennifer Lansdowne started one of the Austin groups, and says the idea behind the project is that everyone has something they aren’t using that could benefit someone else.

Why Buy Nothing groups might just change your life (and your community)

Austin 360 In the past six weeks, I’ve given away 36 items in my Buy Nothing group, and it all started with a rug.  I’d just bought a new rug for my living room that I’d been coveting for about a year. My old rug wasn’t in terrible shape, and I hated the idea of throwing it away. I could have held onto it for some future situation where I’d need an extra living room rug  or to swap out with the new one  but the truth is, I already had two even older rugs rolled up in the corner of my garage. Those rugs hadn’t been used in the six years that I’ve lived in my house, but there they were, awaiting some unknown future.

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