Don’t Shop, Swap!

posted in: Eco-Lifestyle, Going Green, Reduce Reuse Recycle on 02/10/2010 by Rachel White | RSS

Remember the old-fashioned system known are bartering?  I know, it’s kind of fallen off our radar screens.  But now there’s a great online resource to help you barter–or swap–books, CDs, DVDs, and video games you don’t want for those that you do.

It’s called Swaptree.com and the possibilities it opens up to reduce and reuse are so great, it almost make me giddy.  Remember that series of books your child just had to have in first grade but has now outgrown?  List them on swap tree and you could find yourself with the must-have series for third graders.  Or how about those videos that your children watched endlessly as toddlers?  Trade them for the Wii games they have been nagging you for.  Or how about all those thrillers you buy at the airport?  Trade them for ones you haven’t read.

So don’t shop, swap!

1 Comment

• Thanks for the tip, Rachel. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I have a lot of stuff to sort between the two!

  Keep it up.

  rebhayim

  Comment by rebhayim — February 11, 2010 @ 8:33 am

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