When Did Your Buy-Nothing Group Jump the Shark?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is one lady in ours that’s hustles to grab baby formula. Any brand, unopened or opened, doesn’t matter.

She probably selling it somewhere.

[Anonymous]

The whole concept of Buy Nothing groups is white nonsense: https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of Buy Nothing groups is white nonsense: https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

100% this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister was kicked out of her Buy Nothing for giving a couple jars of apple butter to the person who gave her the apples. Mine is not that nutty.

What?!?!?

Exchanging is against the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of Buy Nothing groups is white nonsense: https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

I live outside of the DMV, and most of our members are not white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen people post sofas from a dog friendly home that are stained and thread bare. They claim it still has plenty of life and cover it with a throw blanket. Disgusting! Take it to the dump!

I just posted a sofa my cats have destroyed the arms of. I didn’t claim it had life in it though I just let the photo speak for itself. Someone actually said she was interested much to my shock — I was just posting it on the off-chance I could avoid the bulk trash fee. Nothing wrong with posting, even if you consider takers unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen people post sofas from a dog friendly home that are stained and thread bare. They claim it still has plenty of life and cover it with a throw blanket. Disgusting! Take it to the dump!

I just posted a sofa my cats have destroyed the arms of. I didn’t claim it had life in it though I just let the photo speak for itself. Someone actually said she was interested much to my shock — I was just posting it on the off-chance I could avoid the bulk trash fee. Nothing wrong with posting, even if you consider takers unlikely.

You are enabling hoarding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen people post sofas from a dog friendly home that are stained and thread bare. They claim it still has plenty of life and cover it with a throw blanket. Disgusting! Take it to the dump!

I just posted a sofa my cats have destroyed the arms of. I didn’t claim it had life in it though I just let the photo speak for itself. Someone actually said she was interested much to my shock — I was just posting it on the off-chance I could avoid the bulk trash fee. Nothing wrong with posting, even if you consider takers unlikely.

You are enabling hoarding

It’s disgusting. Have some common decency. Don’t give trash. Have some dignity.

[Anonymous]

The best one on my BN group was the used deodorant. "Only used once on clean pits!"

There were multiple takers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen people post sofas from a dog friendly home that are stained and thread bare. They claim it still has plenty of life and cover it with a throw blanket. Disgusting! Take it to the dump!

I just posted a sofa my cats have destroyed the arms of. I didn’t claim it had life in it though I just let the photo speak for itself. Someone actually said she was interested much to my shock — I was just posting it on the off-chance I could avoid the bulk trash fee. Nothing wrong with posting, even if you consider takers unlikely.

You are enabling hoarding

It’s disgusting. Have some common decency. Don’t give trash. Have some dignity.

It’s disgusting to landfill something that still has use. If you’re honest about the condition and someone will willingly pick it up, then you’re not compromising anyone’s dignity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen people post sofas from a dog friendly home that are stained and thread bare. They claim it still has plenty of life and cover it with a throw blanket. Disgusting! Take it to the dump!

I just posted a sofa my cats have destroyed the arms of. I didn’t claim it had life in it though I just let the photo speak for itself. Someone actually said she was interested much to my shock — I was just posting it on the off-chance I could avoid the bulk trash fee. Nothing wrong with posting, even if you consider takers unlikely.

You are enabling hoarding

It’s disgusting. Have some common decency. Don’t give trash. Have some dignity.

It’s disgusting to landfill something that still has use. If you’re honest about the condition and someone will willingly pick it up, then you’re not compromising anyone’s dignity.

I could never in good conscience offer up trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of Buy Nothing groups is white nonsense: https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

Huh? My BN group is diverse. And how is it "nonsense" to help each other save money and reduce waste?

[Anonymous]

It’s not white nonsense. Yes I read the article.
I don’t love all the rules not that’s why some of the groups changed names. I just gave away a swim team bag and picked up a plastic kids pool for the dog.
It’s an awesome concept.

[Anonymous]

BN is great for those things where you’re like “well someone might have a use for this so it’s a shame to throw it away…” I gave away a bunch of half-full packages of various postpartum supplies, perfume samples I didn’t like, a panel of fencing that was the wrong size…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of Buy Nothing groups is white nonsense: https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

I live outside of the DMV, and most of our members are not white.

That's nice, and doesn't change the previous point at all.