Anonymous
Post 07/18/2025 13:33     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:I’m in Alexandria. One morning someone posted a gift of a huge bag of carrots that they had seen fall out of a food delivery truck onto the side of the road (Braddock, truck was assumed to have delivered to Lena’s). So it was some huge restaurant delivery size. This person picked up the bag off of Braddock, took it home and posted it on BN.

It was so bizarre.


The Alexandria West/Lincolnia group is wild! A few members just keep passing the items back and forth to each other like it's their job.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 20:40     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:Lol when i lived in glover park i would walk around all the nice row houses and marvel at the absolute garbage people would put out with a “free to good home” sign. Ii’m talking a rusty tea kettle with half a plastic handle melted off. A stained and ripped npr tote bag. A half chewed (dog?) world directory of orthodonists from 1988. A weathered stroller that could only be described as a “vintage rust bucket”. And on and on. I could not believe how much people in million dolla rowhouses thought their junk was worth that they kept curbing it for the worthy poors.


That orthodontist directory is a treasure! What if the Internet isn't available?
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 20:37     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
I’m in Alexandria. One morning someone posted a gift of a huge bag of carrots that they had seen fall out of a food delivery truck onto the side of the road (Braddock, truck was assumed to have delivered to Lena’s). So it was some huge restaurant delivery size. This person picked up the bag off of Braddock, took it home and posted it on BN.

It was so bizarre.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 20:17     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:Lol when i lived in glover park i would walk around all the nice row houses and marvel at the absolute garbage people would put out with a “free to good home” sign. Ii’m talking a rusty tea kettle with half a plastic handle melted off. A stained and ripped npr tote bag. A half chewed (dog?) world directory of orthodonists from 1988. A weathered stroller that could only be described as a “vintage rust bucket”. And on and on. I could not believe how much people in million dolla rowhouses thought their junk was worth that they kept curbing it for the worthy poors.


This still happens on Capitol Hill and some people even try to sell their old, worn out junk.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 18:11     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Lol when i lived in glover park i would walk around all the nice row houses and marvel at the absolute garbage people would put out with a “free to good home” sign. Ii’m talking a rusty tea kettle with half a plastic handle melted off. A stained and ripped npr tote bag. A half chewed (dog?) world directory of orthodonists from 1988. A weathered stroller that could only be described as a “vintage rust bucket”. And on and on. I could not believe how much people in million dolla rowhouses thought their junk was worth that they kept curbing it for the worthy poors.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 18:00     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
This makes me really appreciate my group. It’s sane. People will give away whole pizzas after parties, but never a single slice.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 16:55     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Bag of chips with only 1/4 of the bag left. WTF?
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 16:19     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
So much trash on those groups.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 16:14     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
I tried to give away a Stanley tumbler at the height of their popularity (received it as a gift and knew I would never use it because it was big and cumbersome) and it was half people clamoring for it and half people accusing me of "too good to be true" scamming.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 15:55     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
I once saw sealed condoms offered. The lady who posted them also posted a picture of her pregnant belly and said something like "the condoms are going to expire before we need them again so I don't want them to go to waste" and the comments in the post were hilarious!

"Hmm, seems like they might be defective to me."
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2025 15:49     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:A woman’s “toy”


Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 22:53     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:A woman’s “toy”


We have a lady in our neighborhood who does photo shoots for some sex toys catalog or something. Apparently she gets to keep the items she is sent to photograph, so about twice a month she posts a few on Buy Nothing.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 22:11     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:A woman’s “toy”


There was one listed today!!!
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 22:09     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
Anonymous wrote:Leftover medicine!


Isn’t that illegal? Unless it’s over the counter I guess
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 22:08     Subject: What's the craziest thing you've seen offered for free in your Buy Nothing group?
I’ve given away non-expired, sealed food items on Nextdoor and always get a ton of takers. Things like an unopened box of zbars bc my husband bought the wrong kind or a box of sealed microwaveable rice packets from Costco that my kids didn’t like. Stuff like that. I don’t think that’s weird. I give clothes to goodwill but have given way lots of random items out on Nextdoor. That’s how I get rid of most excess stuff in my house. Throw it up onto Nextdoor. We don’t have a buy nothing group here.