We have many resources at our fingertips just beneath the recesses of our keyboards, thanks to the digital age. Some of these resources can help us put art on our walls, furniture on our patio and even dinner on the table. Some of them will even help us to save money.
One local site that I have recently discovered – while looking for a new car – is www.perth.gumtree.com.au. This is a local site which is best described as a cross between ebay and the quokka online. You can list as seller or browse as a buyer. As well as cars, there are categories as diverse as backyard furniture and even Real Estate. The site is primarily focused on local preloved property.
Another idea is to keep up to date on the times and dates of auctions at www.auctions.com.au where police seized, forfeited and unclaimed property are sold with little regard to the original costs. Or try looking at www.etsy.com for art from as little as fifteen dollars US. This is a cute site that stocks crafts, vases, beds, lighting and many other things that are made by emerging arts and cratfers.
Instead of joining the cycle of buying new stuff for your house every few years then letting it end up in landfill, another alternative is to become a member of a recycling organization like a Freecycling group. www.freecycle.org is an innovative site that relies on Yahoo Groups to connect people wishing to connect to a recycling network, or as they say on their site, ‘ a place to give or receive what you have and don’t need or what you need and don’t have — a free cycle of giving which keeps stuff out of landfills.’
Or, for just a giggle, take a look at craftfail.com.
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