Reverse Garbage

An oldie but a goodie (and a personal fave) - I have a soft spot in my heart for Reverse Garbage.

I would visit often whilst a Uni student finding bits to sew on my pants, or materials to use for model making and just to browse, sift and search through all things used and once treasured. Reverse Garbage is a non for profit organisation that sells, as they say: "high quality industrial discards".

This afternoon we were doing some toy rearrangement and sorting and I decided to make this garage (pictured) an outside toy... when I realised I've not posted before on Reverse Garbage! What an oversight... as it's one of my fave places!

We are due for another visit soon. Last time we went, we bought this garage for $5, a roll of white paper and some exfoliating mittens (which we are going to make into hand puppets soon). There is an ever changing array of wonderful things to be bought - from old magazines, paint, wooden stensils, soft fluffy things, all types of materials you can use as craft - and more and more and more... so go, go and GO!

Freecycle: I've got this, you need that.

I first came across Freecycle when we lived in London UK. Freecyle is community of folks that give away goods for free that they no longer need. It was great as a new arrival to London, we got our vacuum cleaner, coffee table and a food processor from Freecycle; and when we left London town we put them back out to the Freecycle community, along with other stuff of ours.

Back in Sydney and now with child, we've joined Freecycle again and have been given all manner of useful things - change table, train table and safety gate. Last weekend we answered a post for a play dough table and were also given these great bits (pictured) by the same folks.

If you are not super fussy about getting the latest and the greatest; and are happy to give things a really good clean when you get them - it's a great way of 'borrowing' bits that you need, and then when you are done you can put them back out into the Freecycle community.

Join your local Freecyle community!