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This past week we gave away one of those beach shade tents (seen below in our driveway). It was nothing flash, but handy for avoiding sunburn at the beach.

We put it online for free and that night we had 5 replies within a couple of hours and arranged to give it away the next evening.


It was great to have a double win. 1. It was so easy to avoid something ending up in landfill (or deteriorating in the back of the garage) and 2. It was wonderful to help out another person (or whole family) at the same time. As the taker said to me in a message afterwards, “we have been wanting one for the kids ... but never really had the spare funds for it.”

PS. I left the post online until the tent had been collected. In less than 24 hours, it was viewed over 500 times and I received 21 enquiries. There's certainly a lot of people we can help out, while also de-cluttering our own home.

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