Submitted by HairyPossibility676 t3_yxraij in boston
Saw a post on Buy Nothing on another sub. Wanted to highlight it on here in case other people in the city are looking to get rid of/are in need of anything. The iOS app seems pretty easy to use so far. I believe there is also a play store app available too.
Dude when I was a mover, I furnished my apartment with really nice castoffs from Newton/Belmont/Wellesley/Weston/Lexington/etc. A coworker even copped a 2 year old side by side Subzero fridge. Rich folk are not shy about shedding belongings when they move.
I went to Brandeis. Oh boy, when I visited my friend who grew up in Weston...
I didn't know someone so close to Boston could own so much land. Acres.
They renovated the basement with 16 fucking bunk beds for when family came over and there was a fucking wall climb wall! Shit was like only 10-12 feet, Clearly for children under teenage years.
We literally fucking made Simba jokes. "Everything the sun touches, it is yours."
I have only ever lived in apartments, and have been homeless 3 times. The shock was fucking unreal. Oh, he had a bedroom AND a playroom, fully equipped with Oculus VR (I want to say around 2018?), Foosball table, you name it. His fucking okay room was worth more than my life.
Anyways I just wanted to say I saw a ton of genuine marble furniture around those parts. The worst part is? Even if you were smart enough to resell it, shit is so fucking heavy a regular person couldn't just load it onto their car.
Edit: Forgot to add that the play room was in A SEPARATE WING OF THE HOUSE. Mother fucker had such a big house, they had to section shit off. FAFSA FUCKED me. I probably paid more for college than he did lol.
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It's amazing Arlington is now considered a rich people town. As recently as the 90s it was a squarely middle class, largely Catholic suburb. You had to go to Wellesley or Weston or parts of Belmont and Lexington to find the truly rich. Arlington was always fine but never considered one of the most desirable towns.
It's because the concept of Rich has changed.
You own a house in Arlington? You're rich.
Got 10 acres and a cranberry bog in Weston? You're rich.
You own a tiny little apartment on the 14th floor of a building in downtown? You're rich.
The concept of renting has literally caused generations of people to not be able to understand a wage gap nor actually having to provide for themselves, because again, daddy mommy money.
The shit I saw at Brandeis was absolutely ridiculous. Not even going to talk about the excessive abuse of Adderall and the cover ups of rape.
Gotta keep your image somehow!
Is this a Facebook page?
Yes there are FB groups for each locale of greater Boston area. It's moderated.
I've been in the Medford one for years. It's very cozy, has a great community feeling!
These are very big on Facebook! Search your town or city + Buy Nothing or Everything Free. 😁
then I'd need a facebook account
https://buynothingproject.org/
There is also an independent network that has its own app.
Funny story. The buy nothing Jamaica plain page underwent a revolt a few years back. I guess the parent organization tried to split the page to keep the membership at a certain level. Accusation for classism got thrown around and we ended up with an “Everything Free JP” page.
I think this post is about an app and your comment is about a facebook page.
Buy nothing started as a Facebook page. And it was their corporate structure caused the rift. Not against the concept but also not surprised they formalized it more.
Oh you're saying the same group of people that started all the local buy nothing fb pages also make the app? I didn't realize that.
Now you have me curious. They have a .org domain but they are an incorporated with a trademark on Buy Nothing. What could their business model possibly be? I see they except donations but their apps look too polished to be funded by only that.
Weird.
Yep. When JP’s original page hit some designated member count some admin from another state stepped in and said the group had be be split instead of just being all of JP. There was a lot of argument about classism given how segregated JPB is and they ended up making a rival group.
Same with Allston/Brighton page
I'm in the Medford group, and see the Somerville group does that. I don't get the point...isn't a bigger group just better? More activity, more critical mass, etc.
Idk the reasoning behind it. It was really weird because the page admin was someone who lived on the west coast and they wouldn’t budge even when people tried to find a solution. They basically just made the page private and kicked a bunch of people.
Seems like a lot of work compared to old-fashioned shoplifting.
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I live in the suburbs and our towns fb group is great, I got all of my kids winter stuff and Christmas gifts this year from there.
Buy Nothing Day is also coming up on November 24th.
My favorite holiday! I really wanted to try putting together a party or something for it, with a junk-in-the-trunk style swapmeet.
Only problem is, so many people will be on vacation to family for Thanksgiving. And it's a bit cold to do it comfortably outside. Well, mayb=e I'll figure out something for next year.
Buy Nothing is great. We get rid of so much packaging that we'd otherwise throw out, and we pick up so much stuff for our dog.
My app was pretty empty am i missing something
A densely populated neighborhood?
I put radius up to boston gotta try the fb group
For those having trouble with the app, look to see if your neighborhood or town has a free or buy nothing Facebook group.
The downside is that as these have become more popular, it's become harder and harder to claim anything remotely decent. My neighborhood group is flooded with comments by the same 10 SAHMs within five minutes of a new posting. Half the time people are just addicted to free, and you see them give away the stuff them claimed a month ago again because they didn't actually need it. And so many people flake out on picking up that now people have bizarre demands when giving away.
Trash day honestly seems like a better bet if your commute or daily dog walk takes you through a nice neighborhood.
Interesting concept! Horrible app.
UltravioletClearance t1_iwqazrh wrote
The arlington buy nothing page is a trip. It's amazing what rich people will throw away.