New project: as if I need another one of those
May 24th, 2010Ever found yourself standing over your trash can holding something you’re about to toss and think to yourself, “surely SOMEONE can make something out of this”?
Put it here ——————> Trash it Forward. New blog, brainchild of the Etsy forums. A little more reliable than craigslist or freecycle because things are offered up with crafters in mind, a little more fun than the landfill, and a good way to get rid of things if you’re from a small place with no established upcycling programs. It also keeps us from angering people who sell bottle caps and Altoids tins and stuff like that on Etsy by listing our trash for pennies because we really just want to give it all away.
We make trash, you pay postage for us to mail it to you, you make stuff out of it. Good, right?
May 24th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
GREAT idea!!!!!
May 24th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
This reminds me of a friend’s uncle or someone who’s been saving the little balls from bottles of roll-on deodorants for years, because they’re perfect spheres. like he actually measured them with a thing that measures spheres to be certain (a micrometer, tim tells me), and he’s convinced they could be useful somehow. i think he has a couple hundred. but in this case someone else will probably just be stuck throwing them out when he dies. sigh.
May 25th, 2010 at 9:44 am
this is awesome! I hate throwing stuff away, and I am NOT crafty enough to do something with it myself! y’all are GENIUSES!!! xoxo
May 25th, 2010 at 10:16 am
haha, Mary, I love your stories like that.
May 25th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Oh, it’s lovely! THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting together the site! I hope to get my endless supply of bale twine posted today – tomorrow for sure! If I can figure out how to post and put on a picture — anyone can do it! I’ll be the tester! Thanks again!