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Box or location used to allow for people to rid themselves of excess items.
A free box in
Berlin ,
Germany , 2005, serving as a distribution center for free donated materials
Clothing bins in the Free Box in
Crestone, Colorado
A free box is a box or location used to allow for people to rid themselves of excess items without the inconvenience of a
garage sale . When someone has items they wish to be rid of, but which might be useful to another person, they are set out and given to whoever wants them. If, after a period, no one has claimed the items, the contents of the box may be donated to a charity like
Goodwill or
The Salvation Army .
Free boxing is implemented at the
University of Saskatchewan ,
[1] in
Victoria, British Columbia ,
[2] in
Isla Vista, California ,
[3] and in
Crestone
[4] and
Telluride ,
Colorado .
[5]
[6]
[7]
An online version of a similar concept is
The Freecycle Network .
The
University of Guelph , in
Guelph, Ontario , runs a free table for several weeks of the school year.
New College of Florida is home to a student-run free table (open throughout the school year).
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See also
References
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U of S annual report for 2001-2002 school year describing the creation of the Free box by then VP of Student Issues, Jennifer Barber [
permanent dead link ]
^
Livejournal entry on free box etiquette in the Vancouver area
^
An appreciation of the Isla Vista Free Box
Archived 2012-03-28 at the
Wayback Machine , Santa Barbara Independent
^
"Editor’s Notes
Archived 2010-12-24 at the
Wayback Machine August '09 Crestone Eagle , accessed September 19, 2010
^ Waring, Lisa (June 9, 2010).
"The Free Box Provides" .
The Huffington Post .
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"Get to know Telluride's Free Box" article in
The Denver Post 10/18/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT, accessed September 19, 2010
^
"Telluride Thinks Out of the Box"
Archived 2011-06-17 at the
Wayback Machine article by Antonya Nelson in
Smithsonian Magazine , August 2009, accessed September 19, 2010
^
"Explore New College of Florida" . 8 June 2023.
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