Hello and welcome to How To Be Fine. I'm Kristen Meinser.

And I'm Jelena Greenberg. And today we're here with a feedback episode.

That's right. Every third week we share some of the stories you are listeners have shared

with us about the topics we've most recently covered on the show.

Because a lot of you write in and a lot of you have really great things to say.

Those great things include some fantastic additional advice for our advice seekers.

But Jelena, shall we start off with talking about buy nothing?

And let's start with hearing from people who love their local buy nothing groups.

Here's a letter from Misty. Misty says, I love my buy nothing group. I've been a member

since 2013. I love being able to purge my children's clothing or household items by

putting them on my porch for someone to pick up and lovingly use. Just today I saw an

ottoman offered that I gifted after obtaining it from this same group. I re-appholstered it,

used it per years, then re-gifted it after we changed our style. It's still going strong

and it's been through at least three owners. I feel so much better about gifting items rather

than taking them to a thrift store. It feels less wasteful.

Sarah agrees. She also loves her buy nothing group. She says, I'm in a Facebook buy nothing

group that encompasses the city's east of Phoenix. It's pretty big. I joined so I could

pass on things that people might find useful rather than try to sell them. There's a time

in my life that I would have been the one looking for food and basic house items. I like

being able to help other people out.

That makes a lot of sense. There's something to it. Misty mentioned, it feels so much

more reassuring when you know it's going to an actual person as opposed to dropping

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