Yerdle is a new website and mobile platform that allows easy sharing and giving of common items. The idea is very simple: We want or need stuff, the people we know have the stuff we want or need, often unused..
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Are you someone who loves to travel? Do you love to meet new people? Does a comfy couch sound like a good place to crash? Then Couchsurfing.org is for you. The URL says it all: It allows people to offer.
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We’re loathe to call things the “Airbnb of…” dog-biscuits, chessboards, whatever. We are sure peer-to-peer marketplaces have a prelapsarian past, but few enterprises have made purchasing services from your friends and neighbors as easy as Airbnb. So unfortunately, we have.
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Each week we are profiling real people who are editing their lives for more freedom and happiness. This week we hear from Lucy, a grad student and an active proponent of a new, sharing-based economy and showing how we can all do.
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Ever wish you could wish for something and it magically appeared? The website OhSoWe attempts to make that wish its command. Site users can post their needs and/or “Shareables”–i.e. what you want or what you got–and both categories show up.
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In his youth, my father’s primary mode of cross-country transport was hitchhiking. A thumb and a clean shave were the currency for a ticket anywhere. A few well-publicized stories about rides gone wrong, the introduction of cheaper, more reliable cars.
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We talk a lot about living a life focused less on stuff and space and more on relationships and other things that truly make us happy. The epoch in most of our lives that best embodies that way of life.
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Part of the allure of shopping and getting new stuff is novelty. Humans like new things–it’s probably a neurochemical. The problem is that new stuff has consequences, some of which we elucidated yesterday. A site called Swap.com gives a way.
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According to the US Census Bureau, the average American moves 11.7 times in his or her lifetime. As the average life expectancy of that same citizen is 78.2 years, most Americans will move every 6.68 years. It is perhaps this peripatetic lifestyle.
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We’re big fans of Zipcar and similar services. They allow people who don’t need a car full time to have on-demand access to cars when they need them, for as much or as little time as necessary. A site called.
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