'I couldn’t have predicted how important these groups would become in my own life.'
It’s a new kind of inheritance, one that moves not through a single family, but through a community.Several years ago, a friend living in San Francisco mentioned, “I have to pick up a Pack-and-Play I got from my Buy Nothing Group.” Back then, Buy Nothing Groups had not yet made it to my corner of the Midwest, so I had to research. I couldn’t have predicted how important these groups would become in my own life.
I’ve received numerous things through my Buy Nothing Group, too. There’s the old electronic jump rope that kept us sane through the long winters and the matching ceramic fox mugs my daughter likes to use for hot chocolate. A member dropped off a playhouse that became one of my daughter’s favorite pretend spots. And one evening, I picked up cookies from a professional baker in the neighborhood, who made too many batches of tulip-shaped snickerdoodles for an event.
The most touching posts I found were ones of loss. Occasionally, someone posted with a gift of unused dog food, or a heated light bulb for a chameleon, mourning the pets that suddenly passed away, while hoping to also make another member’s life easier. These posts would be flooded with comments full of sympathy. Sometimes, a new mother would post an ISO for a sleepsuit, and other parents chimed in with their tricks for newborn sleep.
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