I've written about Freecycle in at least one column in the past, and I've both given away and received items. It's a great way to give to the community and keep items out of the landfill.

Check out the Freecycle home page at:

http://www.freecycle.org/

... and our local group at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleMidwestOntario/

Update 2007/07/23: The Freecycle Midwestern Ontario group has been renamed to "Full Circles Kitchener Waterloo". The new URL is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FullCirclesKitchenerWaterloo

For more details about the name change and why it happened, members of the group that missed it should read the message "Admin - First Response to New Name", and any of the many responses after that.