I loved my local Buy Nothing group from the moment I discovered it, sometime early in 2020, when the world was cloistered and quarantined. There was something compelling about the slivers of other people’s lives it offered, the photos that captured items but also beige carpet or a cat in the background. And its mission […]
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I loved my local Buy Nothing group from the moment I discovered it, sometime early in 2020, when the world was cloistered and quarantined. There was something compelling about the slivers of other people’s lives it offered, the photos that captured items but also beige carpet or a cat in the background. And its mission is an aspirational one. Yes, the thousands of Buy Nothing groups that have proliferated on Facebook are a way for people living in close proximity to circulate and recycle things, but, if you ask the founders, “the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors.”
