Kristina Ellis

So we are like, let's go.

Let's cut down as much as possible so we can just tackle it.

So I'm all on board with Frugal February and I've been looking for different frugal things to share.

I've been asking people on Instagram, you know,

What are you focused on right now?

How are you saving money?

And I came across this really interesting concept.

It's called the Buy Nothing Group.

And it's basically a local community where you give things away for free and you get them for free.

And the goal is pretty much to fight consumerism and promote the idea of sharing.

Like the whole old adage, the one man's trash is another man's treasure.

It's pretty cool because it's like we live in this society now where it's so easy to just one click order on Amazon and just buy the thing that you need in that instant.

And it's like, do we really need to purchase that?

Do we all need things that are new?

Do we all need things right in that moment?

So these groups, the idea behind it is that you give things away and you get things and we share and just really help each other save money in that way.

Yeah.

I actually jumped online and joined one of these groups last week.

And it's pretty interesting.

You had to type in like the nearest major intersection to make sure that you actually lived in the local community and you could only join one group.