Friday, April 10, 2009
The Memorial Stadium parking lot will be home to a giant free garage sale on Monday.
Starting Sunday at noon, students and community members can drop off items they no longer want in lot 94 of Memorial Stadium. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, everything collected will be up for grabs, first-come, first-served.
Andrew Stanley, Overland Park senior, worked with University officials and FreeCycle.org representatives to plan the event.
FreeCycle.org is a Web site operated similarly to Craigslist.com, but everything is free. Members can post objects they no longer want and interested members can ask to pick up the item. For the first time, local FreeCycle moderators are moving away from their computers and onto the University campus.
“When we contacted FreeCycle, they were really excited about it,” Stanley said. “They’d already wanted to do an event like this but they’d never really had a good public space with exposure.”
Stanley said he had acquired posters, a bike and even tomato plants from other Lawrence residents using FreeCycle. He said he wanted to bring an event to the University to give students the opportunity to see how the Web site worked.
“I’ve found things that are quite valuable to me, where somebody else had no use for them anymore,” Stanley said. “It’s important to teach people to value things, and to be creative. Someone else’s trash can be quite valuable.”
Stanley said furniture, books, sports equipment and appliances were among the kinds of items that would be accepted. He said he hoped to see more unique items dropped off as well.
“Maybe some vintage T-shirts or CDs, really anything goes,” Stanley said. “It’s what’s great about it, you can find anything and just leave it up to creativity.”
Stanley said it was important for people not to drop off things that needed to be properly recycled, like broken electronics or hazardous materials.
“But other than that, if it works, it’s fine,” Stanley said.
Stanley said it was important for students to be aware of the opportunity so they would know throwing things away was not their only option.
“It’s really better than recycling because someone can take something you never use or something that’s sitting in your closet waiting to be thrown away,” Stanley said.
Tyler Enders, Leawood sophomore, said he was looking forward to seeing the variety of items that would be donated.
“I think we’ll really get a broad range of things,” Enders said. “I think a lot of things will be stuff we never thought would show up.”
Enders said community members would also be able to donate and take items from the event.
“Hopefully students will really benefit from it,” Enders said.
Stanley said any leftover items would be donated to local Lawrence charities, like the United Way or Goodwill.
— — Edited by Justin Leverett
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