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Article: A not-so-trashy place online; Free Market finds new homes for items that otherwise might have gone in the garbage.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 13, 2005
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Byline: Tom Horgen; Staff Writer
As the rain poured down Wednesday morning, Nancy Wiswell sat on her couch in north Minneapolis feeling a bit melancholy. Movers had arrived to take her century-old piano away. She was giving it to a complete stranger for free.
"It's a bittersweet feeling," she said. "But I need the room. And this lady can play it and enjoy it. And that's what it's for."
Wiswell, 58, is one of many Twin Cities area residents who have discovered the Free Market website -- www.twincitiesfree market.org. The listing service allows users to post free, reusable items - anything from bathtubs to cowboy boots to beanbags - for others ...