In her local Buy Nothing group in Seattle, neighbors share what they have ... group boundaries that recreated historic redlined maps. Leadership is considering what it might look like to have ...

Micro-neighborhood groups flourish on Facebook and on a Buy Nothing app. Myrna Hoffman has been a member from the very start. When people visit her home in West Seattle, she offers “the grand ...

Crescent Moegling says “buy-nothing” has been a verb in her home for years. The Seattle woman helped get the city’s first group off the ground in 2013; now there are more than 100 groups ...

Buy Nothing grew exponentially. Within a month, there was a sister group in North Kitsap, then one in California, then Seattle. By the end of 2013, 57 groups totaled 10,000 members across the U.S ...

Buy Nothing groups and the gift economy they seek to promote have surged during the pandemic. (Anna Gusella / For The Times) It's never been easier to get involved in the Buy Nothing Project ...

The Buy Nothing app, which has about 7 million users, was started by a pair of friends from the Seattle area who were tired of watching people's unused items wash ashore in their neighborhood.

From medical supplies to half-eaten birthday cakes, Buy Nothing is fostering a quirky sense of community that is mostly fun and occasionally irritating. By Ronda Kaysen David Stahl did not need ...