One Woman's Trash is a College Student's Treasure

It's been a long weekend. At Really Natural's offices in Cambridge, MA, we've been watching all the students move back, and seeing green. As in dollar bills.

NPR ran a story a couple of weeks back on the money college students spend going back to school. Buying new computers, furnishing dorm rooms. It got us thinking. Is there a way to make that spending any greener and better for the planet? And just as important -- how do we get our share of all that dough?

Well, the answer is simple: Craiglist (www.craiglist.org). With our digital camera, a keyboard, and a high speed internet connection, we held a modern day yard sale, posting all the stuff that's been sitting in storage and cleaning our spare room. Sofabed inherited from the husband's parents? Gone, with $60 in our pocket. Office chair leftover from our dot com days? Gone, for $25. Old desk, a lamp, a butterfly chair? Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-CHING. At the end of the weekend, our spare room is cleaner, we're $370 richer, and our old stuff is finding new life in dorm rooms around the city. Now that's what I call making money and making a difference. Class dismissed.

-- Jess Brooks

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