Inside the hyper-local world of Facebook’s ‘buy nothing’ groups

In an age when people rarely know their neighbours, a ‘buy nothing’ group is one way to acquaint yourself with those living on your street

We all have things we don’t need. For Canberra resident Zoe Bowman, it is melon ballers.

“Someone asked for a melon baller to make some melon balls for a kid’s party, and I looked in the drawer and I had three,” she says. “I don’t need three melon ballers!”

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/04/inside-the-hyper-local-world-of-facebooks-buy-nothing-groups

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