I Joined a Buy Nothing Group — Here’s What Happened

Helen Hensell
5 min readMay 14, 2022
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

I joined a Buy Nothing Group last year. Now, what is a Buy Nothing Group? A Buy Nothing Group is a group consisting of members (who are also neighbors) who can give and ask freely without any fear of being ostracized for their economic status. It’s not a charity group, but rather about giving to others in the community simply for the sake of helping each other out. Furthermore, it’s about minimizing…

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Helen Hensell

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