Michael Christensen-Really Free Market- Everyone is invited

I am trying to get a Really Free Market going out of my room tomorrow (wednesday the 28th) from my room. The express purpose is to get rid of a lot of items that I have picked up over the years in college. Now that I am about to graduate, I don't really know where I will end up, and I would rather to not have a lot of things tying me down to a certain amount of space or limiting my ability to transport everything I would need. Also I think it is a good time to start a new life. Out with the old and in with the new.

This is also based on the idea of community, and the exchange of value therein. In my mind, communities are partially about the transference of goods. People find a use in one thing (say a text book or hammer) and as they use it over time they either lose need of it (by having learned from the textbook) or acquire something of better quality (such as a more effective hammer). At that time the object is not doing good for them, and its potential is not being realized. These items then are just sitting around with un-realized potential while people very locally could find find good out of them. To this aim I have before tried to set up barter dates for people to come and exchange goods, but those fizzled. So this time I am giving things away (first to my own chosen community of friends, and then to my expanded communities of less colloquial relations). It is good if people can bring things that others may find use for, so I can include them on the table, but it is not necessary.

So, in that vein, I offer an open invitation to anyone to come by and either set up your own things to give away (I have extra table space) or to come and look at what you can find a use for. Or just to come and hang out, since I will be there all day after 5. And if you cannot make it that day then I will probably still have a selection for a couple days after before I will give the extra to charity. The place is 303B in the Village (above panera). Call 804-337-1343 if you need to be let in.