It’s the person who wants to deliver your mom’s favorite flavor of oatmeal; the person who will stand in a grocery line for an hour, when you can’t. What exactly is the Buy Nothing Project? RonWLATimes explains:
COVID-19 led to logjams at ports and borders that continue to ripple through many parts of our economy and everyday life. When will it get better?“There were a number of different social forces that were pushing this over the finish line,” saidin Philadelphia and author of more than 30 books on such things as consumer behavior, social media marketing, advertising and fashion psychology.
Ramona Monteros, a mother of two who lives in North Hollywood, joined her group in 2018, when it had just 40 members. It grew to 400 members in pre-pandemic 2020, and new members continued to pour in. “The app really gives you control of how far you want to go,” she said. “You don’t have someone setting boundaries for you. You set those parameters yourself. So that’s going to be, I think, super cool when I’m able to find people on a map near me and I can just zone in on maybe who’s there.”How a simple query on Buy Nothing, TikTok and Nextdoor fueled a DIY greenhouse during COVID-19 — and turned strangers across L.A. into friends.
There are also other ways group members can support one another, co-founder Clark said, noting that co-founder Rockefeller maintains a lending library of party supplies that lets the Buy Nothing borrower put on a shindig for 100 people, down to the wine glasses, tablecloths and napkins. Her favorite Buy Nothing story involved a friend who fled the coronavirus hot spot of New York and safely delivered a girl in New Haven, Conn., with the help of Seppälä's midwife. But in her haste to escape, the woman left behind everything she would need as a new mom.
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