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AKA MY TWO CENTS ON TEXT TRACKING TURKEY

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This Thanksgiving I will include in the list of blessings I am thankful for the Craigslist Philly Free Stuff Community. I am grateful for the items I have been able to receive through this resource and even more grateful for the opportunity to share my excess and extras with people I meet when they drive from Philly or Jersey to my house for the swap, but who I know before I meet, because everyone here has so much in common with me।

Over generally speaking, the majority of those who post here are generous, polite, caring and conscientious Philly natives (with a few imports like myself.) Organized one must be to manage the influx of response to popular listings and fairly distribute the goods to interested parties in the accepted status quo order in which they responded. Diligent one must be to both arrange meeting times and follow through with the meeting schedule as planned. Brave, it seems are some who must overcome fears of interacting over the web and letting down carefully held armor and exposing our personal information, phone numbers, email addresses and home addresses to make the arranged exchange।

Curbside alerts are a potluck grab bag equalizer on the playing field here, allowing the most local to circumvent the most consistently online purveyors of the "GOODS." They allow casual generosity and even provide an opportunity to give away the belongings of our neighbors or strangers eyed in passing-by with a quick listing (in case your junk is too valuable to part with) or if you've achieved perfection in a clutter and waste free state I can only aim for in the distance. Official listings scheduled days ahead of time are just as common for list loving planning sharers of the free stuff।

The treasures I have seen offered . .i.e. running cars, working laptops, pool tables, jacuzziis, event tickets, leather couches, appliances, plumbing fixtures, scrap metal, tools, landscaping equipment, not to mention yard sale leftovers, hand me downs, household overflow, house plants and even the living landscape have been listed - the fuel offered - including gasoline, heating oil, and cut and carry firewood - not to mention the if you can haul it you can have it specials for those with a truck, six friends, and six pianos। . .

Of course, food, formula, diapers, and coupons are a common currency among this ultra edgy diy, non beat around the bush, and don’t waste time beating a dead bush, instead implementing a green forum that embraces action instead of conceptually debating climate change. Reducing waste & poverty by increasing our own generosity happens because everyone posting and responding on these pages has challenged ideology from our recent past that passed judgment on trash picking. The same social force use to work on individuals too proud to accept charity or ask for what they need, or admit that they had any unmet needs, that they were not self sufficient। .

So this thanksgiving, I am very grateful to be apart of this community unafraid to admit our interconnectedness and interdependency. I am proud that we are a polite bunch with a code of ettiquette governing our generosity. I am also very grateful that along with free frozen turkeys, & anonymous free exchange there is the balance created by catered dinner donations attached to their curious donors with strings of requests strategically created to allow them to explore their neighbors condition. I am pronouncedly grateful that the "free stuff" on craigslist makes sure to include free speech।

I am grateful that freedom of speech is used to critically review content when necessary of the listings posted, and the community awareness and debate about donors tones. Sensitivity to subtle insinuations, and any other content of listings that attempts to judge recipients is appropriate. Those seeking to obtain financial profit or even calculating their loss because their not - or apparently worse - those attempting to "give to the less fortunate" as a transparent mechanism to increase their self worth or self esteem or personally profit in any way from transactions here is quickly identified. I'm grateful in the modern world where our reality is almost entirely based in our economy and our relation to the global market, there is a place where almost any form of selfishness is as unfashionable as fur at a PETA event।

I'm grateful that I fit in with this uncensored crowd. I'm grateful for a place where an attempted transaction resembling capitalistic trade is cast in the same light as a faux fur is viewed by runway spectators during fashion week in Manhattan।

I know that in the modern mainstream perception of our evolving information age, Craigslist has come into it's own and shares the platform of media recognition as a phenomena equally significant and unique to google and wilkepedia, and more relevant to modern technoculture than Microsoft. I know that it is the online (free) instant user published classified employment and trade listings that have replaced traditional print media formats exchanging these types of information that has forced traditional print vendors to completely restructure their business in order to survive and continue in any form due to their decreased usefulness & marketability।

But I appreciate what I percieve to be an even edgier edge to Craiglist's interpretable significance in modern society. I maintain that one of the coolest resources available today (in a way that never before existed on any level beyond coupon swaps at the library and used book drop boxes at your bank branch lobby) are Craiglist "free stuff" listings because of the community that posts and retrieves them and the beauty in that exchange. Most pages of salvaged brick, collected paint inventories, and leftover drywall and carefully removed terracotta rooftiles are filled with the materials I use to remodel my view of our society। Posts or flagged and deleted post scripts provide their readers with updated literary landscape, and view of a new world order.

And in closing, my opinions can be validated if referenced against an online source whose purpose is FEEDING BUZZ: http://www.buzzfeed.com features an article entitled Hippie Capitalism:

"Business Buzz Entrepreneurs using capitalism to do good and help others. Here are some cases where capitalism isn’t totally evil and destroying innocent lives while creating vast wealth discrepancies। Except for maybe the Wal-Mart example which was only included because Communist Wal-Mart is a totally awesome concept. "

Source <http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/Hippie_Capitalism>

The article features 14 links which I find relevant to the ideas I've expressed here, so I've taken the liberty to attach them below. NOTICE: CRAIGSLIST RANKS SECOND FOR THE ATTRIBUTES I PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS BEING THEIR MOST CHARACTERISTIC, AND MOST IMPORTANT OR RELEVANT IN DISCUSSION. Check out their featured company and their links. Craigslist, like the users in the "free stuff" community finds itself once again in good company।

For these reasons I suggest there are many more positive things to state about other posters listings and their authors than faults. As we enter the holiday season we have a choice to be charitable as we have a choice on what we focused and comment on. We also have a choice to flag listings and become offended or to be tolerant and leave that up to those getting paid for that.

Here's those links:

BuzzFeed’s Links

• 1
  “The hippie-capitalist wisdom of CD Baby founder Derek Sivers”
  laweekly.com
• 2
  Craigslist Doesn’t Care about Money
  dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
• 3
  “How hippies built the internet”
  10zenmonkeys.com
• 4
  Laser-Etching Company Gives Away Business Plan for Free
  engadget.com
• 5
  Muhammad Yunus’ New Capitalism Helps Poor Women in Bangladesh
  radar.planetizen.com
• 6
  Fast Company’s 2007 Social Capitalist Awards
  socialroi.com
• 7
  Business Hippies: Wall Street Types Dig Burning Man
  gawker.com
• 8
  Santa Encourages Kids to Save Energy Instead of Being Greedy Spoiled Brats
  blogs.guardian.co.uk
• 9
  Hedge Fund Focusing on “Green” Clean Technology Companies
  kurzmancleantech.com
• 10
  Wal-Mart Allows Employees to Unionize in China
  business.knowmoremedia.com
• 11
  Starbucks “Hippie” Capitalism Is Fake, Doesn’t Count, Unauthentic
  nevikmoore.livejournal.com
• 12
  Joe Francis’ Community Service Is Mandated, Not Voluntary
  goodmagazine.com
• 13
  Hippie Capitalists Make the BEST Beach Towns..
  salemslots.blogspot.com
• 14
  JamBase empowers independent artists to promote themselves.
  jambase.com

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I am grateful that I am learning how to publish to the web so quickly.

I am grateful that I am increasing my site traffic today.

I am grateful that I have so many ideas to explore.

Original Craigslist postings:

Thanksgiving Dinner (This is not a promotion do not flag)

Reply to: sale-926383093@craigslist.org

Date: 2008-11-19, 9:49PM

My family would like to help your family this year for Thanksgiving. We will provide all the fixings for you to cook Thanksgiving dinner for your family. We are asking that you be honest and tell us your story and why you are in need. We are looking for a family with children or a single mother or single father with children. We would like the family to be in our local area such as Lansdale, Towamencin, North Wales, Harleysville, Skippack. Please be honest when telling us your story and email it to us and we will select the family to bring everything to the Wed. before Thanksgiving. Everyone has a rough patch now and again and I think it is important to help out if possible. Thanks!

Original URL:http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/926383093.html

Response to the Response: Free Thanksgiving Dinner

Reply to: sale-926397124@craigslist.org

Date: 2008-11-19, 10:02PM

That was a funny response. I get what you are saying about those people esp because I know people on both sides of the fence..kinda like it seems as though they are removed from the situation. A lot of times people are removed from the situation of what it is like to struggle to get food on Thanksgiving..but pls these people are just as unfortunate as the unfortunate because they feel guilty!!

Now with that being saying dont harrass these people because they too are unfortunate and must seek out ways to level their feelings..but you are just as bad if you continue with this ignorance. We as good people (Christians, Muslims, etc.) should offer a resolution. It would feel uncomfortable, thinking about it, if I was invited over and not having a family or food to eat. What they could do is go to the local church and ask if there is a family that would like to spend Thanksgiving...we all have these people and every city has a church. This would be more appropiate. Another thing, When I donated, I was skeptical about doing this online. If you don't have food to eat...Mr. Doctor, lawyer, high society person...HOW IN GOD'S NAME WOULD YOU HAVE THE INTERNET!!!! THINK ABOUT IT...Donate to church's and organizations like TBN...don't bring strange people into your homes...You are looking for problems...what are you looking for an orgy!!!

Blessings

• Location: Delco
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL:http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/926397124.html

To the IDIOT Making Comments about Others/Thanksgiving Dinner

Reply to: (see message body)

Date: 2008-11-19, 10:25PM

Does it make YOU feel better to come on Craigslist and degrade people for offering a Thanksgiving dinner? No matter what their motive, it's not for you to decide if they want to offer it. Your worse than them, because you have to put them down to make yourself feel better about being an asshole. Get alife and stop making dumb comments on the free section of Craigslist.

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL:http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/926420850.html

Re: Thanksgiving Dinner IDIOT...

Reply to: (see message body)

Date: 2008-11-19, 11:05PM

Good for you for calling that IDIOT out. I agree, people should keep comments to themselves here. Go to the Forums section if you want to bitch. Keep this section free...

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL:http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/926459832.html

post to the post to the thanksging post....

Reply to: sale-926482855@craigslist.org

Date: 2008-11-19, 11:32PM

"We as good people (Christians, Muslims, etc.) should offer a resolution....What they could do is go to the local church and ask if there is a family that would like to spend Thanksgiving...we all have these people and every city has a church....Donate to church's and organizations like TBN...don't bring strange people into your homes...You are looking for problems...what are you looking for an orgy!!!

i'm glad i don't go to your stupid church! what if they are athiest? agnostic? not like you? at the very least, this probably isn't any of your business and i'm unsure why you would waste your time replying in such a silly manner.

• Location: some church
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL:http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/zip/926482855.html

Earlier this month, and still unflagged for removal:

15 LB FROZEN TURKEY FOR THANKSGIVING (MAYFAIR/19136)

Reply to: sale-924369970@craigslist.org [?]

Date: 2008-11-18, 2:38PM EST

I HAVE A 15 LB TURKEY THAT I EARNED SPENDING MONEY AT SHOPRITE BUT I REALLY DON'T NEED IT,,,IF YOU NEED IT,,AND I MEAN REALLY REALLY NEED IT,,COME GET IT,,,,,,CONTACT CRASH72MVP@AOL.COM

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**FREE THANKSGIVING MEAL & FAMILY FOR NEEDY FAMILY (LAND OF CARING)

Reply to: sale-912013581@craigslist.org [?]

Date: 2008-11-09, 2:10PM EST

OFFERING A FREE WARM MEAL AND A FAMILY TO ANOTHER FAMILY IN NEED. WE WILL OPEN OUR DOORS AND HEARTS IF YOU NEED A THANKSGIVING MEAL AND A FAMILY THIS YEAR.

REMEMBER YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE AND HUNGRY.. WE CARE.

YOU ARE NEVER ALONE WHEN YOU HAVE GOD IN YOUR HEART, BUT COME AND JOIN OUR FAMILY AND WE CAN SHARE GOD'S LOVE TOGETHER OVER A WARM MEAL.

LOOKING FOR A FAMILY TRUELY IN NEED UP TO TWO KIDS ARE OK.

GOD BLESS YOU. WE EXPECT MANY REPLIES SO IF WE DON'T GET BACK TO YOU THAT IS WHY AS WE CAN ONLY ASSIST SO MANY. WISH WE COULD HELP EVERYONE...

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Finish with this morsel of meat:

Nov 19, 2008

1980's Lifestyles and Social Trends | Baby Boomers Become "Yuppies"

The Rise of the Young Urban Professionals.

At the end of the 1970s Jerry Rubin, onetime radical antiwar activist, began working on Wall Street, a surprising event that the media saw as symbolic of a change taking place in the baby-boom generation: the radicals of the 1960s counterculture were growing proestablishment. Mean-while, with less publicity than Rubin, other members of the huge baby-boom generation were also revising their antiestablishment views. Faced with the energy crisis and the runaway inflation of the 1970s, many former student activists were deciding financial power and economic security were goals not to decry but to emulate. Distrust and disdain of corporate America dissipated. Careers in business, once loudly derided, grew increasingly respectable. As the recession of the early 1980s gave way to economic boom times, success American style began to occupy the pedestal baby boomers had once reserved for social...

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