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Buy Nothing Beerwah kicks off
Gift economy for local region
A new Facebook group, set up by local Jaye Lange, hopes to encourage a sense of community and giving through its concept of an online gift economy with the Buy Nothing Project.
The closed group, of which Jaye is a volunteer administrator, welcomes locals within the Beerwah, Glass House Mountains, Landsborough and Peachester region to join the initiative, which originated in the United States.
“It gives locals a chance to give and share with their neighbours,” Jaye said.
“And while it starts out about stuff, it really turns out to be about people and being able to help others where they can.”
She first got involved in the initiative while living in Perth, where she had an oversupply of children’s toys she no longer needed and was able to pass them on to others in the group who needed toys.
“There’s no exchange of money, that’s not what it’s about,” she said.
“When we moved back to the Glass House Mountains area, I noticed that it wasn’t really used here so I decided to get it up and running locally.”
Jaye said while the global initiative runs successfully elsewhere, it is just in its beginnings on the Sunshine Coast and she hopes to increase the local group’s members for the community to experience the positive effect and to start finding homes for gifts.
