I started with letting friends know I was moving into an empty apartment. Vacuum cleaner was one of the very few things I bought (Shark, Costco, about $100, worked great). People have so much stuff in their garages! One coworker gave me an entire set of Le Creuset cookware
because her husband was remodeling the kitchen and the color didn't fit the new design. Yep. So happy to know people whose husbands are... particular about that kind of thing!
AND -- I don't know if I ever told you guys this, but when I was leaving the state a few years later and getting ready to take everything to goodwill, a young gal I knew contacted me on Facebook and said "I just left an abusive boyfriend and I have nothing but the clothes on my back." So I was able to pay it forward -- and that felt great!
