My New BPN

I haven't really been keeping up on my scorn of Berkeley Parents Network lately, and I'm sorry for that. I haven't been reading the newsletters lately, plus, how many times can I read about whether its normal for 7-year-olds to be clairvoyant, babies to cry and husbands to secretly look at porn? Been there, done that.

My new Berkeley-esque guilty pleasure is Freecycle. With Freecycle, you give stuff away instead of throwing it in the trash. Logical, right? And for the most part (based on three days of membership) it involves IKEA lamps, packing peanuts and humidifiers. That is, people want to give those away or get them. But here's why I know I will like it. Today, one post was:

TAKEN: 80s R&B Cassettes
Bag full of cassettes, mostly 80s R&B like Bell Biv Devoe, New Edition, Boyz II Men, etc. Please send phone # to arrange pickup.

In other words, someone offered cassettes of BBD, New Edition, and Boyz II Men (yes, they are separate groups) for free, and someone else took them. Voila! How lovely is that!?