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Free Stuff in Los Angeles

Free stuff in Los Angeles, from close by.

Givore is a free app. Somebody puts up a thing they are done with, a neighbor asks, and it goes to them. Nothing is sold. Plenty of people here already scroll the Craigslist free stuff page for Los Angeles. This covers the same ground, except the first thing you see is how far away the item is.

A curb alert, and what happens after it.

Setting a chair out front with a sign taped to it is the oldest version of this. Sometimes it goes perfectly. Here is the rest of it.

It is gone in ten minutes

The good version. You never learn who took it and you never answer a single message.

Nobody comes

The chair sits there all evening. By morning it is dusty and the seat has a mark on it.

You carry it back inside

Now it is in the hallway again. Next month the whole thing starts over.

A photo does the same job

The chair stays indoors, clean and dry, until somebody is actually on the way to get it.

Who gets it, and how that is decided

1. Everyone waiting is visible

Tapping reserve puts you on a list the giver can see. There is no race to be first.

2. The giver picks

They might choose whoever can come tonight, or whoever lives two streets away. It is their call.

3. You set a time

Message in the app and agree on when. Putting something up yourself takes about thirty seconds.

Start with the thing in your hallway.

There is one item you keep stepping around. Photograph that one tonight.

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Givore cat mascot helping a Los Angeles neighbor give away a chair Givore cat mascot holding a free item for a Los Angeles pickup

Other cities, and a couple of guides.

Questions from Los Angeles

Both are free and both are local. Craigslist hands you a list of posts and an email relay. Givore shows you how far away something is first, and you reserve it inside the app.
For a couch, yes. A lot of what people pass on fits in a trunk or a back seat. Ask about size and stairs before you say yes to anything.
It is new here and still small. Posting something is what makes it useful, so the giving side matters more right now than the collecting side.
They work well where people have built them up, and plenty of members use both. Givore has no group to be approved into. You open the map and you are in.