Craigslist and Freecycle

I'm a big fan of these two sites.  Instead of buying new you can check out these two sites to see if what you are looking for is available.  It's a great way to prevent some material from going into the dump and reusing what someone wanted to get rid of.  Just today I gave away a truck cap that had about another week before I was going to take it to the dump.  It made the people who took it happy and it made me happy since I knew it was out of the yard and someone was going to use it.