Get Ready To Swap Away

How do you trade the things you don’t want for things you do? As in how do you exchange that set of very expensive presidential biographies you bought for your now ex-boyfriend to inspire him to read? It’s not like you need a second set of them.

To purge yourself of the bad memories they conjure up, go to SwapTree.com, a site where you can trade books, music, movies, and videos that you don’t want, for the books, CDs, DVDs, videos that you do want. 

And, obviously, it’s for free. We aren’t going to give you more ways to deplete your bank account – the economy and the government has that under control...

But we digress.

SwapTree isn’t like other auction or used items sites where you can buy or sell. On SwapTree, your items will just cost you the price of shipping.

To start swapping, enter the list of things you have (using the bar code on the back of the item – every item has one), then click the want list (side note: a little icon will show up to indicate items that you can receive in trade), and then swap away. The most labor-intensive part of the whole thing is entering your shipping address.

Confused how this could be so simple? Click here for more instructions about how to start making your swaps.

Ready, set, swap.