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==Great fun for Parties==
==Great fun for Parties==
It's great for parties: tell people to bring clothes they don't want anymore and have a dress-up party, or simply take some of the fun party goers to the boutique and let them dress up.
It's great for parties: tell people to bring clothes they don't want anymore and have a dress-up party, or simply take some of the fun party goers to the boutique and let them dress up.
==Philosophy==
Keywords: Abundance, post-scarcity, sharing, fun, dumpster diving, post-capitalist, altruism.


==The website==
==The website==

Revision as of 11:38, 9 July 2010

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Boutique Trash Chic is a project to spread the idea to have a place in your house where you keep stuff you give away to guests. It's taking the concept of the Give-away shop with the goal to put it in every one's home.

How to

It's probably best to have the place at the entrance of your house, clearly marked. If you don't have space a box will do as well. Guests are encouraged to leave stuff they want to get rid off and to take stuff they need or they can give as a present to other people (e.g. within hospitality exchange, to their next hosts).

If you have lots of clothes in your boutique it's nice to have one or more mirrors so people can fit.

Boutique

The name Boutique Trash Chic was conceived in Brussels, in the house guaka is living (2010), where there is a space of about 3 by 3 meters in the garage. The "shop" is filled by guests and by the inhabitants of the house who regularly dumpster dive stuff (especially clothes) they don't directly deem useful themselves but that are of good quality and that will make other people happy.

Take and Leave Box

A good concept for people with less space is the take and leave box, see http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=31704 and http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=7621&post=6080361

What kind of stuff?

What we can leave in the Boutique or the Box?

  • Books
  • Clothes & Shoes
    • anything goes, but especially stuff against rain or cold is nice to have around
  • Bathroom Products
  • Beach Sun Cream
  • Travel accessories
  • Toys (freesbe...)
  • Unused Tickets/Pass (Bus, Ferry, Museum...)
  • Nonperishable Food
  • Maps, Travel Guides, Flyers
  • List of Tips, Your favourites from your stay
  • Tents
  • Bike parts
  • Bags, back packs
  • Cellphone and other chargers
  • Foreign coins
  • CD's, tapes
    • fun for hitchhikers and people with tape systems in their cars (hitchhikers often come across cars with tape systems)

For more spacious boutiques:

  • Kitchen stuff
  • Small furniture

What not to leave:

  • Perishable food
  • Dirty stuff
    • If clothes are dirty, wash them first

Reactions

People are often confused and feel weird to take stuff for free the first time. For guaka, it makes him happy to see someone wear some clothes that he hasn't worn in many years and probably wouldn't ever again.

Great fun for Parties

It's great for parties: tell people to bring clothes they don't want anymore and have a dress-up party, or simply take some of the fun party goers to the boutique and let them dress up.

Philosophy

Keywords: Abundance, post-scarcity, sharing, fun, dumpster diving, post-capitalist, altruism.

The website

  • is likely to be up in July 2010 at boutique.trash-chic.org
  • first a simple info site with blog, seeded from this page
  • later social network where people can add their take&leave box or boutique
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