Love Fridges and Freedges

Grant, you remember our conversation about blessing boxes, those little free pantries that are stocked with canned goods and other household items for anybody who’s in need.

Yeah, that was a great conversation. Blessing boxes are kind of the dry goods version of little free libraries where people have extra canned goods and household items can make them available to the community. Right. They’re like little free pantries.

And we heard from Joe in Milan, Italy, who told us about something called the Love Fridge. And that’s in Chicago. And that’s a refrigerator that serves the same function in a community. And it turns out that there’ve been hundreds of these springing up around the country in the last few years, and in fact, around the world. And some people call them frieges, F-R-E-E-D-G-E. And it’s the same idea. Take what you need and leave what you can.

Yes, I’ve seen that near a church here in San Diego. My family has left a few items in them when the tiny freezer in our house is a little too full and we’re like, well, this is still good and we haven’t eaten it because it was a gift from somebody else. Let’s go put this in the refrigerator next to the church and maybe somebody else will take it.

Well, you can actually go to freege.org, that’s F-R-E-E-D-G-E.org, and see a map of these freeges all around the country. We’ll see if that word sticks. And thanks to Joe and Milan, who, by the way, communicates with us via WhatsApp. And you can, too, no matter where you are in the world, you can find our WhatsApp contact info on our website at waywordradio.org contact.