The Cure for Pandemic Isolation Is Low-Stakes Neighborhood Drama

Your local Facebook group is more than a way to score half a bag of cat litter

Annaliese Griffin
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 11, 2021

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Recently I nipped my online shopping habit in the bud, and here’s my secret: Instead of buying new stuff, I post the stuff I no longer need on my local Buy Nothing Facebook page. Somehow, it scratches the same itch for…

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Annaliese Griffin
Forge
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Annaliese Griffin is a writer and editor who most recently led the Quartz Daily Obsession, an award-winning newsletter. She lives in Vermont with her family.