Two comments here...

1) The Freecycle does have local chapters all over the US, someone would have to do a search for the towns nearby them to see if there's a local chapter for that area.

2) I'm not poor (not rich either) but I am a scavenger by nature, I could just be a pack rat though. I'm always checking out between the washers/dryers at the laundromat for dropped quarters also under monkey bars at the playground, and will stop to pry a single penny loose from the pavement during an ice storm.

I can't ever imagine myself scavenging food but I have been known to pick up items occassionally from the curbs. I once needed one of those old fashioned metal tubs for my firepit ashes but boy those things are hard to find and expensive. One day while riding my bike around town I found a HUGE pile of junk at the curb, sorta looked like someone was moving out. In that pile was a perfectly good tub just like I was looking for! No holes, no rust, handles still in great shape, clean even, the only flaw was that it had one small dent on it. I snapped that puppy up and rode it home on my bike. I sure musta been a sight riding with that big thing. LOL Hubby once found a slighly stained but perfectly useable small coleman cooler just the perfect size for our fishing worms.