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.

The website

The website was started in July 2010 by Kasper, as a simple Drupal site with a blog, and some pages based on stuff from a page at Sharewiki. Contact Kasper if you want to help or just create an account and see if you can already do something.

The idea is to build a social network where people can add information about their take&leave box or boutique.

Origin of the name Boutique Trash Chic

The name Boutique Trash Chic was conceived in Brussels, in the house guaka is living (2010) on a cold February evening, Dante was also around. There was another spelling boutique trash chique and there were some different ideas, but this one really stuck.
At guaka's place there's 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 - and also just old stuff they don't want (enough) anymore.

Legal

Content is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

There is no legal organization yet but there will be: Post Scarcity Foundation.

Also

There's also a bar and vegan restaurant in Cologne called Trash-Chic, it goes without saying (and trying) that we endorse this place.