My Life Story
Every ShareWeaver member can write a short life story on their profile. It’s how the people giving things away choose who receives them.
Example
Eugene and the members below are made up, to show how this part of ShareWeaver works.
I served in Korea with the Army in 1951 and 1952, came home, and spent forty years as a machinist. My wife, Dorothy, passed eight years ago, after sixty-one years together.
We raised three children. They have busy lives of their own now and don’t get out to visit, and they think it’s time I moved into a retirement home. I’m not ready.
I still garden every morning, tomatoes and Dorothy’s roses. I volunteer at the food pantry on Thursdays and with the veterans’ honor guard. I built most of the furniture in this house, and I’ve fixed clocks and collected coins since I was a boy. I’d rather see these things go to someone who needs them, and whose story I know, than to strangers at an estate sale.
Her Story
Expecting my first baby in March and starting over on my own. My grandmother always said every mother needs a rocking chair.
His Story
Raising two grandkids on a bus driver’s pension since my daughter passed. Bedtime stories happen on the floor right now.
Her Story
Night-shift nurse’s aide and single mom to a newborn and a four-year-old. We lost most of our furniture in an apartment fire.
His Story
Navy veteran, widowed last spring. My back can’t take the folding chair on my porch anymore.
Their Story
Foster parent to three, with a baby placed with us last week. Everything we own has already been through six kids.
What to write
Share a short version of your life story. Your family life, your successes, your hardships, what you loved and hated most. Let the people who can associate with what you went through pick you when considering to whom they will gift the things they no longer use.
Why it matters
When you’re in need of something a member has listed, choose “In need of this, please bless me.” The owner sees everyone who asked under “In need, could use this,” reads each story, and picks the person they connect with most. You need a story before you can ask.
The heading
You choose what your story is called. An optional gender question (Male, Female, Transgender, Non-binary, Other, or Prefer not to say; pick any that fit) only suggests a heading. Whatever you answer, you pick the heading you identify with.
Who sees what
Life stories are for members only, so join free to read them. Members see your story and its heading on your profile. Your answer to the gender question is never shown to anyone, and we never use either for ads or sell them.
Then encourage your church group, civic group, coworkers, school friends and colleagues to join too, so you can all start turning storage unit and garage clutter into the goods and services you need.
The rules
Up to 1,500 characters. No phone numbers, emails or links: members message you in the app. Write only what you’re comfortable sharing. Stories follow the same content rules as the rest of ShareWeaver.
How to add yours
Open the app, tap Account, and find My Story under your profile photo. It’s also in Community under Edit my profile. Write it, pick your heading, and tap Save my story.
ShareWeaver is about being authentic and honest with each other, and every member is welcome here. See A better way of gifting for what your story makes possible.
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