‘Trade Your Treasures’ program allows residents to exchange unwanted items

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Window shutters, a chair and a rug adorned Bill Briggs’ sidewalk Saturday for Mount Pleasant’s “Trade Your Treasures” program.

The Mount Pleasant resident has been involved with the program for five years. In the program, residents can exchange unwanted items freely with others by setting them at the curb.

“I just had a lot of junk hanging around, a lot of ‘used treasure.’ I do the program whenever I have something laying around, so I find wherever they are having one,” Briggs said.

His first items to go were an old vanity mirror and a golf cart pull. Briggs said some people start early and get the stuff before anybody else does.

Though the Briggs home had several items, many people said did not hear about the program.

“The only way I even knew about it was from the city newsletter that comes through, there was also one radio advertisement for the program,” said postal carrier and Mount Pleasant resident Cathy Troost. “I think the reason no one is doing it is because of the lack of information, you would have to go searching for it.”