Welcome to our growing collection of how to share posts, which can help you save money, reduce waste, and build community through sharing. In fact, Shareable’s co-founder Neal Gorenflo made new friends and saved $17,000 in 2011 during his “Year of Living Shareably.” Try one of the guides and let us know how it goes.

Table of Contents

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Housing

Food

Family

Community

Cities

Neighborhoods

Transportation

Technology

Work

Entrepreneurship

Travel

Education

The Commons

Money

Miscellaneous

Get Started

Six ways to start sharing

Shareable’s Top 20 ‘How To’ Share Guides

Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing

The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption

Housing

How to create a tiny house village

How to start a housing co-op

How to share a house: A case study

How to Stop Foreclosure through Homesharing

How to Start Your Own Waterpod

Six Ways to Stay Warm without Central Heating

Panning for Gold: How to Find and Keep a Housemate

How to Compost for Cohousing

Homes on the Range: A Homesteader’s Manifesto

How to Go Solar If You Can’t Put Panels on Your Roof

How to Live Off-the-Grid in a Tiny House

How to Divide Rent Fairly

4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program

Food

How to Share a Chicken (or Two)

How to Raise Urban Chickens

How to Start a Farmers’ Market

How to Share a Cow

How to Share a Vegetable Garden

How to Start a Crop Mob

How to Reinvent the Potluck

The Shareable Feast

How to Host a Stranger Dinner

How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child

Top 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Coop

How to Grow a Garden on Your Balcony

How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session

Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden

Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay

How to Share Land

How to Start a Crop Swap

How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving

How to Dumpster Dive, Eat Free & Fight Waste

How to Glean for Good

The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing

How to Enjoy a Free, Moveable Feast of Weeds

How to Host a Permablitz

How to Start a Grocery Co-op

How to Be an Urban Fruit Forager

How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community

How to Host a Great Canning Session

10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town

How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving

Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners

10 Shopping Tips from a Farmers’ Market Manager

11 Tips for Running a Successful Food Waste Reduction Campaign

How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community

How to Host a Seed Swap

Family

How I avoided holiday shopping through a donation exchange

How to Share a Nanny

How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child

How to Start a Nature Group for City Kids

How to Share an Education

How to Throw a Toy Exchange

How to Teach Your Kid to Share

Make Your Holiday a Shared Affair

How to Design Family-Friendly Transit

How to Share School Transportation—and Why

How to Raise Non-Competitive Kids

DIY ‘I Do’: How to Plan a Shareable Wedding

How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving

Five Easy Ways to Have a Shareable Halloween

How to Create a Walking School Bus in Your Neighborhood

Rethinking Mother’s Day: 6 Shareable Ways to Lighten Mom’s Load

Webinar: How to Start a Childcare Cooperative

5 Tips to Unbrand Your Kids

How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap

Community

How to Start a Gift Circle

How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff

How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community

How to Throw a House Concert

How to Start a Really Really Free Market

How to Start Your Own Skillshare

How To Organize a Successful Skillshare

Eight Ways to Share Your Stuff with the World

How to Share a Chicken (or Two)

How to Start a Farmers’ Market

How to Throw a Community Swap Meet

How to Share Time Through Timebanking

How to (Legally) Open a Gift (Economy)

How to Share an Education

How to Host a Stranger Dinner

The Shareable Feast

How to Reinvent the Potluck

How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library

How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group

How to Start a Critical Mass Ride

How to Create a Successful Collective

How to Start a Crop Mob

How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library

How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session

How to Throw a Succesful Yard Sale

How to Share in a Dialogue Despite Differences

How to Share the Big Stuff

How to Manage Usage of a Shared Asset

How To Share Land

Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden

Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay

How to Start a Revolution

How to Stage a Clothes Swap

How to Stage a Media Swap

How to Map Assets & Expose Real Wealth for Shared Futures

Cultivating a Sustainable Community

How to Host a House Concert

10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood

How to Make a Party Box to Share with Your Neighbors

Sunday Soup: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

How to Host a Cash Mob

How to Start a Community Currency

How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community

How to Start Your Own Free Store

The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing

How to Make Better Decisions Together

How to Host a Great Sharing Event

How to Build Sustainable Communities – Let’s Collaborate NYC

How to Organize a Citywide Garage Sale

How to Host a Permablitz

How to Change the World by Building a Swarm

How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community

How to Start a Community Land Trust

10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town

How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving

How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities

Learn to Jam: 20 Tips for Making Music with Friends

How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community

10 Steps to Running an Offers and Needs Market

How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community

10 Steps to a Healthier Community through Social Marketing

How to Host a Seed Swap

So You Want to Build a Little Free Library?

16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library in Your Town

Cities

How to Organize a ShareFest

Host Guide for the Sharing Cities Map Jam

How to Design Cities to Counter Racism

How to Swap Cities

7 Ways to Reinvent Your City, Burning Man Style

How to Create Abundant Cities

12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City

How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities

How to Design Family-Friendly Transit

How to Create a Bike Corridor

How to Be an Urban Change Agent, Shareable Style

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden

How to Fall in Love With the Place You Live

How to Be a Citizen Placemaker: Think Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper

How to Map the New Economy in Your City

How to Create Engaging Public Spaces

How to Host a Permablitz

How to Create Abundant Cities

7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers

10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town

How to Get the World Walking

5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community

How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop

How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art

How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs

How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair

How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access

How to Free the Soil by Depaving

Neighborhoods

How to Plant a Habitat Garden at the Local Playground

How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group

How to Build a Better Neighborhood

How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library

How to Make a Street Carfree

How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library

How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar

How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness

How to Encourage Recycling in Your Neighborhood

How to Build a Better Block

10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood

How to Kick Off a Shareable Spring

Bring Transition Town-Style Sharing Into Your Community

How to Make a Free Things Box

How to Host a Permablitz

10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town

How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities

How to Negotiate a Communities Benefit Agreement

How to Get the World Walking

How to Design a Shared Backyard

How to Free the Soil by Depaving

How to Set Up a Neighborhood Exchange Box in 4 Easy Steps

How to Start a Social Street

Transportation

How to Be a Carfree Family

How to Share Your Car with a Stranger

How to Share a Car (Part I)

How to Share a Car (Part II)

How to Make a Street Carfree

How to Design Family-Friendly Transit

How to Share School Transportation—and Why

How to Carpool with Strangers

How to Improve Bike Signage

How to Create a Bike Corridor

How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone

The A-B-C of Winter Biking

12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City

How to Run a Bike Valet

How to Become a Tech Nomad

How to Start Your Own Car Sharing Program

How to Make a Community More Walkable

How to Build a Bike-Portable Rolling Cart

How to Share Your Car Like a Pro in 5 Easy Steps

7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers

Cycling Etiquette

Five Crucial But Easy Bike Maintenance Tips

How to Share Your Parking Space

Introducing People to Bike Riding (Without Ruining Their Day)

5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community

14 Ways to Make a Protected Bike Lane

How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop

How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art

How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs

How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair

How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access

Technology

How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar

How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading

How to Find Jobs Through Social Media

How to Start Your Own Waterpod

How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone

Keeping New Year’s Resolutions With Social Media

I Made An iPad eBook in One Weekend (And You Can Too!)

How to Set Up An Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood

How to Share an eBook

How to Learn from Open Resources Online

How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace

How to Join the Open Wireless Movement

How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community

How to Create an eBook the Open Source Way

Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet

How to Choose An Open Source Hardware License

How to Choose An Open Source Software License

7 Ways to Lead ‘Swarmwise’ in a Networked World

10 Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

How to Build a FabLab

How Non-programmers Can Contribute to Open Source Projects

10 Ways to Get Started with Open Source

How to Write Your Book Using Linux

How to Integrate Open Collaboration into Your Project

How to Make a Collaborative Video in 7 Steps

How to Convert Facebook Fans to E-mail Subscribers in 5 Easy Steps

Work

How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part I)

How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part II)

How to Find Jobs Through Social Media

How to Hire for a Democratic Company

How to Share Your Job Search

How to Promote New Ideas at Work

How to Design a Workspace for Sharing

How to Foster Passion on the Job

How to Live Your Values at Work

How to Foster Dialogue at Work

How to Vote for Your Boss

How to Decentralize Your Company Structure

How to Democratize Corporate Ownership

How to Make Employees Feel Secure During Tough Times

How to be Open with Financial Information

How Companies Can Help Balance Work and Life

How Can Companies Promote Pay Transparency?

How Big Companies Can Embrace Everyone’s Ideas

How to Jelly: A Guide to Casual Coworking

How to Share a Job

How Gen Y Can Create Its Own Stimulus Package

How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Cowork

Four Steps to Being a Great TaskRabbit Poster

Become a Super-Savvy TaskRabbit Poster

A Coworkers Guide to Slaying Procrastination

Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work

10 Creative Ways to Reuse Extra Office Supplies

How to Share Your Office Space the Right Way

How to Build a Collaborative Hub in a Rural Setting

The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space

How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative

How to Host a Conference Gift Economy Style

10 Lessons from Kenya’s Remarkable Cooperatives

7 Ways to Create a More Democratic Nonprofit

Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home

Entrepreneurship

How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K

Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Accelerate Your Start-Up

How to Swap Cities

How to Start a Worker Co-op

How to Run a Bike Valet

How to Make a Franchise Shareable

How to Create Your Own Green Job

How to Create a Pop-Up Coworking Space

How to Start a Rural Coworking Community

Designing Workspaces for Collaboration

How to Earn $1000s as a Micro-Entrepreneur

Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub

How to Crowdfund Your Campaign or Nonprofit

How to Create a Lively Peer-to-Peer Marketplace

How to Build Trust in the Sharing Economy: Cartoon Edition

How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community

How to Build a FabLab

How to Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms

10 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Social Venture on Social Media

The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space

How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative

8 Best Practices for Creating a Peer-to-Peer Marketplace

How to Run a Business in the Gift Economy

Top 6 Tax Tips for Sharing Economy Micropreneurs

Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home

Travel

How to Swap Cities

How to Become a Technomad

The Ultimate Guide to Traveling Without Money

Education

Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work

How to Share an Education

The Sharing Economy Back to School Survival Guide

Learning Outside the Academy

How to Learn from Open Resources Online

Design It Yourself

Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus

Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School

How to become a lawyer without going to law school

A Guide to Free and Open Source Education

11 Ways to Create a Totally Shareable College Experience

The Commons

How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!)

Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus

The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing

How to Increase Public Land-Sharing in Austin, Texas

How to Free the Soil by Depaving

How to transform plastic “waste” into a bottle brick

How to Start a Social Street

Money

How to Not Pay Taxes

Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing

The Quickstart Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending

How to Start a Community Currency

How to Invest in Good: Energy Efficiency

How to Invest in Good: Community Development Banks and Credit Unions

5 Best Practices for Peer-to-Peer Lending

10 Ways to Democratize the Economy

How to Host a Cash Mob

Miscellaneous

The Top 6 Tips to Sharing & Community for Lifestyle Designers

A Guide to Sharing for Every Season

Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work

How to Keep Sharing Safe

Keeps Your Whites Whiter and Your Skin Itchier

How to Make Art Out of Trash

Shareable’s Top 5 Alternatives to Holiday Shopping

Six Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Permanent Change

How to Start a Repair Cafe

How to Change the World by Building a Swarm

How to Be a Whistleblower and Protect Yourself

How to Date Without Money

How to Start a Reusable Takeout Container Program at Your College

WTF Am I Supposed to Do with My Family on Black Friday?

Six Habits of Highly Grateful People

What’s in your happiness toolbox?

10 Steps to Get Media for Your Sharing Event

4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program

15 Ways to Create a Summer of Sharing

How to Use the Media for Social Change

How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap