Online Co-ops are a good thing

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 3:19 pm

Co-ops are groups of people who get together to buy bulk from manufacturers to get a discounted price. Sometimes the discount isn’t great but much of the time you can get great items for close to wholesale pricing!

I only belong to 2 coops right now but the more I look into them the more I think I might want to join a few more. The 2 groups I belong to are fabric coops and there are a bunch of great hard to find fabrics at great prices!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cloth_diaper_supplies/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClothEssentialsCo-op/

By looking up “coops” or “co-ops” on Yahoo Groups I found one for hot process soapmaking, candles, crafts, toiletry making, baby shoes, cloth diapers, Momufactured Co-ops, and even biodeisel! Those were only on the first three (out of 31) pages that came up!

If you do a lot of sewing or other needle crafts there are a ton of sewing and knitting supply groups.

I simply LOVE the idea of co-ops!