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Community Puzzle Swap at the Library

January 24, 2026
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If you don’t live in Austin, encourage your local library branch or system to create something similar!

Not only can you socialize if you want, but you can get a new-to-you puzzle and rehome puzzles you no longer use! Win-win!

A lot of people have puzzles laying around. They either intended to do them and never did, or they did them and don’t like to reuse/redo puzzles. I don’t get sick of puzzles so I don’t need to swap, but we have aged up/out of puzzles for my son so we like to rehome the younger-age puzzles to other kids and find more advances/smaller piece puzzles for him as he gets older.

If you miss a puzzle swap you can rehome or find new-to-you puzzles in a couple of places:

  • libraries

  • community centers

  • faith groups

  • schools

  • after school care programs

  • neighborhood groups like on Facebook or Nextdoor

  • Buy Nothing Project on Facebook or in the app version

Austin Public Library #puzzles #swap #rehome #zerowaste #sustainability