Week two of the new twoshirts.org was exciting for us! We saw lots of folks signing up and tons of new items posted. Plus there are a couple of cool new features to the website we want you to know about:

• Ohio broke 100 items posted this past week! So many of you have responded to our challenge to get 1000 items posted by the end of the month, thank you and let's keep it up!

  One new user in particular named Sarron is lighting the listings on fire with almost 40 items posted to give away! Wow!

  Later this week we will be announcing the very exciting - yet virtually useless - prize for the person with the most posts. Will anyone give Sarron some competition for the title?

  We've added a discussion board called "Saying Thanks" in the Cafe portion of the Forums. Since some of you have already started giving items away to each other (good job!), why not take the time to extend your thanks publicly to each other for the generosity.

Wow, it's been an amazing week here at Twoshirts.org! The word is getting out faster than we expected, some of you are posting free items way beyond the call of duty (you must like Dave & Busters!), and on top of it all we've added a couple more cool features to the website.

Week 4 was an exciting one for us because we broke 100 visits in one day for the first time, with 111 visits on Tuesday the 22nd. Altogether we had 573 visits this past week and a total of 8,641 pageviews. Even more amazing, this week alone we've had visitors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Iran, Iraq, Canada, Switzerland, Estonia, South Korea, Australia, and Singapore! In the U.S. most of our visitors came from Ohio (421), New York (29), California (23), and Michigan (15).

All this without any effort to advertise the site.

In case you didn't notice we've had an explosion of items being posted in Ohio, so now we're up to 233 (as of this moment). Keep it up everyone. The more we have to give, the more we can impact our communities with generosity.

Our latest weekly wrap up is also really a monthly wrap up, because we want to share with all of you how unbelievably successful the Twoshirts community (that's you) was in it's first official month since the re-lauch.

• This week we reached a grand total of 607 FREE items being given away in the Columbus area alone. When you count what's been given away already, that's almost 700 items total - which is not so far from our original goal of 1000. Great job everybody, you're really demonstrating an amazing form of generosity!
• Norret and Sarron won our January inventory challenge by posting an incredible 186 and 136 items, respectively. They deserve alot of respect from the rest of us, as well as the $50 Dave and Buster's cards they won for their efforts. Have fun guys!
• Today we announced our challenge for the month of February. Don't miss it!

It's been another great week here at Twoshirts.org. The community continues to grow in surprising ways. More people have joined this week than in any previous week and we've seen the addition of two new Groups as well.

Altogether 57 people joined the growing community of generosity here at Twoshirts.org this week - most of whom were from outside Columbus, Ohio! We now have folks from the Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Dayton areas. Welcome guys, it's good to have you here!

Some of these new members have taken the initiative to start Twoshirts Groups; if you click here you'll see that we added an OSU campus group and a Cincinnati group. If any of you are in these areas, all you have to do to join these groups is click the "subscribe" link next the the group you want to join at the groups page.

Well folks, I have to apologize for skipping our Weekly Wrap Up last week. Its been a crazy two weeks for me and I missed it completely. So today you get the unbelievable opportunity to get TWO Weekly Wrap Ups for the price of one!

As some of you probably suspect, the past two weeks were huge for the Twoshirts community. We reached several milestones:

• We had our single biggest traffic day yet on February 13, with 361 visits by 204 visitors.
• 7 of the last fourteen days have seen over 200 visits. To put that in perspective, in the last week of January we were averaging about 75 visits each day.
• We now have Twoshirts members in 28 different states, and have broken the 300 member mark in Ohio!
• The contest for most invitations seems to be heating up! Can Brian Stevenson hold onto his lead? Remember, the contest ends this Friday, so get busy inviting folks! It's still not too late to win this thing!

Today we have another weekly/monthly update and lots of things to report. It's been another very exciting week around here and a record-breaking month for Twoshirts after only two months since the re-launch.

First and foremost, you probably already know that we announced the winners of our February challenge this week. Congrats to Brian, Trena, Greg, Wes, and the Forney's.

I stumbled across a great film this week about the problems of a consumer economy. So I started a blog series about it here, and I'd really like to have a community discussion around this subject. I think Twoshirts has a unique role to play in this issue, so go there and share your thoughts.

Last week was a little quieter here at Twoshirts with all the contests and challenges behind us, but there are still some very cool things happening, so be sure not to miss out!

• You may have noticed that Ohio broke 800 free items this week. Amazing! Best of all, it's not just one or two people. So many of you are getting into the act of freely letting go of your stuff. Great job!
• We had 65 new members join this week, and judging by the poll in the right-hand sidebar, many are coming from Craigslist. Welcome everyone!
• Several people continue to participate in our blogging series on the Story of Stuff at Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Come in and join us as we explore the connections between American consumer spending and social injustice. Part three is coming today.

It was a fun week for the growing Twoshirts community. One of the things I love about this group is that you're not just all about interacting online. You're the kind of people who care about each other and your communities, and you showed that this week in a number of ways by getting together and showing how much you care.

• The Grove City Vineyard Group had a meet up at Nora's Cafe on Wednesday night, and it was a blast! I really enjoyed hanging out with everyone and putting faces to some of the user names I see around here all the time. It sounds like we're going to make this a monthly gathering, so if you're in the Grove City area, feel free to join our group and come on by.