Trust me on that one.

EVERYONE should use Craig's List for everything if possible, you'll get the best prices for everything and can sell stuff on it too. We found our new apartment on it. If you go to http://www.craigslist.org/ it will take you to the San Francisco page, and on the right there are listings of the different cities it services. The city Lists include surrounding areas, so for South Bend you might want to click "Chicago" or something like that.

Freecycle is http://www.freecycle.org and you can join your (old and new) neighborhood one that way.

As I said before, do lots of internet searches! The Tightwad Gazette was written when the internet was piddly.