We furnished a three bedroom home including all the kitchen utensils with free items from Craigslist.
The house was donated, we had volunteers re-do all the landscaping. We got tons of paint for free, also from Craigslist, painted everything. Then filled the home with nice, mostly used, furniture including a 9 foot pool table, all for free.
Then we gave the home with the deed to a recently homeless widow mother of four. The only thing we paid for was an occupancy inspection from the county $98.00.