Barnluren Circular
Competition
Win the Garfield phone
A genuine vintage Garfield phone — the world's laziest cat as a working telephone — plus a Barnluren subscription for life. It's free to enter, and sharing this page gives you extra chances.
Sending it in is free — we pay the postage. You get a PostNord QR code straight away; show it at any PostNord service point and they print the label for you. Circular is Sweden-only for now.
How it works
No phone ever leaves the loop. Any Barnluren can start out as someone's old phone, and when the child outgrows it, it rings on in the next family. Here's how it works, step by step.
We believe in reusing old technology.
A phone built to last fifty years shouldn't end up as e-waste after ten in the attic. Every phone we bring back to life is one new phone that never needs to be made: less mining, less manufacturing, less waste. Better for the planet — and honestly, the old ones are nicer.
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1 · The phone in the attic
Sweden has hundreds of thousands of working phones tucked away in attics and dresser drawers. They don't have to become e-waste. They need a child.
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2 · Bring your phone back to life
Fill in the form, attach a photo, and you get a PostNord QR code straight away — we only take working landline phones, not mobiles. Add a few lines about the phone: whose it was, where it lived.
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3 · Check & clean
We check the handset, the ringer and the keypad, and clean it properly. No repairs, no replacement parts — the phone stays exactly what it is.
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4 · Adopt a phone
A family adopts a specific phone — photo, story and all — and gives it a new home.
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5 · The child calls
Grandma, Dad at work, their best friend. A number of their own, a real handset, and no internet.
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6 · The child outgrows it
The day the child gets a mobile of their own, the phone can ring on for a sibling, a friend's family, or the next child in the loop — and it starts all over again.
Bring your phone back to life
Sending it in is free — we pay the postage. You get a PostNord QR code straight away; show it at any PostNord service point and they print the label for you.