Giveaways
They have pickups for giveaways.
Yes, some people like to sell their unwantables in rummage sales. However, one year, after spending nine hours tagging all my goods and four hours dragging it outside to set up, I’d made a measly $32 dollars. Divided by the 13 hours I spent, I received a hearty $2.46 an hour.
I can work in a lot of places for more than $2.46 an hour.
So instead of bothering with selling my old stuff, I resort to giving it away.
(Or as the imitable Flylady refers to it as, “Blessing Others”)
The Salvation Army comes for pickups, which I schedule four times a year. Surprisingly, four times a year, we have giveaways enough to fill up the front porch. They leave a receipt for tax purposes and they help keep things shiny.
We’re also fans of Craigslist’s free section. We’ve gotten rid of a giant George Foreman Rotisserie, two wine barrels and a futon whose time had come within hours, just by posting it online. For me, the relief is in the pick up.
Yes, I know that you can load up your car to bring to other worthy places,
yes I know that using a big truck for pickups probably leads to some environmental doom.
But the alternative is a giant stack of unwantables in my garage, blessing *no one* as mouse bait.
Bravo for pickups!
Bravo for blessing!
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Freecycle.org is another excellent way to bless unwanted stuff upon people who can really use it.
Donation is awesome, but stuff tends to sit in my car for months before I remember to stop by an attended donation area. I have used freecycling.org, and it’s a pretty cool idea. However, because I live on a feeder street in our neighborhood with some low-rent apartments at the end, I’ve found that I can also put things on our curb with a big “FREE!” sign on them and they’re magically gone within hours. I swear, I even got rid of an old powder-blue toilet that way. It’s kind of fun to make bets on how long it’ll take to go – a couple of times I haven’t even gotten something to the curb before someone pulls over. I don’t get the tax writeoff, but half the time I lose those slips, anyway.