Find Stuff at Home to Donate to a Charity – Feel Better about Yourself
When you clean out your closets and the clutter in your house, you can typically dispose of this stuff in among two ways. You could find somewhere to sell the stuff – eBay, a consignment store or some such thing and make a trifle bit of cash that could come in convenient. Instead, as an alternative, you could donate anything you find to charity. A place like Goodwill, for example. Most people would be happy to do this sort of thing; except that when they look around their home, they cannot imagine what they could have that a charity could possibly be happy to have. Maybe the following list could help.
Old computers, Whether they’re in working condition or not, happen to make the great contribution to charity. Goodwill, for example, has an agreement with Dell. Donate your computer, whatever condition and may be in, and they pass it on to Dell Reconnect to recycle it free of charge. And for all computers that they process, they receive a contribution. Computers aren’t the only kind of thing that you can donate either. Most people have been through numerous model iterations with their cell phones. Rummage around at the back of a drawer or elsewhere, and anybody is likely to find a half-dozen cell phone that brings back lots of old memories. A lot of phone stores have dropped boxes where you can give your photos away for good cause; Verizon Wireless HopeLine (there’s a nice play on words!) knows what to do with your phones, for instance: they give them to victims of domestic violence so that they can use these phones in an emergency.
When you are trying to donate to a charity, there is a great deal you can do with clothing.
That pair of jeans you keep hoping you will suit into one day, that funky little jacket with the bum zipper that were that you hope to get around to fix, and that pair of pants that somehow does not seem to go with anything that you love – all of these will find a great new home with the poor who really need them. All you need to do is go to a church or other house of worship that has a thrift store, that will accept your donations of clothing. If you own something that is really good to wear in a professional setting but that somehow just is not of any use to you, try donating to the Career Wardrobe. They try to help people on welfare who want to move into a steady life by getting a job.
And eventually, there is a variety of other stuff you may find around the house that you could donate to a charity also – books and stuff from around the kitchen spring to mind. Your local library and even organizations like GoodWill hold book sales to raise funds for charity. Old kitchen appliances and additional household appliances that we don’t use after having received them as gifts are great candidates for the Salvation Army. This is a good part of what helps the country move forward: those who are able helping those who are unable.
