Oh this sounds cool! I've never heard of it before.
I'm going through stuff to see if I have any spare toys I can donate to Toys 4 Tots or a local women & children homeless shelter. So far I have a little pile of stuff. Hopefully I can find more toys!
What other programs do you guys donate through? I have a lot of clothes that are too small and I never know what the best place is to take them. I live near a Savers, a Goodwill, Salvation Army and Value Village.
You could find a local homeless shelter. I always donate to shelters now because I'd rather my old stuff be used instead of sold for someone else's profit. The one I usually go to (women & children shelter) will accept pretty much anything.
What other programs do you guys donate through? I have a lot of clothes that are too small and I never know what the best place is to take them. I live near a Savers, a Goodwill, Salvation Army and Value Village.
You could find a local homeless shelter. I always donate to shelters now because I'd rather my old stuff be used instead of sold for someone else's profit. The one I usually go to (women & children shelter) will accept pretty much anything.
This is a good idea, I usually just take stuff to Goodwill but a shelter would be better. We just dropped off our shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child tonight. They told us that next year candy and toothpaste will not be allowed. We usually put toothpaste in, but we didn't this year. We did put candy in. Should have taken pics. We do one for a boy and one for a girl- ages 10-14.
Our boxes had
-Lisa frank & monkey notebooks, sketch pads
-pens, pencils, markers
-ghostbuster erasers
-ball
-koosh ball
-plastic light up angel ornament
-superman light
-book bag
-journal
-soccer ball and pump
-rainbow plush dog
-socks
-stickers
-some sort of pet blind bag
-sour patch kids and sour gummy worms
-hello kitty plush keychain
-pencil sharpeners
-Star Wars blind bag
-MLP eraser
-barrettes
Prolly stuff I'm forgetting
I did take this pic, so I could see what all I needed to buy still for the girl's box. I had extra stuff that I'm saving for next year.
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I always do a girl, I just love shopping for girl stuff. I didn't think food was allowed at all so I didn't add any. I was iffy with leaving the toothpaste but good to know it's ok this year. I feel silly sending a toothbrush without toothpaste.
If I have the funds I buy dog and cat food for the Humane Society too.
This was the second year we did them. Since we knew we were going to be packing some this year, we were able to pick up things throughout the year (last year we only had a few weeks to plan). We did three boxes with coloring pages, colored pencils, regular pencils with extra erasers (animal shapes :)), pencil sharpeners, glue sticks, notebooks, solar calculators, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, socks, dolls, stuffed animals, light-up balls, puzzles, mini purses, hair bows, bracelets, and pop beads. We were packing them with a group of other ladies and let them use some of our extra items such as kaleidoscopes and jump ropes and we've already got several items set aside for next year.
What other programs do you guys donate through? I have a lot of clothes that are too small and I never know what the best place is to take them. I live near a Savers, a Goodwill, Salvation Army and Value Village.
You could find a local homeless shelter. I always donate to shelters now because I'd rather my old stuff be used instead of sold for someone else's profit. The one I usually go to (women & children shelter) will accept pretty much anything.
We donate clothing to the women's shelter here. They also take sheets plus toys and books for children. The place that collects the items for them also collects for the homeless shelter so men's clothing goes there too. My mom and I belong to the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) so most everything else we donate ends up going through one of their programs to help soldiers and veterans or into the yard sale we help run for them.