Thirty Second Thrift – Take a Quick Look at Donation Items
February 22, 2009 by Katelyn Thomas
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We had a bunch of stuff sitting in our “to donate” pile this week. Before I headed out to drop them off at our local thrift shop, I did a quick check to be sure we really wanted to donate it all. It only took a few seconds to riffle through the pile and it was well worth it. I found:
- Shoes that weren’t in primo condition but had good laces. I took out the laces, folded them neatly and saved them for later. Boys and guys always seem to snap their laces and end up needing new ones.
- Really nice buttons on a shirt with stains. The shirt wasn’t going to end up on the thrift store’s sale rack anyway, so we might as well keep the buttons for the jumper I’m sewing for the little gal.
- Speaking of jumpers – A barely worn jumper in the pile from my working outside the house days that was no longer in style, but had cute fabric. I pulled it out of the pile and will be doing a recon to make a second jumper for the little gal.
- Broken hair clippers. My brother spotted them and took them away. He came back with a whole pile of copper wire for recycling. (And was able to use the switch and plug somehow on his portable blacksmithing forge. Not sure how!)
What I had left in the pile was a stack of items that could truly be useful for someone else but really was not ever going to be used by us in any way, shape, or form. Now, that is a thrifty person’s donation pile.
Have you ever taken a second look at your donation pile and found something you could still use there?
Photo by Sanja Gjenero
I have a pile waiting to go to Goodwill, I will be going through it once more before I send it out…what a great post…thanks for the ideas!!! Hopefully, my trash will be another persons treasure