Selling all/a lot of your possessions - classic or dud?

RBDS Rubbish Boys Disposal Service Inc. is a Canadian franchised residential and commercial junk removal company operating in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

― brimstead, Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:00 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was wondering how I'd never seen this company name referenced in the form of a thousand identikit sassy memes and it seems to be because they brand themselves as 1-800-GOT-JUNK

Don’t donate to or buy from Salvation Army

Why not?

several generals wanted for war crimes

Don’t donate to or buy from Salvation Army

Why not?

I'm personally inclined to support social change organisations over religious charities anyway, but the Salvation Army has a record of stuff like this

This may be a C-plus if it's voluntary but it's a solid D-minus when it's not.

my colleague told me she doesn't donate to salvation army and i was wondering why

i mean i'm not partial to it so i can skip it

offerup seems to be working for now

Definitely finding that selling things is almost always too much trouble. I value my time pretty highly (so does my employer), so it gets increasingly hard to justify hours and hours of things like this -

photograph, describe, price, package and ship

- or in-person Craigslisty stuff where I have to email back and forth three times to find an appropriate time for someone to "come look at it and decide whether I want to buy it."

Local library and Goodwill have taken most CDs/DVDs/books/clothes. Nextdoor has a "curb alert" tradition, which is pretty close to ideal - if no one wants it, off it goes. We don't get a lot of landfill guilt because our town does a waste-to-energy thing.

A rich 'burb will have Stuff Glut. Donations to the third world can tend to disadvantage local businesspeople. I'd like to find a genuinely needy day care or preschool once my children outgrow toys and kid books, because a lot of that shit is barely touched nowadays.