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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
― papa poutine (∞), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link