Comments on: Charities With Local Pickup (List) for Goods Donations as You Clean House http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/general/charities-local-pickup-list-goods-donations/ Home improvement and related topics from four evening and weekend warriors striving for the perfect homes... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ET @ Titus2:3-5 http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/general/charities-local-pickup-list-goods-donations/#comment-2041 ET @ Titus2:3-5 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:47:50 +0000 http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/?p=509#comment-2041 In Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association will also do pick-up. :) In Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association will also do pick-up. :)

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/general/charities-local-pickup-list-goods-donations/#comment-1982 Jennifer Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:16:49 +0000 http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/?p=509#comment-1982 Goodpoint about not donating trash... although, it IS to donate ripped and torn clothing to many of those places as they sell those and outdated/unsellable clothes to fiber recyclers. Also, try not to donate computers/printers/etc... as they don't even test them for working. They just ship them off to China to be recycled for a little profit... http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/perils-of-electronic.html It would be better to sell the computer for $5 or $10 and donate the money to the charity or give it away to someone who can use it. There are people who don't have any computer, and a 10 year old computer good only for word processing can make a big difference in a child's ability to do his homework (since much of it is required to be typed now). A better place of getting rid of computers/printers AND broken or worn items is craigslist or freecycle... someone wants to fix up your broken item. I give everything a change there... it's amazing what people want. Gives something a new use, and it keeps it out of the landfill. The above aren't charities, of course... I do try to periodically go through my house for things I don't need... I tend to freecycle them or donate them to the Habitat Restore in my area. Goodpoint about not donating trash… although, it IS to donate ripped and torn clothing to many of those places as they sell those and outdated/unsellable clothes to fiber recyclers.

Also, try not to donate computers/printers/etc… as they don’t even test them for working. They just ship them off to China to be recycled for a little profit… http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/perils-of-electronic.html

It would be better to sell the computer for $5 or $10 and donate the money to the charity or give it away to someone who can use it. There are people who don’t have any computer, and a 10 year old computer good only for word processing can make a big difference in a child’s ability to do his homework (since much of it is required to be typed now).

A better place of getting rid of computers/printers AND broken or worn items is craigslist or freecycle… someone wants to fix up your broken item. I give everything a change there… it’s amazing what people want. Gives something a new use, and it keeps it out of the landfill. The above aren’t charities, of course…

I do try to periodically go through my house for things I don’t need… I tend to freecycle them or donate them to the Habitat Restore in my area.

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