No! No! No! Not Goodwill. Not since they told me outright that they didn’t want anything that needed to be repaired. Their original intention was to train disadvantaged people in a trade by repairing donated items. I guess that’s gone out the window now.
Like Prescott, I donate to Salvation Army. Part of what they sell goes to their Adult Rehabilitation Centers which daily save the lives of addicts and alcoholics. Their “overhead” costs are the lowest of any charity out there, so more of what they get goes to actually help people.
Value Village gets our cast-offs. I don’t think of it as charity, more like a way to recycle things we don’t want anymore and aren’t worth flogging on eBay.
Now where I live it is hard to donate stuff any longer. I used to go to a Salvation Army location to drop off as it was the convenient of the various organizations. Then they closed. I tried to drop off what I had at a Savers (big brothers, big sisters) but that had shut down also. So I schlepped half an hour to Goodwill and continued to bring items there for some years. Then they closed and I found another location – schlepped there. October 2018 husband was extremely unwell and I did not get to make a trip there, by the time he recovered it was December and I took the items to Goodwill – that location closed also. Now the stuff just piles up – I used to bring small amounts every month, not enough to ask them to pick up and I cannot leave the items outside for them and we are not always home, so it just sits here.
Prescott_Philosopher over 4 years ago
As Goodwill is a profit making, private business, we donate to Salvation Army.
Auntie Socialist over 4 years ago
I think Goodwill has a designated section for that now
Jan C over 4 years ago
No! No! No! Not Goodwill. Not since they told me outright that they didn’t want anything that needed to be repaired. Their original intention was to train disadvantaged people in a trade by repairing donated items. I guess that’s gone out the window now.
Like Prescott, I donate to Salvation Army. Part of what they sell goes to their Adult Rehabilitation Centers which daily save the lives of addicts and alcoholics. Their “overhead” costs are the lowest of any charity out there, so more of what they get goes to actually help people.
j.l.farmer over 4 years ago
why didn’t Ben return the items and get his money back.
M2MM over 4 years ago
Value Village gets our cast-offs. I don’t think of it as charity, more like a way to recycle things we don’t want anymore and aren’t worth flogging on eBay.
pbr50138 over 4 years ago
Liv should say…I’m TAKING the boxes over to Goodwill. Bring is coming to you. Taking is going away from you. You being Ben.
mafastore over 4 years ago
Now where I live it is hard to donate stuff any longer. I used to go to a Salvation Army location to drop off as it was the convenient of the various organizations. Then they closed. I tried to drop off what I had at a Savers (big brothers, big sisters) but that had shut down also. So I schlepped half an hour to Goodwill and continued to bring items there for some years. Then they closed and I found another location – schlepped there. October 2018 husband was extremely unwell and I did not get to make a trip there, by the time he recovered it was December and I took the items to Goodwill – that location closed also. Now the stuff just piles up – I used to bring small amounts every month, not enough to ask them to pick up and I cannot leave the items outside for them and we are not always home, so it just sits here.