Too Much Stuff!
Woman in the Middle | May 25, 2013An organization I belong to had one of those Goodwill fundraisers last weekend. Basically you gather together people’s rummage and donate it to Goodwill and Goodwill returns the favor by paying you for the rummage you collect. Up until last year your group would fill a truck. This year the Goodwlll organization in my area decided to switch to bins. We had to guarantee that we would fill 15 bins. We filled 35. My very small group hefted and toted for 2 1/2 months gathering rummage for this event. On Saturday, when a group of about a dozen volunteers were taking all of the stuff out of the empty storefront where we stored it to the waiting bins, all I could think was that all of that rummage said something about America and it wasn’t saying something good….
The photo below shows just a small fraction of the stuff we had. Yes, by the way, that is a set of golf clubs!
Every time I see the photos of the event, it makes me want to try to clean out my house like a mad woman. I try to lay down until the feeling passes!
Having a margarita also helps feelings like that subside!
A great haul for charity! I make plans for clearing out excess “stuff.” It’s a great feeling to pare down to essentials unless you begin to miss the things that went out of the house.
Charirties love to get stuff but they hate to get junk………………..used clothes are good but not if they are stained and look like something someone washed a car with………………I donate a lot of stuff to charity but the shit stuff goes in the bin………….