If you or your parents live in a community with a locally-run, locally-benefitting charity that accepts physical donations (clothes, furniture, etc.) and sells locally at affordable prices and/or provides for those in need, now is the time to start donating everything you don't need anymore.
Stuff does your neighbors no good if you leave it in your closet for years until you (or your heirs) finally pass it on.
Climate crises are getting worse. Share your resources now. #Discardia #MutualAid
This kind of donating is an entry point for becoming more connected to your community. It is #MutualAid with the training wheels on.
We the comfortable have spent a lot of years learning how to do virtual social networks. Time, past time, to learn how to do it with our physical stuff and surroundings.
The first step is to convert your closets' accumulation of now-disinterested hoarding into utility and delight for others.
7 bags of clothes to one local charity near my dad's place this morning. The car is completely packed full of stuff for dropping off at the other local one tomorrow morning.
Sad to be packing things to give that could have been shared a decade sooner.
Joyous to be sharing now.
@metagrrrl No such charity in my town. (We used to have a great thrift store, but no more.)
But I run our local freecycle group, which is another way to get things to people who need them.
Dinah 🕊🇺🇦
Jeri Dansky