Survey #249—Full Response from C
| Please share your suggestions for unconventional places to take donated items (for example, a local florist’s shop for empty flower vases). If you mention a specific business or organization, please include your city, state, province, region, and/or country in your answer. | Unconventional 1: Empty, re-usable Glass jars: to a charity that makes soups and meals for the homeless. Unconventional 2: saving the plastic caps of plastic bottles and donating these to an artist who uses them to melt the plastic and makes whimsy objects with them Unconventional 3:( perhaps only for Europe?) Giving the empty paper egg cartons to market stands that sell individual eggs , alternatively to the Easter market stand which sell decorated eggs. Unconventional 4: donating children's toys and books -in good condition- to an organisation that distributes these to new asylum seekers with children Unconventional 5:(perhaps only in Europe?) used cooking oil to recycling center= used to make bio fuel. |
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| Describe an activity or interest for which you acquire far more supplies or materials than you tend to use over a reasonable period of time. | hand-knit wool socks or cotton socks. I have enough but I love getting these from my friends who knit. hand-made soap, same as above, but I store the extra supply among my clothes to keep them smelling of soap. home made marmelades, same as above, we have more than enough, but it is such a joy to receive them as gifts. Eventually these do get consumed. |
| Here’s your chance to ask Gayle and Ed any question you’re curious about. It need not be related to this survey’s topic(s). If we think that your question—and our answer—might be useful or instructive to The Clutter Fairy Weekly audience, we’ll share them in an upcoming episode. | Plants, indoor or outdoor. when is it too much? How to best decide. |
| Future topics | emergency preparedness in times of economic crisis? |
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