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Originally Posted by greta
I give old towels, blankets, and sheets to local animal shelters, they can really use them year round.
I'm about to go through my four sets of bookshelves and purge them to get them down to 3. I plan on having an old board buddy look through them next weekend to see what she wants.
Household items - our local women's shelter loves getting stuff like this - they really need it for women who are starting over with nothing. I like giving stuff to them, because someone in need is truly getting it, vice just giving it to a charity that sells it.
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Greta, that's a great idea!
I try to give my magazines away also or take to the Library. Sometimes they like to get copys so they have extras of the popular ones.
I saw a clever idea with books where people find the attractive ones, in good shape and then drill a hole through each of them, put a lamp appliance through the center and it makes a nice lamp.
Or you can use a book for a secret hideaway buy hollowing out the center of the pages and put your valuables in there. Place on a shelf amidst other books. I think the directions I saw showed that you have to glue all the pages together before ou can hollow out the center though.
A dear friend of mine went to the Goodwill and other places like that and bought up a bunch of wool coats and skirts. Then she cut bias strips from them and wove them into a huge rug. It was fabulous till her cat decided to add his own scent to it!
Tootsie