So, what to do with the leftovers from the decluttering rummage pot-luck party…
The clothes and shoes are easy. I’ll bag them up and put them in a charity clothes bin.
The rest of the leftovers are books (including loads about digital design), CD-Roms (mostly educational), a DVD, a few videos and a couple of CDs, plus some computer peripherals.
Oh and a plastic dragon and a Postman Pat badge.
I listed all these items on Freecycle /Freegle this evening, individually naming each of them.
I’m getting some fabulous replies.
A student wants a couple of the digital design books to help with her course.
A teacher wants the rest of the digital design books, plus a few others for the library at her school.
Another teacher wants the CD-Roms for her school.
Someone wants the computer peripherals for the club rooms of a residents’ association.
And the guy who fixed my hairdyer wants a video, a CD-Rom and a book.
How fab is that? I thought this stuff would be hard to shift.
Now I’m delighted that I devoted half an hour to typing out the name of each item. Things are more likely to get used if they go to people who request specific ones, rather than as a job lot to a charity shop.
I can’t tell you how much it pleases my decluttering low impact heart to pass individually requested items on to people. I’m looking forward to seeing the items go out of the door tomorrow, and the smiles on the collectors’ faces.
