mercredi 27 décembre 2017

Guide To Use When Making A PA Clothing Donation

By Carol Edwards


If you have more things than you can use in your house, consider decluttering from time to time. This will free up more space in your house. There is no point of throwing away perfectly used clothes. Consider giving them away to a charity. Here is how you should organize yourself when you want to make a PA clothing donation.

Think about which organizations can take the used clothes. You can donate to one organization or to more than one. Deciding which organization to donate to will help you familiarize yourself with what their giving rules are. You will also know what they can and cannot take. Due to logistical reasons, it will be helpful if you find organizations to give to where you are instead of giving stuff away to organizations in far off places.

You then need to decide what you want to give away. Generally, anything that you have not worn in a long time should be given away. Any clothes that you have outgrown or have become too large for you should be given away. Just keep in mind that you need to give things that can still be used not stuff that is damaged beyond repair or too old or stained.

Go through the clothes and classify them, based on where they fall. For instance, put all the children's clothes together and the adult's clothes separately. You can also put the women's clothes separately from the men's clothes. Then you can also separate the winter clothes from the summer clothes. This categorization will make it easier for the center you are taking them to sort them out. Remember that they have to sort through lots of donations every day.

Donate to a legitimate charity, so that you can get tax deductions. This requires that you keep a record of the stuff you are giving away and how much they are worth. The organization can give you more advice on how to go about this issue.

Clean the clothes before you donate them. This will save the organization from having to do so. It will also ensure that the clothes smell clean and fresh. Dirty clothes can be off putting, no matter how good they are. So machine wash or dry clean the items first before you pack them up.

If you are giving away and kind of special clothes, find a specialized organization that will take them. Don't bunch them up with your regular clothes. For instance, if you are giving away prom dresses, or wedding gowns or tuxedos, there are organizations that just deal with these.

Be committed to this activity and set aside time for it. If you have lots of things to go through, be patient through the whole process. It might take you a day or several days to work out everything. That is why you should do it during your free time. This can be when you have leave from work or over the weekends. You can also divide the activities into little chunks and do them in bits




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