Comments on: Clothing Donations

By: bradykp

bradykp — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:05:37 +0000

PaulusHookLady wrote:

You can freecycle them:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle-hudsoncounty-nj/

The bins at Bed,Bath,and Beyond are not charities. They are for profit. Do not use them.

you sure? it says goodwill on them i thought. but regardless, i’ve worked on “non-for-profit” audit clients, and they aren’t all they are cracked up to be either.

By: bradykp

bradykp — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:53:50 +0000

elainetyger wrote:

God bless you all for going about the proper donation methods. I find it too much effort.

Socks/stockings/unmentionables go in the trash. Anything else — if it has stains, it gets cut up for cleaning rags. Anything without stains goes out over the gate. Even old shoes put out on a sunny day will disappear within 24 hours.

i dont do this because of an experience i had over by the goodwill bins. two ladies approached us as we were unloading our car and asked us if they could have the clothes instead of us putting them in the bins. they looked fairly decent, so I’m pretty convinced they are just trying to collect the clothes to sell them at a flea market or consignment. not my intent. i always drop them off at goodwill just to make sure they end up in the right hands at the end.

there’s a goodwill bin on observer, right by where you leave town to go to the 78/1&9….at that little mechanic’s place before the railroad bridge

By: elainetyger

elainetyger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:40:21 +0000

God bless you all for going about the proper donation methods. I find it too much effort.

Socks/stockings/unmentionables go in the trash. Anything else — if it has stains, it gets cut up for cleaning rags. Anything without stains goes out over the gate. Even old shoes put out on a sunny day will disappear within 24 hours.

By: Tama Murden

Tama Murden — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:15:45 +0000

Re 25.: There are, or used to be, charities that would access that by-the-pound deal, for clothes too worn for re-distribution. Not sure now. Perhaps a call to the Salvation Army or Goodwill might clarify? Or some on-line resource?

By: SFH

SFH — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:40:52 +0000

I have a question regarding clothing donations…when I sort through old clothing, I will throw out anything that is very worn and threadbare. However, a while back I read an article that said you should still donate very worn clothing. The rationale for that was that charities will sell very worn clothing to rag dealers. It seems that charities get paid by the pound for very worn items. Does anybody know if this is true or do most charities just throw away threadbare items?

By: CantondeHobo

CantondeHobo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:41:41 +0000

thanks Tama, Brady, Paulus & Boston for all of the suggestions- I appreciate it!

By: boston1

boston1 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:41:28 +0000

If you have over six bags of clothing, the salvation army will come and pick it up. I do it almost every year.

By: PaulusHookLady

PaulusHookLady — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:35 +0000

You can freecycle them:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle-hudsoncounty-nj/

The bins at Bed,Bath,and Beyond are not charities. They are for profit. Do not use them.

By: bradykp

bradykp — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:12:04 +0000

CantondeHobo wrote:

Does anyone have any insight into where I can donate my clothing? I’m (sadly!) moving out of Hoboken and I have a few bags of women’s clothing to give away. A pick-up service would be best as I don’t have a car and can’t carry these ridiculously heavy bags too far…thanks!

There are bins for goodwill over by Bed, Bath, and Beyond in Jersey City. There’s housing works around 14th street in the city. There’s Salvation Army. There’s local churches.

By: Tama Murden

Tama Murden — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:11:04 +0000

Re 19.: If you can swing the cab fare, Thurs.-Sat., noon-4:30, you can drop off at the Hospital Thrift Shop, 6th & Garden Sts.

There’s also Dress for Success, in JC, which offers business clothes for women moving from welfare to work. Also accepts men’s clothes.