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Holiday Items:
Chanuka(Hanukkah?), Christmas, Kwanza: tablecloths, artificial Christmas trees, Menora's, scented candles, ornaments, all sorts of decorations, holiday music and movies, stocking stuffers, old toys and games
New Year's Items: party decorations, party favors, noise makers, wine glasses
Halloween Items: Cauldron's, window decorations, spider webs, old costumes kids have outgrown, wigs, makeup, blacklights, eerie music
Thanksgiving Decor: Turkey platters and cooking pots/pans, serving items,
Easter: Baskets, stuffed bunnies, easter dresses, ribbons, craft items,
BACK TO SCHOOL Late July, Early August. Freshmen are getting ready to go off to their first dorm room and the stuff you started out housekeeping with but recently replaced is just right for their needs. Go through the garage and the spare bedroom and see if you can find some dorm basics for a lucky freshman.
CRAFT SUPPLIES Early to mid summer. Many kids are off to vacation bible school or summer school where they do a lot of crafts. Now may be the time to sort through all those unfinished projects with a realistic eye. Are you really going to finish knitting that stocking for Uncle Henry who died last winter?
GARDENING AND SUPPLIES SPRING, FALL, CHANGE OF SEASONS Spring is an ideal time to ask your members for gardening items of any type. A lot of us have yard art, old hoses, planters, gardening gloves, tools such as rakes and hoes, and even plants and topsoil that we don't need or acquired too much of.
TOY RECYCLING Before Christmas or birthdays. If your kids are like mine, our house is bursting with toys. A lot have barely been played with. Why not sort through the old ones so you can make room for the new ones, and donate the slightly used ones to shelters for battered women? Those kids often leave their homes with only the clothes on their back, and they would love your toys.
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Freecycle(TM) is about keeping useful things out of a land fill. So keeping that in mind, here is a short list of things I can think of off the top of my head. (If I had longer I could think of more - I'm sure you could too)
- Baby food jars - 101 uses from making votive candle holders to keeping nails, nuts and bolts or other small objects together
- Plastic mesh bags that produce and other small items are packaged in. I use them on the outflow of my washer to keep the lint from clogging the drain tub pipes. Depending on the type can also be use to make scrubbers - like the ones you buy for Teflon pans and to lather body wash with.
- Cardboard boxes - Ever try to find boxes for moving or storage? I can remember being in P&C in Horseheads (before they moved to Lake Road - yeah that long ago) and boxes were at the front of the store, free for the taking. Now they are all crushed for recycling.
- Old socks, stockings and pantie hose. Camping, we use to put a bar of soap in an old Knee-high and hang on the spigot for washing hands. They can also be filled with potpourri for sachets to make your clothes smell good while in storage.
- Old sweaters can be un-raveled to re-knit into something 'new'
- The pocket off of old jeans can be sewn together to make a small
purse. Or the jeans can be used to make rag rugs.
Ok, my brain is tired and I'm starting to reach. But you get the idea. And I'm sure you can think of other things that are still 'good' and can be offered on Freecycle.
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