84 - Where to Donate Items You No Longer Want or Need

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

My goal as a professional organizer is to help people get rid of the stuff they don't want so they can breathe and enjoy the stuff they choose to keep.

Honestly, the quickest and easiest way to do this has been to donate everything that can be donated at Goodwill and trash the rest.

However, as I have matured as an organizer and grown my Cincinnati team, I have started to see how the items you may no longer want or need will fit a need somewhere else in the community. As our team had moved in to organizing and cleaning out family homes for sale it has become more apparent that we should and could be sharing these treasures for good.

So, this fall our team set to work and researched who really wanted and needed the stuff our clients no longer used. I am so sad I had not taken the time to do this earlier. :( The items you and I no longer like or need -really do fit a need someone else in the community has.

This list is specific for Cincinnati, but it will get you thinking outside of the box no matter where you live. This list will continue to be updated and refined. Feel free to leave a comment or contact me with more current information and additional donation locations I have not found.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional
0:07.1	organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home
0:11.8	organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.
0:17.0	So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.
0:21.0	Can you believe that we are three weeks into the new year?
0:26.0	Me either.
0:27.0	Well, so far this year on the Organized 365 podcast, we've talked about where to start organizing the new idea
0:36.1	I have about the Friday box which is really the work equivalent of the home-based
0:40.9	Sunday basket.
0:42.8	And last week I shared with you an emergency
0:45.8	we had in our family, how we got through it,
0:48.2	and how we now safely store our medicine.
0:51.0	And today, I want to kind of give a state of the union, I guess.
0:55.0	More like some of the things that I have left over from 2015 to follow up with you and a new revelation I have about where to donate the things
1:05.2	that we no longer want and need. So today I'm going to talk about the
1:09.5	mastermind communities, those have launched and people are in them. I want to tell you how it's going
1:13.7	how I've changed it and how I think that could help you and I'm going to give you an
1:18.6	update on the changes I've been making on the blog navigation. I keep tweaking it to see if it's easier for you to navigate.
1:26.4	I think I finally hit on the right combination. I also have two new regular blog posts each week I want to talk to you about.
1:34.6	And then finally, where to donate all this stuff that you don't want.
1:38.4	So let's start by the update on the mastermind communities. Last fall, I realized that as a professional organizer,
1:46.0	when I go out and organize people,
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