There's a local thrift store, called Value Village, that runs a a fundraiser in the form of of a bulk donations drive. You can get paid for bulk donations if you're a 501(c)3 group, which we are. As you've probably guessed, we did this. We collected donations from around our neighborhood and stored them in Benedict's and my garage until the drop off day. When the drop off day rolled around, we rented a moving truck and filled it with the donations in the garage. The night before the drop off, a near by school had had also had a fundraiser that included a white elephant sale. The woman who ran the fundraiser said we could have all the things that weren't sold. After we had loaded the donations from the garage, we drove to the school and picked up all the leftovers from the white elephant sale. We ended up filling up the moving truck almost entirely. All in all we had about 2600 pounds of donations. There was three classes of donations, soft goods (clothes, linens, anything made of cloth really), household goods (kitchen utensils, hard toys, board games, etc), and books (does this really need an explanation?). We ended up making about $250 dollars. So thank you, Value Village!
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