What did you donate this week?

[wookin]

126 boxes of Spaghetti
103 Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage & Gravy
12 Frank's Hot Sauce (the big bottle)
8 Bush's Grillin Beans
61 Protein Bars (various brands)
2 hours of my time

[TheBargainBabe]

Originally Posted by MamaBird06 I haven't started donating yet, but i am wondering at what point do you say you have enough of something in your stockpile and start donating? I would really like to have a nice amount of something to donate ie at least 1 full box, so i haven't donated yet. I have been giving some things to family members, but i know that they may need the stuff, esp. otc meds as i am not sure if i could donate these things or not. I really am not stockpiling food, with our eating habits it is just not possible to stockpile much as we eat a lot of produce and fresh foods. So i don't see me having much to donate in that area at all.

Well I don't have much of a stockpile either. Right now I have 3 toothpastes, 3 body washes, and 2 toothbrushes. lol
But for donating to charity...like this week the Hamburger Helper is on sale for $1 at Marsh. I had a $1/2 coupon so I bought 2 boxes and just paid a buck.
So I try to get stuff on a good sale and donate that.

[susuzpandamonium]

Originally Posted by Clipper I do that too. It always amuses me that they are so happy to get what is esssentially my trash. I have a heap of Sunday papers in my car to bring to them this weekend. Usually I buy the paper on the way there and can get rid of them quickly, but I didn't thrift last week.

I always donate my newspapers to my DD's school Art department. They love them because they are all nice and straight as I only take the Q's out. I take my old grocery bags to a local thrift store that benefits the Peace at Home Shelter (Domestic Violence) Anytime I have extras from my stockpile I take them to the thrift store and they make sure to get them to the safe house.

[susuzpandamonium]

Originally Posted by chitownmelli We donated 5 bags of the healthy life catfood last week, and will donate another 5 bags this week. On Thursday the 26th there will be a food drive at Summerfest here in Milwaukee, and we will donate a few bags - we normally do cereal, boxed and canned goods, and will most likely be what we donate this year. Now I wonder who would take personal items around here - I don't know of a place to donate those to yet, other than family of coarse, but I think they are all stocked on toothpaste and whatnot lol!

Homeless Shelter, Peace at Home Shelter, Children's Emergency Shelter, Senior Adult Centers all take personal items. I also take them to our food bank and Meals on Wheels they love to get personal care items. Don't forget the troops too! Our area has drives all of the time to send items to the troops.

[chitownmelli]

Oh what wonderful ideas! I knew you guys would know! Thanks so much, I always have a few items here and there that I could share, and I am really looking forward to it! I'll start looking up some of those types of places!

[FantasyIsland]

Don't forget senior centers. We forget that seniors can't get around as well as us youngsters - shopping is a big deal to many. So donations of HBA, especially lotions for dry skin, as well as food and glucose monitors.

[Clipper]

I brought 14 cans of Friskies cat food to the local municipal animal shelter.

They wouldn't let me see the kitties as it was after hours. *sigh* Just as well or I'd have to take those cans back home with me to feed my new cat.


Oh, and I also gave the newspapers I bought today for coupons to the thrift stores I visited. They need them to wrap their breakable items.

[hartstopper]

I donated $300 worth of stuff this week! Lots of cereal, boxed goods, and bbq sauces and condiments!!

[chitownmelli]

We gave our newspapers to Goodwill, and we did that food drive at Summerfest, we gave them a few bags of food :)

[Maura]

I brought 44 lbs of grocery items and toiletries to the local homeless shelter/food bank this week! That makes 180 lbs donated since I started coupoining and stockpiling about a month ago.