Thursday, April 17, 2008
Re-USE those SHOES
Whenever I find a place where you can send something to be reused, I'll post it here. Here's one a co-worker sent me: http://www.letmeplay.com/reuseashoe/program - where athletic shoes go when they die. If they're still wearable, do give them to someone who can wear them, but if they're long past even suitable for taking out the trash, here's where they can go for a new life as Nike Grind.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Things I Gave Away Today - Part 2
Today I gave away:
1. Four crystal beer mugs, to my child's preschool for a silent auction basket. I believe they were a wedding gift, and we have never used them. However, they are pretty, and they will look nice in our class basket, and they are, by some standard, worth a little something, so better there than here.
Have I mentioned yet how little problem I have with regifting? If something has intrinsic value, it shouldn't matter if it wasn't directly purchased with the particular recipient in mind. Until we started asking our kids to decline gifts from friends at their birthday parties, we would typically end up with half a dozen things they weren't interested in. What were my options? A) Giving them back, with a "No Thanks!" note? Or B) Accepting the gifts as gifts of time, time that I wouldn't have to spend buying a birthday present for the next kid? I choose B each and every time, my friends. I might actually consider giving gently used toys as gifts, except I do have a social threshold that isn't quite radical enough, even though if you really think about it, why are we so addicited to the shrink-wrap, the cardboard and blasted twist-ties that take years to undo and remove? This stuff makes the item more valuable? Weird.
2. Two pair of ballet shoes and a pair of ballet tights that thankfully, my friend asked for because her daughter is still doing dance and mine is not. I was so glad she asked, because as often as I try to find new homes for things that we no longer need, I am still a highly scatterbrained person and most times do not make the connection.
Nothing acquired today! Hooray!
1. Four crystal beer mugs, to my child's preschool for a silent auction basket. I believe they were a wedding gift, and we have never used them. However, they are pretty, and they will look nice in our class basket, and they are, by some standard, worth a little something, so better there than here.
Have I mentioned yet how little problem I have with regifting? If something has intrinsic value, it shouldn't matter if it wasn't directly purchased with the particular recipient in mind. Until we started asking our kids to decline gifts from friends at their birthday parties, we would typically end up with half a dozen things they weren't interested in. What were my options? A) Giving them back, with a "No Thanks!" note? Or B) Accepting the gifts as gifts of time, time that I wouldn't have to spend buying a birthday present for the next kid? I choose B each and every time, my friends. I might actually consider giving gently used toys as gifts, except I do have a social threshold that isn't quite radical enough, even though if you really think about it, why are we so addicited to the shrink-wrap, the cardboard and blasted twist-ties that take years to undo and remove? This stuff makes the item more valuable? Weird.
2. Two pair of ballet shoes and a pair of ballet tights that thankfully, my friend asked for because her daughter is still doing dance and mine is not. I was so glad she asked, because as often as I try to find new homes for things that we no longer need, I am still a highly scatterbrained person and most times do not make the connection.
Nothing acquired today! Hooray!
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