Spring Clearing Week 2021: Clothing
This week is APDO’s Spring Clearing Week 2021.
This year’s theme is ‘Making Clutter Count’. It’s all about doing something positive with unwanted items rather than just throwing them out, i.e. making them ‘count’ by donating, giving to someone in need, recycling etc. As well as the benefits of creating more space, this will hopefully give you an extra incentive to declutter as you’ll be doing good for the planet, your community and worthwhile causes at the same time
I will be taking a look each day this week at what you can do with your unwanted items during lockdown once you have decluttered and organised your home.
Monday’s category is:
Photo by Sarah Brown on Unsplash
Donating clothes:
Save The Children have donation bags that you can order on-line. Fill them up with your unwanted clothing and drop it off for free at your local DPD shop.
Traid will collect bags of unwanted clothing from your doorstep. They will be taking bookings for free collections from the 1st April 2021, so start filling up your bags now!
https://www.traid.org.uk/clothes-donations/book-a-collection/
ICollectClothes is accepting on-line bookings for free collections of clothing from our doorstep. You can also choose which charity you want to donate to.
https://www.icollectclothes.co.uk/donation-info
Selling clothes:
If you fancy making a bit of cash from your unwanted clothes try these organisations…
ReThread will sell your high quality clothes for you and will give you back a percentage of the money made from the sale. Easy peasy. Order a bag or two from their website which will be posted to you. Fill it up with your items (check first which items they accept) and take your bag for free to a Collect Plus point.
Vinted sells pre-loved clothes online
Suzie Hall at Home sells a range of items from clothes to furniture
https://www.suziehallathome.co.uk
Thrift+ will collect, list and sell your clothes on-line for you. The proceeds get split evenly between you and your chosen charity.
Please remember when donating or selling clothes that they should be in a ‘wearable’ condition. If you wouldn’t wear it then the chances are someone else won’t either. If you have items that are beyond saving then your local supermarkets will have recycling bins for ‘rag’, or you can hold on to them and take them to your local charity shop when they open - many of them will recycle them for you.
