Rethreaded (website rethreaded.com) is a charity based in Jacksonville FL that uses donated t-shirts to make other things out of for resale.
The charity helps women and girls who have been victims of human trafficking.
@shellfell - We re-homed a lot of gently-loved stuffed animals about two years ago through a local title-1 public elementary school that runs âholiday shopsâ for the kids in the school. They take all kinds of donations of gently-loved toys/household goods/etc. The students can âshopâ for gifts for their family members before major holidays such as Christmas, Motherâs Day, etc.
Some of our local thrift shops accept stuffed animals as well. You should check with them too.
Thanks for the suggestions. I wasnât sure how people would feel about getting used stuffed animals, even though theyâre in good condition. I certainly wouldnât donate the ratty looking, or should I say very well loved, ones.
shellfellâthese days everyone seems to want ânew toysâ for everything. And Iâm the one harboring the ânot new but not even gently used but pretty much never usedâ toys.
Somebody will love them.
Not sure if this counts for this thread but we are now down to 2 cars. H sold our SUV yesterday as we no longer need a third vehicle.
Yes, thatâs definitely decluttering and space making PLUS money saving, @fallgirl!
Got rid of a car! Thatâs great!
Iâm getting rid of one but only replacing. So thatâs upgrading! Totally different!
Want to replace carpets in whole house. So gotta move stuff, BIG time. Throw stuff out (it needs to go!).
Doing good job on the global scale house-wise but itâs tough.
Suggestions? Does a whole room need to be cleared to replace carpet? Part of the room?
Help!
Replacing carpets is major job. In bedroom, I had to move all shoes, which meant I got rid of a third of them. Even harder doing family room, as I have 5 big bookcases. Again, I got rid of lots of fiction. I didnât do the whole house at once. The people laying wood floors offered to do my home office with extra flooring for $300. They offered to move everything, but I was so exhausted from the rest, I didnât do it. Big regret.
Good luck, Gouf.
If someone said âIâll move itâ I would be SO there!
Itâs good in some waysâŠbut right now Iâm moving stuff from here âŠto thereâŠto thereâŠthe pile does get smaller.
Whittling it all down as I decide to give stuff up,
But gotta get it done. Soon.
Advice?
About 20+ years ago we had all the wall to wall carpeting replaced in our upstairs. It was tantamount to moving. IIRC, they were able to move all the stuff into one or two rooms upstairs while they carpeted the other rooms, and then move things around. But itâs as big a job as having all the floors sanded and sealed.
I have been thinking about getting Two Men and a Truck to move furniture so that we can either replace carpet or get hardwood floors installed where we donât have them (downstairs first). I think they would do that?
Are you just wanting to hire them to move the furniture from one spot to another in your house? Or take it away and bring it back? We have had PODs in our driveway and rented freight containers for storage in the country.
We used Two Men and a Truck for a short distance move and they broke the legs off several antique pieces. It was pretty inexcusable. After the first piece, I said âyou canât rock those pieces like that. The legs will break offâ They kept telling me they were experts. So please check out reviews for your local movers.
Sometimes college sports teams advertise to do yardwork as fundraising and I bet they would do moving for you.
We have sometimes hired students we know to do that sort of thing.
Donât the flooring installers move furniture for you as part of their service? I know our painters did.
^^The commercials for Empire carpet show them moving and replacing the furniture for you.
After a really (REALLY) lazy weekend accomplishing absolutely nothing, I decided to clear out a huge drawer in the hallway that is full of stuff we never use. Started off looking at things to see if they were worth donating then decided to just shove it all in a trash bag (the tax break would be nice but the stuff I put in bags to donate last year and the year before is still in bags in the huge junk filled den - my husbands domain that I just walkthrough on the way to the garage and stare straight ahead at the door to save my sanity!). One bag full of socks, yellowed t-shirts and old underwear and hankies and some assorted sheets and things im not sure what to call ( none used in many years) is in the bin.
Next drawer down was craft stuff I havenât used in years. Probably some is stuff someone would use. But another bag is in the bin.
So 11/2 empty drawers (they are really large drawers). Iâm exhausted and need a drink.
@swimcatsmom Go clean out the liquor cabinet now. 
Like @swimcatsmom, lazy weekend until today. I cleaned out two huge dresser drawers. Funny how after several years, one day, you can just open the drawer, peer in, and think âHuh! I donât need any of this!â Half was trash and half bagged to donate.
Do we have a thread about odd things in your odds-n-ends drawer? Mine had small binoculars, a disco ball, a Sony Walkman, an air pump for blowing up balloons, a topsy tail, spare contacts, a can of pledge, and a two year old letter from D, among other things.
@doschicos - working on it
@psychmom - yes, I have a lot of drawers (& closets ⊠rooms âŠgarage ) like that. I need to get more ruthless.
I cleaned out a kitchen drawer last year and found 15 cheap cork screws.
Go on vacation, buy a bottle of wine, need to buy a cork screw to open it, swear you will pack a corkscrew next time, never do, aaaannnd repeatâŠ