Laundry Help
From: Julie
Hi Tawra!
I love your site! I have been helped tremendously
with your down-to-earth advice.
I wanted to ask your advice. I have a really hard
time keeping up with laundry and I'm so
embarrassed by the "mounds" that I have in my
laundry room. To be honest, there are a lot of
clothes that my family can no longer wear, and I
need to get rid of them. I was wondering, after
washing them, do you think that I should try to
have a yard sale to earn extra money, or should I
just bag them up and give the ones that look good
to Goodwill? Part of me really thinks that I just
need to get rid of all that clutter by giving the
clothes away and not hang on to piles for a yard
sale. It seems that if I could just get
organized, it would actually start freeing up more
of our income because I would have a better handle
on things. If I have a yard sale, though, it
would give us a little more to work with on our
budget.
I just thought I would ask for your insight.
Thanks so much for your time!
Julie
It depends. If you are having a garage sale with a lot of "big stuff" like furniture, that you need to get rid of too then go ahead and have a sale, but if you are just selling clothes I wouldn't mess with it. You wouldn't get that much to make it worth it. There is a "pain in the buttocks" factor that needs to be taken into consideration. If you are going to make $100 and work 2-4 days getting stuff gathered, priced and set, and then spend 2 days sitting with the sale and 1 day cleaning up, is it worth to work for possibly a week for $100? Not in my book! Now, if I were to make $700 then it would be worth it!
One tip that I use, is I keep a box in the laundry room for clothes that are cleaned and ready for the thrift store or garage sale. Then I have a spot in my garage where I store it all when it get full. Then I either donate it or have a sale.
The main thing is GET RID OF IT! CLUTTER CREATES CHAOS! So let it go!!
I hope that helps some. Tawra
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Don't Forget!!
In case you missed out, we still have some Not Just Beans left so we left the moving sale up until Friday. If you want some you can get a great deal! This is the lowest price we will ever have so get it today.
Tawra
Hi Tawra!
I love your site! I have been helped tremendously
with your down-to-earth advice.
I wanted to ask your advice. I have a really hard
time keeping up with laundry and I'm so
embarrassed by the "mounds" that I have in my
laundry room. To be honest, there are a lot of
clothes that my family can no longer wear, and I
need to get rid of them. I was wondering, after
washing them, do you think that I should try to
have a yard sale to earn extra money, or should I
just bag them up and give the ones that look good
to Goodwill? Part of me really thinks that I just
need to get rid of all that clutter by giving the
clothes away and not hang on to piles for a yard
sale. It seems that if I could just get
organized, it would actually start freeing up more
of our income because I would have a better handle
on things. If I have a yard sale, though, it
would give us a little more to work with on our
budget.
I just thought I would ask for your insight.
Thanks so much for your time!
Julie
It depends. If you are having a garage sale with a lot of "big stuff" like furniture, that you need to get rid of too then go ahead and have a sale, but if you are just selling clothes I wouldn't mess with it. You wouldn't get that much to make it worth it. There is a "pain in the buttocks" factor that needs to be taken into consideration. If you are going to make $100 and work 2-4 days getting stuff gathered, priced and set, and then spend 2 days sitting with the sale and 1 day cleaning up, is it worth to work for possibly a week for $100? Not in my book! Now, if I were to make $700 then it would be worth it!
One tip that I use, is I keep a box in the laundry room for clothes that are cleaned and ready for the thrift store or garage sale. Then I have a spot in my garage where I store it all when it get full. Then I either donate it or have a sale.
The main thing is GET RID OF IT! CLUTTER CREATES CHAOS! So let it go!!
I hope that helps some. Tawra
****
Don't Forget!!
In case you missed out, we still have some Not Just Beans left so we left the moving sale up until Friday. If you want some you can get a great deal! This is the lowest price we will ever have so get it today.
Tawra
posted by Tawra Jean at 3:09 PM
6 Comments:
Tawra, You might remind your reader that she could maybe take her clothing to a consignment shop and get some money or some 'new' clothing in the sizes that she does need...
Take care. Roxie
There is also the factor of being a blessing to someone else, especially if you can easily find someone to give the clothing to OR know that it is going to a reputable charity/reseller. I don't subscribe to a "give to get" mentality, but if we are generous to others, we will usually find others are generous with us. Just my 2 cents.
Christy
Another good idea is to find someone you know who's also having a yard sale. If you don't have the big stuff or don't want to do it in your yard this could be the easy way to do it. Then, whatever is left over can be donated or consigned.
Tawra,
Thank you for sharing this letter and your response. I so very much agree with what you had to say and along with those who have left responses.
I think so many of us struggle with this issue. What to do with stuff?
I recently did a series of "Mentoring Moments" that talked about this same topic.
You can find it here:
http://lisahertel.blogspot.com/
I also posted your article with a link to your site as these posts went so well together.
Thanks again for your encouraging and helpful website/blog!
When I have clothes to pass on, I try to pull out the least worn to give to a family in true need. With the rest, we have found that it makes more sense for us to donate unneeded things to Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. My husband first separates our things into shirts, pants, shoes, etc., then diligently counts each item. He marks the number of items on a downloaded IRS donation form and has this signed by the operator at the site. This is used against our income tax each spring.
Karen
HEllo everyone. I'm one of your reader's from England. I regularly clear out my old clothing & either take it to a local charity shop (usually Cancer Research as I help there one day a week) if it is saleable or dump it in our local council's textile recyling bin. In this way nothing goes to waste & in the first place most of came from charity shops anyway. Waste not want not! By the way, I love your site.
Donna
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