In addition to donating money, I urge you to look through your closets and drawers (especially your children's closets and drawers) to see what you can give.
Here's a sampling of what we gave to the cause:
- excess winter coats that we had just in case 'a friend' needed it
- pants that my kids said they didn't like (translation - I'm never wearing them)
- long sleeved shirts that my son refuses to wear due to hot classrooms
- hand me downs that in my heart of hearts knew we wouldn't use
- pajamas that I really didn't wear that often (it didn't hurt that my husband noticed/commented that I had 2 drawers of pjs!)
- sweat jackets that were piled on the closet door hooks that we really could live without.
- one of the 8 packs of toilet paper that came in my Sam's Club Value Pack of toilet paper.
Now is a perfect time to let it go. We were able to drop off items at our local synagogue and I saw numerous mentions on Facebook about other drop off locations.
Go for it - you will be glad you did!
