<p>About leaving clothes in hotel rooms—not a good idea. Hotel workers can be accused of stealing by management even if you give them directly to a worker. You are just leaving more work for the staff.</p>
<p>Those machines which give gift cards for your coins–they don’t all have the same gift card selection in them. I found one with Amazon cards which for me is like getting full cash back.</p>
<p>I’m trying to remember. A friend of mine said they wore old clothes traveling. I think it was so they could throw them away and have room in their suitcases for souvenirs to bring home. They are replacing their stuff with more stuff, so not sure it accomplishes the goal of getting rid of stuff. On the other hand, they maybe are not having a net accumulation, at least. </p>
<p>I have left things in hotel rooms. But not on purpose. Not yet, anyway. Mainly what I have left behind are phone/battery chargers, a bad habit which annoys me to no end, as it is a pain to replace them. Maybe someone else got some use out of them, I hope so. </p>
<p>Mstee. The souvenirs we brought home were gifts for others…to help them clutter up their houses :)</p>
<p>But if you want to see a beautiful basket, do a google search for Rwandan baskets. They sell here for a lot of money. We bought them directly from the basket maker at a coop in Rwanda…no middleman…for $3 each. </p>
<p>I was glad to ditch the clothes to make room for the ten baskets we brought back, and th rwnadan coffee which is awesome! Oh…and the Belgium chocolates we bought too! Priorities!</p>
<p>sevmom -I donate plenty of clothing to the appropriate places, thanks for your concern. But sometimes I want to clear something out - like, let’s say, a ratty t-shirt or pair of pajamas or older undergarments that aren’t donate-worthy – and yes, in cases like that, I prefer to wear it on a trip and then throw it out and have more room in my suitcase. Oh well. Not perfect. </p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying. </p>
<p>Thanks to all who have posted on this thread – it has been an inspiration to me. “Clear out the basement” was just way too overwhelming, but “A Bag a Week” got me moving. Happy to say that a local charity collection service came this morning, and removed 7 bags/boxes of donations from my front porch!</p>
<p>@WalkingTessie: Who is Tessie?</p>
<p>^My fabulous little Tibetan Terrier!</p>
<p>S2 doesn’t have a job yet for the summer. I have told him that if he can sell stuff I want to get rid of, he can keep the proceeds. Hope that works for motivation! :D</p>
<p>Hi, CountingDown, I was thinking I would like to sell a bunch of stuff as well. I have done garage sales a couple of times but it’s been years and I got rid of a bunch of stuff (took anything left over that didn’t sell directly to a donation place rather than bringing anything back into the house) but didn’t make a lot of money (about $200 if I recall correctly). Anybody have any other ideas of how to go about selling things? I looked into Ebay but it seems complicated to do it yourself. I thought I had recalled there were Ebay dropoff sites (where they take a percentage) but couldn’t find any info. Did they ever do that or am I thinking of something else?</p>
<p>There were Ebay local drop offs; don’t know if they are still around. Our synagogue is having a yard sale in July, so I will spring for the $18 table rental so he can sell the old bicycles, headboard, etc. He would be thrilled to make $200 at this point. </p>
<p>$200 would pay for my dumpster, maybe I should have a tag sale first…then get the dumpster. </p>
<p>Having a yard sale later this week - not much of big value but lots of “junk”. Told my H that this was not a money maker but a space maker event!!! Happy to get rid of it - if it doesn’t sell, a friend runs a parish rummage sale and she will take what’s left! </p>
<p>For those of you you have old tshirts that you feel bad getting rid of, consider making these no-sew reusable totes out of them and then use them or donate them!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.instructables.com/id/No-Sew-10-Minute-T-Shirt-Tote/”>http://www.instructables.com/id/No-Sew-10-Minute-T-Shirt-Tote/</a></p>
<p>Kids tshirts make really cute totes - great for kids to haul library books, toys, whatever!! </p>
<p>CD, baby kiddo spent a month ebaying away her old books and some clothes such as party dresses before leaving for her overseas assignment. She did make some money out of what I thought was pure junk! One man’s trash… 
It is amazing what sells for the right price! Just make the buyers pay for shipping AND do not ship internationally.</p>
<p>PG, that is a good strategy that I also need to implement. This is not about donating clothes, this is about trashing old rags, which is perfectly fine. Leaving something hanging on the shelf with a note “please take” is a different issue…</p>
<p>Abasket…we do NOT need 100 t shirt totes! :)</p>
<p>Haha Thumper!!! I was just reading some tshirt talk a couple pages back and thought it was a good solution for people who ant part with dozens of tshirts! Donate them to the local senior center for when they have freebies for the seniors!!! :)</p>
<p>Take old shirts to the landfill. I’m a big fan of NOT passing along ones junk to others.</p>
<p>Ok, then…!</p>
<p>(For the record, I wasn’t talking ratty old tshirts)</p>
<p>I’m not talking ratty shirts either. But really…old t shirts are old t shirts…terrific rags.</p>
<p>I haven’t read the whole thread, but I got a couple of my favorite things (shirt and jacket) at a clothing exchange party one of my friends had. Everyone cleaned out their closet and brought clothes they didn’t want anymore. People took what they wanted and everything that was left went to charity. </p>