You see I love donating pre-loved items though most of the time I asked the recipients not to announce it publicly (and so do with the other small charities that I do). Donating usable stuff that you no longer need is beneficial in two ways. First, it enables you to do a small act of charity plus it also gives you the chance to spend time cleaning out and disposing useful things in a meaningful manner.
For some reasons my family has this mysterious way of accumulating lots of clothing and personal stuff (and not to boast most of them are of good quality and brands). But no! - we do not buy them all. Most of them are gifts from relatives and friends. Anyway I think this clothing accumulation is normal because me and husband are both working and need to dress up most of the time plus that we have two rapidly growing kids.
Anyway going back to the unfinished collection of pre-loved stuff (1st paragraph). I continued collecting miscellaneous items that we no longer need from our family stuff. My thought is that I would have a ready batch to send to anybody who will need them. Then came Typhoon Yolanda… I did not think twice.
But here’s one secret that I would like to share and I hope that you will not judge me for this. In spite of my not having problem on letting go of my personal stuff even some of them have sentimental values, there are particular stuff that I can’t let go – my running gears. Particularly my running shoes.

That is why it was such a wonder for me when while I was cleaning my shoe cabinet, I suddenly picked some pairs and consider the thought of including them among the items that I continuously collecting for donation to Typhoon Yolanda victims.
Will I or will I not let these pairs go? To be continued…
2 comments:
I hear you balut, i'm also a pack rat collect items that doesnt makes sense anymore, too bad they were items not worthy to be donations. but anyways, you're willingness to help already means a lot
Follow your heart Balut:)
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