Let’s Do This! Spring Cleaning with a Purpose
Spring is finally here! As you may have noticed, I am excited and have had several posts about it over the last few months. In addition to all the beautiful flowers emerging from their long Winter’s nap, Easter, Spring Break, and warmer weather; Spring means that we start spring cleaning.If you haven’t been motivated to participate in the spring cleaning craze before now, knowing that you can benefit your community and help create jobs by spending just a few hours of your day doing it, making your spring cleaning worth it, may motivate you to join the rest of and do it!
According to Google Trends, searches for “spring cleaning” typically peak around the first days of spring through the middle of April. Where you one of those searching? Did you find any great tips? I recently posted some Spring Cleaning Tips and a Spring Cleaning List to help make the task easier for you. As you get your home sparkling clean and refreshed, it is also the perfect time to purge your closets, cabinets, garage, and other spaces of all the extra items that you no longer need and donate them. A great place to take those items is Goodwill. Did you know that donations of clothing or household goods to Goodwill help create jobs directly in your community? In fact, those items get a second act in another person’s life. That’s spring cleaning with a purpose!Be sure to check out these Spring Cleaning Tips from Goodwill, too.
In addition to donating and shopping at Goodwill, I have spent many hours volunteering at several of our local Goodwill stores. I learned a lot about this organization while doing it. Just as the needs of our community keep growing so do their need for your donations so that they can continue to help all those who rely on them.
Goodwill Helps One Person Find a Good Job Every 23 Seconds:
- Thanks to the programs and support services made possible by donations of clothes and household items, Goodwill helped place more than 312,000 people in jobs in the United States and Canada in 2015 – that’s one person finding a job every 23 seconds of every business day.
- Through its 162 local, independent headquarters, Goodwill collectively provided job placement services, onsite and virtual skills training, and other community-based services (such as English-language training, financial education, youth mentoring and access to transportation and child care) in 2015. Last year, nearly 2 million people engaged in face-to-face Goodwill services to advance in their careers. More than 35 million people accessed education, training, mentoring and online learning tools offered by Goodwill virtually to strengthen their skills and gain industry-recognized credentials.
- Goodwill sells donated goods at more than 3,200 stores across the U.S. and Canada, and channels more than 85 percent of sales revenue from donated goods to provide job preparation and placement, education assistance, and other support services for people who are unemployed or underemployed. Employment is more than a paycheck. It’s a resounding victory for that person, their families, and their community.
The Ad Council teamed up with Goodwill to show how your donations of clothing and household items can support job growth in your community. Here’s How They Do It!
Great way to donate.
I love that we have a Goodwill donation location in our town….makes it so easy to get rid of good stuff we don’t need anymore!
very interesting,,im going to start real soon,and just do one room at a time,,i think ill get less overwhelmed that way
When my Mother passed we donated everything that the 4 of children didn’t want it was great that they came out to get and it felt great for all us to give away to those in need.?
here in my ar3ea we have thrift store you give your things to my gf pick up new bed and some out side furniture for a great deal and then it all was brought in one day
This is awesome, I totally agree! It is so easy to donate during Spring cleaning, especially when you have little ones! Every year I donate all of their old toys and clothes. Not only does it clear our home from clutter, but it teaches them about helping others as well.
I need to do some serious spring cleaning as my husband tries to drag more stuff home after his dad passed. I let him keep some, but now I make him get rid of something of his in order to keep something of his dad’s.