I am preparing to do a massive craft destash. I haven’t used a bunch of the stuff in my craft room in the year since Jer and Shamala came down to help me clean the room, and that means I probably don’t need it.
I’m not sure the best way to divest myself of these things. They’re all perfectly good craft tools and supplies, not crap. (For instance, I have *4* guillotine paper cutters. I want to get rid of two of them.) I also don’t want to hold on to things forever waiting for someone from Facebook / FreeCycle / Craigslist to come pick things up (the goal being to make these things go away). Schools are remarkably hard to give thing to. I tried giving a bunch of craft supplies to my local elementary school the *last* time I did this, and there was a whole process, that was going to take several hours that I didn’t have the energy for.
(I know what to do with yarn that I’m going to be rehoming. Unless anyone here has an interest in it, and come get it, or meet me somewhere, I will be taking it to Cloverhill Yarn to offer to friends, and then adding it to the charity knitting box.)
But for the rest of it: What to do, what to do?
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If you have a local senior citizen’s center, see what they will take.
Nursery schools also use lots of craft items
I will take crafty things… but it requires shipping, for which i will reimberse you for of course 🙂
I should do this but I know as soon as I do I will need it for a kids craft project, end up buying it again, and kick myself. Of course, if I keep everything, I will be unable to find anything, buy it again, and kick myself.
And duh, if you have beads to destash that aren’t plastic, I am probably interested. 🙂
I can probably take a bunch and distribute it to the girls’ school, and other local groups. I’m sure we can arrange a hand-off somewhere and then I’d actually get to meet you in person. 😉