quiltingcotton

Have you ever had a process that you loved and purchased a lot of the items needed to do your quilting using that process, whether it is sewing/basting/notions/ruler quilting/fabric, etc. I guess the reason I started doing this, is because usually when I find something I like and at the time use a lot, that it is an item that is all of the sudden no longer sold. So, I've gotten to the point that I buy extras. But, hangs head, here I stand wanting to clear out some shelves.

What do you do with the items that you no longer need to do that type of process with, when you found a new way that you like better? Or, items that you know you no longer like or would use?

I know I can donate it to Goodwill, however our Goodwill in my area has turned into a dollar store type. They buy old lots from stores and sell them. I haven't seen any 'donated' items on the shelves at my Goodwill in ages. So I really wonder what they are doing with the items that people are still donating to them.

I could list the items and sell them, especially the rulers I guess, but to mail them is so expensive, and I would never get out of them even half of what I paid for them to begin with. Plus, I really don't have the inclination to buy or get a box to send something that might break or get lost in transit and drive multi miles to drop it off at the post office. But in the same token, leaving it sit on my shelf isn't doing me any good, other than taking up room. It makes my head hurt to think about it.

I guess I just want the items I no longer want to go to someone who can use them, without the work to get them to the person/or people. I've tried churches/independent living places/the local schools, but nope, thanks but no thanks are the answers I get without the places even looking at what I want to freely give them. I could put them on craigslist for free, but I don't want people at my house, nor do I want to haul it to a meeting area.

I know I must sound like a lazy whiner. I'll make some decisions soon, I know, and probably just donate somewhere, somehow. But, in the meantime I feel like just putting them all in a thick garbage bag and putting the bag out with the trash. Sigh...