Daily Check-in

[fred_mouse]

Hi Everyone!

Have you found something to declutter? Made a plan that you can implement later? What is today's decluttering win?

Open to regulars, drive by commenters, and lurkers alike!

Comments

[vae]

Oh that's very cool! All the ones arounnd here (UK, Norfolk) can only recycle paperbacks, even the specialist charity/secondhand bookshops.

[tanaqui]

Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. It may be that you're too far from any of the recycling companies for them to be willing to do pickups. At least two of them are in the West Midlands (we had to switch companies after the first one proved too unreliable) and I think one is somewhere south of London.

But thank you for responding to my ranting so graciously! And this conversation has reminded me I really should write a post for this comm with some tips on how to maximise the value of your donations to the charities you donate to. :-)

[vae]

Norfolk is often too far from things! We don't have any motorways and it makes a lot of "nationwide" services unwilling to run lorries out here.

My mother set up a charity secondhand bookshop in north Norfolk and she's done all she can to set up recycling, along with identifying higher value books and creating a relationship with a local antiquarian bookseller so he can get first dibs on them as they don't have the volunteer time to manage selling on abe/ebay. So yes, donate your books if you don't need every penny from putting the work into reselling them yourself! And definitely donate them if you thing they're not worth any money.