daemonluna

Anyone local got any bits and pieces of household stuff they could get rid of?

drakkenfyre has a friend-of-a-friend who's a twenty-year-old single mom with a three-year-old. She's just moved out, has no support from the father or her family, and has, quite literally, nothing.

Original post is here (and hopefully

drakkenfyre doesn't mind me cross-posting.)

I know not everyone has the slow build-up of extra kitchen stuff we seem to accumulate, or care about matching towels, and might not have spare stuff kicking around. (I already had a pile of stuff that was heading to the Women-in-Need Thrift Store anyhow, so. And am finally getting rid of the TV I inherited from friends when I first moved out. It's from 1985. It still works, though it has no remote. I gave it away at one point already, but then it was given back.)

Granted, most people probably don't have a pile of spare kids' books sitting around. (There was this pile of library discards from when

troutkitty was teaching ESL... Plus some other stuff I'd accumulated...)

But if you've got and are willing to give up things like:
- random bits of kitchen utensils you inherited from somewhere and never use, like that second can opener
- that set of plastic bowls which start to bend alarmingly when you put hot soup in them (but that a three-year-old could eat cereal out of perfectly happily)
- the coffee mugs with various company and organization logos that just sit at the back of the cupboard
- the insulated mug you never use since you don't drink coffee anyhow (obviously a hypothetical situation, since I am firmly clutching my morning caffiene right now)
- those mismatched towels or sheets or dish cloths at the back of the drawer with the lovely floral pattern that possibly were your grandmother's
- the old (still-working) toaster that was replaced by the new one which fits a bagel instead of just toast, but is still collecting dust on a shelf
- the lamp sitting at the back of the closet that still works but doesn't really fit anywhere
- the teddy bear that came with a bunch of balloons from some co-workers and is kinda cute but has no emotional significance
- the bottle of unopened bubble bath you got for Christmas that you're probably allergic to and will never open
- the pile of unopened hotel-size soaps that are collecting in a bottom draw for no particular reason
- or anything else you don't need or use that somebody else could

Let me know, and I'll make arrangements to get it from you (um, if you're in Calgary, that is) and to

drakkenfyre, who will then pass it along to the person who needs it.

ETA: I have awesome friends. Not counting our stuff which went over earlier, after I'd loaded it all into the car and taken it to

drakkenfyre's, it took us both four trips to get everything out of the car.