{"id":697,"date":"2012-12-28T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-12-28T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:12:51","slug":"having-trouble-figuring-out-where-to-put-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/having-trouble-figuring-out-where-to-put-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Trouble Figuring Out Where to Put it All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donate the old so you have room for the new<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people received a bounty of new things over the holidays.\u00a0 Are you asking yourself where to store it all? Are your cabinets and drawers, closets and shelves already brimming? If so, clutter sometimes needs to go. You don\u2019t need to fill the spare room, basement or attic with storage overflow. Donate those bags and boxes of stuff.<\/p>\n<p><b>Do your community good<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The things you no longer need may be just what others are looking for. Donate them to Goodwill. Your donations fuel our mission. Our stores fund job training for people with disabilities or other barriers to independence.<\/p>\n<p><b>Remember donating in December means tax deductions in 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p>December 31 is the deadline to ensure your end-of-year donation is a tax write-off for the 2012 tax year. If itemizing, be sure to ask for a receipt.\u00a0 We can\u2019t place a value of your donations, only you can. \u00a0But here is a link to guidelines on how to value donated items. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Donation_Valuation_Guide.pdf\">http:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Donation_Valuation_Guide.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are some items we cannot take. Here is a list of what we can\u2019t take, including certain infant items, which are often recalled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/donation\/what_not_to_donate.php\">https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/donation\/what_not_to_donate.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donate the old so you have room for the new Many people received a bounty of new things over the holidays.\u00a0 Are you asking yourself where to store it all? Are your cabinets and drawers, closets and shelves already brimming? If so, clutter sometimes needs to go. You don\u2019t need to fill the spare room,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[117,69,70,109],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}