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AMVETS Illinois is proud to become an important part of the DonateStuff.com community.

As of January 2018, all traffic from AMVETSpickup.com website will now be able to the simply schedule future donations with the easy to use DonateStuff.com site. We are very excited to have the upgraded look and easy to use interface for making those important donations for our American Veterans.

Please help us meet our goals for 2018 to make this the best year ever for AMVETS Illinois by scheduling a donation today.

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Mothers Day 2016

We at DonateStuff.com want to take a moment to recognize all mothers out there on this Mother’s Day weekend for everything you do. Thank you for caring enough to tell us to go to bed earlier on a school night. To quit sitting so close to the TV or we’ll go blind. Even for making us clean our rooms when they were cleaned just 2 weeks ago.

It was something we didn’t want to hear at the time, but all the things you do and say were not wasted on deaf ears. We may yell and scream, act like we do not hear you, and even roll our eyes when you give us chores. But know that we will always be thankful and eternally grateful for the never ending love you heap upon us through the years.

This Mother’s Day, reach out and help mom clean out the closets by donating unwanted clothing and household items. DonateStuff.com has kept over 11 million pounds of clothing out of landfills last year alone. Schedule a FREE donation pickup today.

Even if DonateStuff does not pick up in your area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing that remains. Simply request our FREEUPS prepaid shipping bags.

Turn Stuff You Don’t Need, Into a Good Deed.

Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

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Earth Day 2016

Earth Day is soon upon us this year. Earth Day is a world wide event that is held every year to demonstrate support for environmental protection. As always, one of the easiest ways to support the environment is to recycle your clothing and household items that you no longer need or want.

DonateStuff.com has kept over 11 million pounds of clothing out of landfills last year alone. Celebrate Earth Day with us this year and demonstrate your support for the environment and help create a lasting legacy for our children many years to come. Schedule a FREE donation pickup today.

Even if DonateStuff does azab not pick up in your area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing that remains. Simply request our FREEUPS prepaid shipping bags.

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Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

Please consider donating your unwanted:

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation
Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
The City Mission is our newest charity partner.  We are proud to support this 100+ year old organization dedicated to helping those in need.
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Tax Time 2016

“Tax time” is just around the corner. Of course, you know the deadline to file taxes. Or, do you? This year is different! The filing deadline to submit your 2015 tax returns is Monday, April 18, 2016, rather than the traditional April 15 date.

This year, April 15th falls on the observance of Emancipation Day which is a holiday celebrated in Washington DC each year. This gives you 3 extra days to file your taxes.

At DonateStuff.com you can schedule a donation pick up of your gently used clothing and household items. We will pick up your items and provide a just in time tax deductible receipt for your kind donation.

Even if DonateStuff does not pick-up in your area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing. Simply request our FREE UPS prepaid shipping bags. Fill the bags with your gently used clothing, jewelry, and electronics. Then drop your donation off at the nearest UPS store.

Getting a tax deductible receipt couldn’t be easier! We are committed to making the connection between people with usable items they don’t need and charities that can benefit from them. By donating with DonateStuff.com you truly are Turning stuff you don’t need into a good deed!

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Turn Stuff You Don’t Need, Into a Good Deed.

Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

Please consider donating your unwanted:

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation
Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
The City Mission is our newest charity partner.  We are proud to support this 100+ year old organization dedicated to helping those in need.
The Military Order of the Purple is our longest partnership, dating back over 50 years!
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Spring into giving 2016

I don’t know about you, but I am very ready for spring to come. I can’t wait for the sun to shine, the flowers to bloom, and to put away my boots and sweaters. It’s my favorite time of year to enjoy the great outdoors, Easter egg hunts, and breathe in that clean spring air.

Spring is right around the corner and so is our annual rite of spring cleaning. Let’s start this spring by cleaning out the closets, drawers, garage, or anything else by donating your gently used clothing and household items. DonateStuff can help with your spring cleaning. We will pick up your unwanted clothing and household items from your home for FREE and provide you a tax deductible receipt.

Even if DonateStuff does not pick-up in your area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing. Simply request our FREE UPS prepaid shipping bags. Fill the bags with your gently used clothing, jewelry, and electronics. Then drop your donation off at the nearest UPS store.

DonateStuff.com has kept over 11 million pounds of clothing out of landfills over the last year. So “Spring Into Giving” with your generous donation and receive a tax deductible receipt.

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Turn Stuff You Don’t Need, Into a Good Deed.

Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

Please consider donating your unwanted:

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation
Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
The City Mission is our newest charity partner.  We are proud to support this 100+ year old organization dedicated to helping those in need.
The Military Order of the Purple is our longest partnership, dating back over 50 years!
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Fall foliage viewing times

Fall is upon us once again in the northern parts of the country. Every year the leaves start changing to brilliant hues of reds and golds. Use the chart above to make sure you don’t miss your opportunity to see nature’s display first hand in Why the CVS-Aetna Merger Could Benefit Consumers sportspeople usshop shoppers drug mart submits application to be medical marijuana distributor your area over the coming weeks.

Like the trees, it’s also time to begin changing our wardrobes to clothing that keep us warm and dry. As we begin changing our wardrobes, consider donating your gently used clothing as opposed to tossing it out in the trash.

It’s easier than ever to clean your closets and receive a tax deductible donation receipt for your clothing and small household donations. Simply visit us online at DonateStuff.com to schedule a FREE donation pick up in your area.

If DonateStuff does not pick up in your local area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing. Simply request our FREE UPS prepaid shipping bags. Fill them with your good conditioned clothing, jewelry, or small electronics and return the bag to your nearest UPS drop off location.

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation

Turn Stuff You Don’t Need, Into a Good Deed.

Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

Please consider donating your unwanted:

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation
Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
The City Mission is our newest charity partner.  We are proud to support this 100+ year old organization dedicated to helping those in need.
The Military Order of the Purple is our longest partnership, dating back over 50 years!
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We are now mobile friendly!

You now have more ways than ever to schedule your FREE donation pick up of gently used clothing and household items. DonateStuff.com has been made mobile friendly. No more pinching and resizing your smartphone or tablet screen to see everything. Our website has been optimized for you to be easier than ever to use.

DonateStuff.com will continue to offer our steroides oraux donors the most convenient and innovative ways possible to donate their unwanted clothing and household items forFREE. We are proud to support our charity partners nationwide through your kind donations. Go ahead and give it a try today!

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Spring has sprung all around us. May flowers are in full bloom and birds are singing their morning songs. Old man winter seems to have finally fallen asleep giving way to blue skies and warmer weather.

Along with spring comes our yearly rituals of spring cleaning. Sorting through closets and garages determined to bring order back from the clutter. DonateStuff.com can help with your spring cleaning. We will pick up your unwanted clothing and household items from your home for FREE and provide you a tax deductible receipt.

Even if DonateStuff does not pick-up in your area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing. Simply request our FREE UPS prepaid shipping bags. Fill the bags with your gently used clothing, jewelry, and electronics. Then drop your donation off at the nearest UPS store.

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation

Turn Stuff You Don’t Need, Into a Good Deed.

Your support helps veterans and families in need.

From everyone at DonateStuff.com, we sincerely appreciate your continued support.

Please consider donating your unwanted:

Click HERE to Schedule a Donation

 

Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
 

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7 steps to happiness

Rosenblum: 7 steps to happiness

  • Article by: GAIL ROSENBLUM , Star Tribune
  • Updated: January 3, 2015 – 7:49 PM

Volunteering can bring you (and others) happiness.

Photo: Ryan Blackwell, Public Opinion file

Happy 2015! Is anybody happy?

Apparently not, if the results of a recent Harris Poll are to believed. This being the first week of a new year, I’d like to offer a few ideas to increase our collective happiness immediately.

They’re cheaper than a gym membership and easier than giving up sugar or caffeine, which I won’t do because that would make me very unhappy.

This column began percolating (yes, please, with cream!) a few months ago, when I noticed a little chart illustrating the comforting news that the older we get, the happier we are.

People age 65 and older, according to the survey of more than 2,300 Americans, are happier than any other age group. This is likely a bummer for young people, but, to those regularly making bucket lists, it’s kind of a relief.

The problem is that the deeper and more troubling news was buried. (Oh, bad word choice.)

Yes, older Americans are the happiest demographic, but even those 65 and older aren’t overwhelmingly so. Just 41 percent in this age group report being happy.

People ages 50 to 64 are the second happiest group and they’re just (OK, we’re just) 36 percent happy.

The least happy group, at 28 percent, are people in their 30s.

I’m guessing that the happiness dip here is due, in part, to navigating those enriching but difficult years of marriage-adjusting, budget-keeping, child-rearing, sleep-depriving, job-hunting and friendship-shifting. (Hang in there! The kids grow up!)

7 steps to happiness

This brings me back to my original thesis: We’re not a very happy nation, and I think we should be working on this in 2015.

So, for the price of this newspaper, my list:

Get rid of stuff. Did you know that one of the fastest growing businesses is … storage? My colleague Susan Feyder reported recently that the Twin Cities area storage business is booming, due to our Western habit of accumulating all sorts of things we can’t fit into our homes. This is not making us happier. Call your favorite charity or join millions of green-minded people who get rid of stuff at www.free cycle.org or donatestuff.com.

Volunteer. Read, mentor, drive, cook and serve, and you’ll enter a guaranteed happy factory for the few hours a week you can spare.

Hang out with happy people or people who want to be happier. Join the Twin Cities chapter of the Meetup group I Am Happy Project. The project began in California in 2009 and has expanded to 63 cities and 18 countries, with a mission to “spread happiness globally, one person at a time.”

The group’s website (iamhappyproject.org) will make you happy, with its photos of puppies and little girls in pink tutus. You can find a “happy coach” or buy an official “I Am Happy” Pin and wear it around your most cynical friends. So much happiness for only $5!

Stop trying to get rich. Yes, money is crucial for lower income groups, enabling them to find a home and stop worrying about where their next meal is coming from. But the high from cash is fleeting. While people who make $100,000 or more annually are the happiest group, they’re not that much happier than people who make $35,000 to $49,999 (38 percent vs. 32 percent).

Be nicer to people. Being right won’t make you as happy in the long run as being kind. I share this philosophy with a happy friend and loyal reader, Betsy Peak, who tackled this very concept in her “Musings and Hopes for 2015” newsletter:

“Being right takes up too much energy, causes anxiety, causes losses of friends sometimes (however, if they’re toxic people, you’re lucky),” Peak writes. “And immediately taking out their smartphone to see who’s right is tacky!”

Speaking of smartphones, take a deep breath and store them on occasion. I just watched a woman talk mindlessly on her iPhone as two young men behind a coffee counter tried valiantly to get her order, and her attention. She missed an opportunity for happy banter with those two neat young men and the fascinating (and increasingly unhappy) people behind her in line. Ahem.

Refocus on relationships. It is worth noting that, while the Harris happiness survey revealed quite the contrary, there was one clear exception. Fully 90 percent of respondents agreed that, “My relationships with friends bring me happiness.” So call them. Visit them, and I don’t mean in cyberspace. Forgive them their imperfections. Send them a handwritten letter. And make sure that you do the same for relatives, those people who look like us whom we too often take for granted or allow to become estranged.

I recently witnessed a reconciliation in my own extended clan that no one predicted. The weird thing isn’t that each party was exquisitely (albeit guardedly) happy at having reached this unpredicted detente.

It’s that the rest of us also were filled to the brim with happiness.

 

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Merry Christmas from DonateStuff.com!

Christmas is only a couple days away now. Many have prepared over the last several months for this special day. From tree trimming and house decorating to Christmas parties and gift wrapping. Through all our preparation however, there is still one thing left to consider. -The cleanup.The good news is that DonateStuff.com can help. We are partnered with wonderful charities that can benefit from your generous donations of used clothing and household items. Charities like The Military Order of the Purple HeartAmvets, andThe City Mission.We can help by picking up your unwanted clothing and household donations. And the best part is that your kind donation goes to benefit our wonderful charity partners this holiday season and you receive a tax deductible donation receipt. Simply visit us online at DonateStuff.com to schedule a FREE donation pick up in your area.

Even if DonateStuff does not pick-up in your local area, you can still get a tax deductible receipt for your good conditioned clothing. Simply request our FREE UPS prepaid shipping bags.

From all of us at DonateStuff.com have a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Your donations of clothing, shoes and accessories support U.S. veterans
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