If you're trying to stay woke and make humane decisions with your unwanted but useable stuff...whattya do? I've heard that either Salvation Army or Goodwill (or both?) doesn't feed nearly enough of their profits to rehabilitation/unhoused/community programs as one might expect, so that feels shifty. I do also think about the idea that at least they're helping a little? But there have to be more structurally solid answers out there. I know; a lot of corporatized thrift operations are that way—not REALLY not-for-profit, if analyzed. I am also aware that a good number of them are founded, funded, supported, or run by religious organizations whose morals and beliefs don't align with my own. I can see doing commerce with a person or company that subscribes to ideals that differ from my own. There are hard caveats. Be: pro LGBTQI+ , be pro women's rights, do not discriminate etc. I'm an ally to all the good humans. I want more on board. THOSE are the companies I want to do commerce with. Yes, I know that sounds impossible. I bargain what I can with decisions that are as sound as possible. I also have a horrible history of collecting stuff that loses value or use in my life, if it ever really had any to begin with. Over the years, I learn to take less in and purge a little more here and there, especially to offset what's coming in. Family passes on, relatives get a chance to take home knickknacks you've held onto for too long. You sit with a thing for a time, then realize you could easily live with much less than you have. Maybe ONE box of VHS tapes.
It's perfectly fine to have one version of Monopoly. Maybe even two. I don't need another box of Monopoly nor any more versions of Clue. Worst part about getting rid of board games is the transitionary time between "I'm getting rid of this" and "I am driving away from the place I've donated this." What an awkwardly shaped item. If I had 10 board games I wanted to be rid of all at once—that makes much more sense. You can stack them all together, maybe even there's a box that works to fit a bunch.
If I have 2? All of a sudden it's like the idea of a box is entirely new. You don't want to stand up the game and have all the pieces fall out. You don't want to tape this 68 year old version of Connect Four together because, when anyone takes the tape off of the brittle box, all of the print goes with it. Also...why WHY does that thought live in my head? IT'S A BOX WHO CARES.
