Davis Good Will

[princess62921.livejournal.com]

Does the Davis Square Thrift Shop have set hours to drop off donations?

Comments

[inahandbasket]

whenever it's open I think.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

The easiest thing to do is to look up the number and give them a call.

Here ya go.

(617) 628-3618

But as the previous person said, as long as they are open they will take your donations.

[ron_newman]

Seconded. Phoning a business to ask a question like this is almost always a better choice than posting it to an LJ community.

Thanks

[princess62921.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I called and they said they do have set hours. Monday through Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-6pm.

Hope this helps anyone else who is curious.

Re: Thanks

[ron_newman]

Hmm. This page says Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm, Sunday noon-6pm.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

you can also leave stuff in front of the door after hours, if you can't get there when they're open.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Don't they have a sign up asking people not to do that?

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're really not supposed to abandon stuff there.

There *IS* an unmanned charity-clothes box on Elm near Joey's Thai...

[ron_newman]

But doesn't that belong to Planet Aid? Which is not a legitimate charity.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Eek! I had no idea! Didn't they have a thrift store in Harvard Square awhile ago?

[ron_newman]

Yes, and one in Davis too, about where Wainwright Bank is today. I don't think they operate any local stores anymore.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

they do? oh, crap, the last time i donated clothes i left them after hours. >.< (it was a long time ago, but still. ooops.)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Who knows, they may not have had the sign then. The Goodwill where I lived in Ithaca (or was it a Salvo?) took after-hours donations; but then, they had a big parking lot.

[ron_newman]

Please don't do that! It makes a mess, and they explicitly don't want it.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i only did it once, and i must not have seen the sign. well, i stand corrected. (and feel stupid. >.< )

[ron_newman]

One reason not to do it is that people scavenge such 'donations' while the store is closed, and then the store has to clean up the results.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Though my hunch is that anyone willing to scavenge donations from outside a thrift store is likely to need them and I wouldn't begrudge 'em, the resultant mess is definitely an undue problem for the store to deal with.

Have you seen what the inside of that store looks like at the end of August? INSANITY! I don't know how they manage it. Any place that takes in-kind donations is gonna be balancing back and forth between actually getting useful stuff vs actually "losing money" if they "spend" more in man-hours of sorting and organizing (and pitching trash) than the good stuff would be worth if they just bought it. I guess that's why so few places do it -- they'd mostly just rather have money.

/rambling

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

which is fine if you enjoy angering the people who accept said donations.

Thanks

[princess62921.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I called and in case anyone is curious they do have set hours for drop off donations. Monday-Saturday is 10am-5pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm.

[nomacmac.livejournal.com]

The Salvation Army on Broadway, in Magoun Sq, has a drop-off box for after-hours donations.