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DONATE MATERIALS

Donation by Appointment

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You can now book appointments online using this link or the button below. By limiting the number of materials that are coming in it supports the safety and health of our volunteers and staff members. 

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One of the ways Greener Good can keep the cost of items, workshops, camps and more low is by keeping our storage space smaller. This keeps our lease payment and utilities lower than if we were to store donations that we can't keep up with. Our volunteers and staff work hard to get items sorted, priced and stocked as quick as we can. As we can increase our number of volunteers and shoppers it will help us increase the amount of material donations we can accept. 

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​Teachers, students, artists, and creative types know how to take used and forgotten items and put them to good use! Check out our list of materials we accept that are clean, safe, and still usable. We may look through the items and let you know if there is anything we are not able to accept. Items can be loose or mismatched! Partial packages and partially used items are all a part of what we are working to save from the landfill and get out into the community to be used. ​

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Random Items Wish List:

* diamond art gems - leftovers (or full sets) please!

* leftover canvas fabric to make Greener Good shopping bags

 

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Reach us at 847.250.7185 or info@greener-good.org

Crafts Supplies

ART SUPPLIES

  • Blenders and erasers

  • Calligraphy

  • Canvases (blank)

  • Charcoal

  • Clay and related tools

  • Drawing and art utensils

  • Drawing compass

  • Easels

  • Linocut materials

  • Mosaic materials (glass, ceramic)

  • Paint, paintbrushes, related tools

  • Pastels

  • Sketchbooks and paper

  • Stretch canvas (higher quality is in demand)

  • Watercolors and paper

Image by Jas Min

BITS & BOBS

  • Altoid-style tins

  • Bread tags

  • Colorful, random objects

  • Dice​

  • Fun trinkets

  • Game pieces (they can be incomplete sets and one-offs)

  • Keys

  • Magnets (not refrigerator travel magnets)

  • Old tennis balls for good lil' doggies

  • Paper grocery bags

  • Pinback buttons

  • Printer cartridges (empty)

  • Spools (plastic or wood)

School Supply

CLASSROOM and OFFICE SUPPLIES

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  • Binder rings and binder clips

  • Big books (preK, tall books)

  • Book Bins

  • Metal bookends

  • ​Calculators (from the last 10 years in working condition)

  • Cardstock

  • Classroom items teachers and students use

  • Colored pencils

  • Glue (school, craft, sticks, super)

  • Erasers

  • Fidgets

  • Handheld 1-hole punch

  • Legos

  • Highlighters

  • Markers (Sharpies and dry erase only)

  • Math games

  • Mechanical pencils

  • Page protectors

  • Paper clips

  • ​Permanent Markers

  • Pens

  • Pencils

  • Petri dishes

  • Play plastic animals (small)

  • Pocket folders

  • Preschool learning items

  • Printer paper (reams)

  • Puzzles (50 - 500 pieces)

  • Reinforcement circles

  • Rewards

  • Rubberbands

  • Rulers and protractors - 12 inch rulers needed

  • Science kits

  • Scissors (adult all types)

  • Spanish teaching materials, especially kids books

  • Tape ("Scotch", packing, washi, fun duct tape patterns)

  • Tape dispensers with heavy bottom

  • Wood puzzleboards

Crafts Supplies

CRAFT SUPPLIES

  • Adult coloring books

  • Beads

  • Beeswax

  • Charms

  • Collage ephemera and materials

  • Clay (air dry, oven bake, polymer)

  • Dot markers

  • Felt sheets with and without sticky backing

  • Glue (hot glue sticks, mod podge, tacky glue, e6000)

  • Googly eyes

  • Jewelry (including broken and costume jewelry)

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (5"x9" or larger)

  • Marbles (round)

  • Mason jars

  • Perler beads, patterns, trays​

  • Pipe cleaners

  • Playdough

  • Pom poms

  • Popsicle sticks

  • Pony beads​

  • Styrofoam balls and shapes

  • Tempera crayons

  • Velcro

  • Wire

  • Craft supplies not on our Pause list (below)

Image by Darling Arias

NEEDLE ART & SEWING

  • Batting for quilting

  • Blocking boards

  • Buttons

  • Crochet hooks

  • Cutting mats

  • Embroidery hoops, thread, kits - high need for blue, green, white, black and brown thread

  • Embroidery fabric

  • Fabric - quilting, cotton, (clean, fat quarter or larger) 

  • Felting materials and tools

  • Grommets

  • Interfacing

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (clean, 4"x6" or larger)

  • Looms

  • Macrame cord

  • Scissors - all types

  • Sewing needles of all sizes

  • Sewing patterns - 1970 and prior years are welcome

  • Stitch counters and savers

  • String

  • Thread

  • Yarn - especially baby, sport, chunky and wool & purple acrylic

  • Zippers

Image by Marc Newberry

SCRAPBOOKING & COLLAGE

  • Bone folders

  • Used concert and show tickets

  • Dye cut stamps and machines

  • Embellishments (pause on accepting)

  • Maps

  • Postcards

  • Punches

  • Scrapbook paper

Image by Tuyen Vo

TOOLS

  • Cutting mats

  • Measuring tape

  • Mosaic tools

  • Leather punch

  • Sewing machines (beginner types in working condition)

Image by Tuyen Vo

PAUSE ON ACCEPTING
There are certain items we can't accept as we already have a lot

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  • Binders

  • Books (K-12 grade level) - pause until next summer

  • Bulletin borders

  • Calendars (whole or pictures only)

  • Clothes pins

  • Corks

  • Craft foam

  • Crayons​

  • Cricut machines (working) and related materials

  • Fabric paint

  • Fabric remnants less than fat quarter

  • Glitter

  • Knitting needles​

  • Notebooks (spiral, bound, graph, lined, unlined)

  • Organizers

  • Padded mailers (in reusable condition)

  • Paper (we do need 8.5x11 reams of paper)

  • Resource books (teachers) - never accepted

  • Ribbon

  • Rulers

  • Scrapbooking embellishments

  • Staples, staplers, staple removers

  • Stamps (cardmaking-type)

  • Vase gems

Donation by Appointment

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We are ready to accept donations by appointment only at our bigger space Wednesdays - Saturdays during regular shop hours. Our storage area isn't large like many of the neighboring thrift shops so we appreciate your understanding. DO NOT leave donations outside the door if we are closed! It is illegal and unsightly for the surrounding businesses and their customers. 

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​Teachers, students, artists, and creative types know how to take used and forgotten items and put them to good use! Check out our list of materials we accept that are clean, safe, and still usable. We may look through the items and let you know if there is anything we are not able to accept. Items can be loose or mismatched! Partial packages and partially used items are all a part of what we are working to save from the landfill and get out into the community to be used. ​

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