Portlandia 4 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Redistribute
Here's the fourth of five visits to Portlandy things I love. We seem to have a theme of redistribution going on. Today I visited two favorite east-side reduce/reuse/recycle places.
The floor and corners of my former-but-now-demolished closet yielded up several bags of yarn. Craft-hobby-creative supplies are hard to get rid of because they have monetary and sentimental value. Even though I'm willing to let them go, I hate to give them away indiscriminately. That's why, even after the massive decluttering of Project Empty, my closet remained crammed with the stuff.
Recently I found a new and wonderful way to move it along. It's an operation called SCRAP Creative Reuse Center. Like the Rebuilding Center, it's non-profit and takes donations, which are tax-deductible. They take yarn, fabric, beads, little boxes, pens, paints--basically all kinds of little doo-dads that creative people can use for making stuff. And it's right up the street from me.
Eleanor O laden with donations outside Scrap. The red trailer is a craft gallery
SCRAP is located in a grungy old light-industrial space, filled with bins and racks of oddball stuff. I saw a barrel full of never-used wine corks, one of pre-printed small cardboard boxes in their unfolded-up state, rolls of silver mylar tape narrow enough to knit with, buckets of crayons sorted by color...a strange array, donated by end-users and industry alike, thematically linked only by "wow, that's kind of cool! I could make something out of that, I bet..."
Stuff you find at Scrap
One of the fun re-purposed object ideas in the Re-Boutique
The lady wearing cat-ears who accepted my yarn donation was happy to have it, and we spent a couple of pleasant minutes chit-chatting about the suddenly-gorgeous, perfect-for-bike-riding weather. A children's craft class was just getting underway so several moms and kids were filing in.
Later in the day I went to Free Geek, yet another non-profit where you donate stuff and they do good with it--in this case, electronic stuff.
I wasn't donating today, just looking for a particular adapter, which I found for three bucks. (It didn't actually serve my purpose once I got it home, so I guess I'll donate it back again.)
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The floor and corners of my former-but-now-demolished closet yielded up several bags of yarn. Craft-hobby-creative supplies are hard to get rid of because they have monetary and sentimental value. Even though I'm willing to let them go, I hate to give them away indiscriminately. That's why, even after the massive decluttering of Project Empty, my closet remained crammed with the stuff.
Recently I found a new and wonderful way to move it along. It's an operation called SCRAP Creative Reuse Center. Like the Rebuilding Center, it's non-profit and takes donations, which are tax-deductible. They take yarn, fabric, beads, little boxes, pens, paints--basically all kinds of little doo-dads that creative people can use for making stuff. And it's right up the street from me.
Eleanor O laden with donations outside Scrap. The red trailer is a craft gallery
SCRAP is located in a grungy old light-industrial space, filled with bins and racks of oddball stuff. I saw a barrel full of never-used wine corks, one of pre-printed small cardboard boxes in their unfolded-up state, rolls of silver mylar tape narrow enough to knit with, buckets of crayons sorted by color...a strange array, donated by end-users and industry alike, thematically linked only by "wow, that's kind of cool! I could make something out of that, I bet..."
Stuff you find at Scrap
One of the fun re-purposed object ideas in the Re-Boutique
The lady wearing cat-ears who accepted my yarn donation was happy to have it, and we spent a couple of pleasant minutes chit-chatting about the suddenly-gorgeous, perfect-for-bike-riding weather. A children's craft class was just getting underway so several moms and kids were filing in.
Later in the day I went to Free Geek, yet another non-profit where you donate stuff and they do good with it--in this case, electronic stuff.
I wasn't donating today, just looking for a particular adapter, which I found for three bucks. (It didn't actually serve my purpose once I got it home, so I guess I'll donate it back again.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.