This is one of the coolest things I have heard about in a long time! A Give Back Box allows you to reduce the unwanted items in your life and give them to charity. It’s basically just what it sounds like. You use a box to give back. But it’s so much more. The Give Back Box gives every cardboard box a second life to help people in need. You reuse your online shipping boxes in which you received your purchases, or any other cardboard box you may have, to donate your unwanted household items, like gently used clothing, shoes etc. It won’t cost you a thing and you don’t even have to leave your house. They come to you to pick up the delivery!
Here’s how it works:
1. Open your box. Unpack your merchandise from the box and obtain the prepaid shipping label {print it HERE!}.
2. Pack your box. Fill the box with clothing and household goods you no longer need.
3. Send your box. Attach the pre-paid shipping label provided to the box and ship as usual (you can schedule a pickup, too!).
Isn’t that the coolest program, ever? Boxes don’t go to landfills, you get rid of unwanted items and de-cluttered, and charities receive much needed items. It’s a win, win, win!
So go find those boxes you got all your orders in and get more info HERE!
Delores says
This is awesome!
Linda says
Where does the stuff go? Will this adversely affect local organizations? I appreciate that the box gets reused, and that we can get rid of unused stuff, but I don’t want to hurt local churches and charitable organizations. Do you know??
Lisa L says
The box goes to a local Goodwill store. Depending on your zip code and which Goodwill stores participate, I live in Jersey City and my boxes go to a Goodwill in Astoria, Queens!
Linda Sand says
We keep a box in our coat closet in which we put things we are done with and gifts we never wanted. When it’s full we haul it to Goodwill. We’ve been doing this for years. True they don’t come pick it up but that just gives us an excuse to go to White Castle which is a treat we only get when taking a box to Goodwill.
Lisa L says
I’ve been doing this for awhile and I think it’s wonderful and so EASY!!. Living in a small apartment (and with a husband who likes to online shop) this is a great way to reuse, give back and keep clutter at bay in a small space. Thanks for sharing this and I hope lots of people use it.
DebbieB says
Printing my labels right now, thanks Mavis!
Cass says
As much as I LOVE this idea, I am not sure that I want my items to go to the Goodwill. After talking to those who work/have worked for Goodwill Industries, the “organization” is really a Corporation that makes money. The CEO makes over 3 mil a year. Yes, they claim they train handicapped folks for jobs, but there wasn’t one single handicapped person in either of the stores I have been in.
Before you climb on board the giving train you might want to Google Goodwill Industries. And make your own decision if you want to contribute to the CEO’s wealth.
The very instant they partner with Salvation Army (the first organization to help Katrina victims) or the local City mission I will be filling my boxes, to the brim, and sending them. (however I already donate to those organizations, so I really don’t need a shipping box….I just drop the stuff off on my way past once in a while)
Stacie says
Please be kind and remember that no all handicaps are visible. One may be considered handicap from having a congenital heart defect for lung disease. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean someone is not handicap. I don’t mean to call you out, but I do believe it is important to not judge someone just based upon physical appearance.
Stacie says
Or^^^ lung disease.
Cass says
I talked to the people working there. They had no handicap, visible or invisible. I work with Senior Citizens, so believe me, I am very aware of invisible handicaps…heart/lung disease, MS, etc. Those handicaps are the reason I have a job.
Goodwill Industries is just a lucky name picked by the millionaire owner. But please don’t take my word for it, research it yourself. Everything I know about the business I learned from talking to those who work there and online sites about “charities” (of which Goodwill is NOT listed as one)
Sharon H says
I still prefer my local church thrift shop for our donations. The boxes are recycled, my donations sold to profit the public programs (Mostly help for elderly in town with food, medication, bills, car maintence or other necessities.)
Darla says
Last year my teen-aged neighbor Emily asked me if I had anything to donate for her church’s annual yard sale. I gave her a box of items that I had bought, but had never used. I never return purchases. The proceeds pay for needy kids to go to camp for a week in summer. So now my unwanted items go in “Emily’s Box” until the spring yard sale, and my cardboard boxes go to line the bottom of my new raised garden beds or get recycled.