Used clothing is something that just about every single one of us has. After all, the average person today is actually quite likely to consume more than double what someone living in this same country two decades in the past would have. This means that the average person is consuming, on average, nearly 70 new garments and seven new pairs of shoes over the course of just one year. This can be seen quite clearly when we look into the fact that the average woman of today actually has a total of around 30 outfits in her closet. In a…
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The textiles industry is one of the biggest in the entire world, as everyone needs clothing to wear for work, everyday life, special occasions, and anything else. A lot of clothes are manufactured and bought and sold every day, especially in the United States, but often, not enough older clothes are donated to charitable causes, such as military families or low income families in need. Helping families in need involves donations such as food and clothes, and if more Americans were to contribute to textile donations and sent their old garments to used clothing pick up, many more families in…
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Giving to charity is incredibly common here in the United States. Giving to charity can make you feel good and it can help the community in which you live in as well as the world at large. In fact, it’s so popular among the American people that up to nearly ninety five and a half percent of all people in this country will give to charity over the course of one year. But finding the money to give to charity is not always a particularly easy thing to do. After all, sometimes it can be hard for people just to…
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Many people in the United States regularly donate items to charity. In fact, 95.4% of people in the United States take part in some form of charitable giving. It’s understandable to wonder what needs to be done to ensure that your items are accepted by a charity. With that in mind, here are three tips to follow while preparing charitable donations. Wrap Potentially Fragile Items Many homeowners have fragile items that are only collecting dust. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to consider donating these items to a charity that offers support for military families. Considering that, it’s a wise idea…
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We have all seen the license plates, those ones with the small purple emblem in the corner, but how many people actually know what is a purple heart in the military? There ois no denying the fact that serving ones country by joining the armed forces is one of the most brave and trying acts of service. Considering the current climate of the world it is seems now more than ever that conflict is not a matte of if, but when. Consider the current and long running instability in the middle east. If it was not for the brave men…
