Updated: To All PTA's: School Supplies, Used Workbooks, Used Mad Libs Needed For Adult ESL Students

Please gather up and donate any used textbooks, workbooks for the adult ESL students. They'll definitely be able to re-use them. Please donate used, Mad Libs, and board games also. The Goodwill and all thrift stores continually lack donations, as you spring clean. Some of the trash items could be appreciated for quilting, crafts, or economical, educational supplies for the impoverished.

During spring cleaning, I found myself throwing away things like new ribbons, old, 1/3-length pencils, that could have been resharpened, and were still quite holdable for an adult hand. As long as they're a quarter of the original length still, they'd be greatly appreciated at all thrift stores. The poor are more willing to assist the poor, in every community.

***The old dry-cleaner, wire hangers are still needed at the thrift stores. They could become a wire wreath frame, front door, dried lavender, garland frame, tomato towers, copper wire, gazing ball sculpture for a garden, or Easter egg basket with basket weaving skills, ribbons, and quilting rags.***

***Habitat For Humanity needs all types of home improvement donations, including solar, landscaping lights that only need new bulbs.***

If possible, the latchkey children all need new shoes, and school clothes. Please see if the local stores can arrange a store manager's discount on all sale/clearance items for all WIC/EBT/Free-and reduced-lunch kids, including at thrift stores. Try to get a list of names to the school principals, regarding families who are ineligible for those programs, yet in crisis.