Live, Learn, and Pass Stuff On

Through selling some of our furniture online, we met this woman who finds cheap or free furniture and items online and then gives them to various charities, like women's shelters, animal shelters, etc. in the area. She was happy to take a lot of our random stuff - cat carriers, household and kitchen items, and even our crib. She's very sweet, but also loves to talk-talk-talk, and if you have time to listen, she would probably tell you her life story. I think we've heard half of it in our three encounters with her. 

She has already told us that some of our items have gone to good use for people who really need them. One of our cat carriers went to a man who has one leg, another went to be used for these two rescued kittens at a vet's office. Our crib will go to a charity that has a small storage space where they keep such items to be used by people who are being relocated to/from temporary housing from shelters. Our grocery cart is going to a woman who is starting over after being in a women's shelter for several months. A lot of the stuff we got second-hand is now being passed on to other families - we had our turn in the cycle and now it's somebody else's. We have already put several items out on the curb that have been taken quickly, to my surprise. I didn't know if anyone would take our old cat-feeder that was half-full of dry cat food and it was gone in an hour.