Cares Cleans Out The Closet

After we got back home from our Christmas vacation, we found we had ourselves a problem. We just couldn't find any space in our closet for the new, beautiful, hand-knit Christmas sweater we got from our elderly aunt. No question, this sweater is a keeper (reindeer were hot on the fall runways in Milan last year) so our only choice is a judicious weeding of the current contents of our tiny closet.

Just our luck, though, is that there are some good options for making better use of our no-longer-needed items.

First, Buffalo Exchange is going to get our old mink and fox fur coats. What? We used to live in the tundra - we needed them. Through April 22nd, you can drop off your fur (or faux fur) items at any Buffalo Exchange and they'll be given to the Humane Society for use in their animal rehabilitation programs. From the HSUS website, a description that slays us:

The furs are cut into an appropriate size for the animal, whether it be a chipmunk, raccoon, squirrel, or opossum, and placed inside the animal's enclosure. The furry blanket becomes a surrogate mother to orphaned animals, reducing stress and giving comfort....Some animals adopt a piece of fur as a playmate, jumping on it and wrestling with it.

Darling.

With contributions from SFist Lisa

Next, we're going to take our non-fur coats (Did we mention tundra?) over to Oakland and drop them off at the One Warm Coat drop-off event - gotta hurry though since that's just until the 15th.

Finally, we just have to accept that no, we can't wear it again and are taking our bridesmaid's dresses (that's SFist - always the bridesmaid, never the bride) to the cleaners in preparation for the Princess Project drop-offs happening March 11 through the 18th (locations to be announced). They'll also be taking accessory donations but how can we bear to part with any of our cute little purses!? Well, we'll just have to suck it up, won't we?

What do you have in your closet? No, we don't mean that way.