Good morning friends!! WE HIT *100,000* TOTAL ITEMS GIVEN AWAY this week! Woo! After only 18 months doing our thing… Wild… To put this into perspective, it took us over two months to give away a total of 1,000 items when we first launched, then about a year to hit a total of 50,000, and …
I woke up this morning to a most unexpected but joyous email! Fellow fan of The Closet – Rachael – used AI to make us a theme song to rock out to! Haha… Did not see that one coming but it is fabulous and has had my head rocking to it all morning long š …
Walter has a new paint job! And it was all hand made by the very same people we help week in and week out – our friends on the streets! Iād been trying for months to come up with a good way to get Walter freshened up, but each time I went down a path …
Filed under “other turns we didn’t expect to take” with this project, lol – we now accept collectibles and antiques as donations! Why, you say? So we can fund raise without actually having to fund raise š This idea came up randomly last month when we were anonymously donated a couple silver spoons that turned …
Want to help out, but don’t have any clothes or money to donate?! Consider running a Drive for us! š Drives are a great way to get involved, especially with youth groups or clubs, schools, churches, or even your own children : ) Here are a number of ideas that have worked in the past, …
We were recently on the FXBG Neighbors podcast! Check it out! EP #131 Free Clothes, Stronger Community Here’s the TL;DR š ******* “What happens when a cityās extra shirts, shoes, and hoodies become a lifeline instead of landfill? We sit with the founder of Fredericksburg Free Closet to share how a donated cargo van, a …
We are this week’s “Hidden Gem” on country radio station 93.3 WFLS! They hooked us up with a free advertisement that will air all weekend long to get the word out on the closet š Super cool and super fun to record, thanks y’all! They also wrote up a cool blog post all about the …
One of my favorite things about this project is figuring out how to give away the most clothes in the most efficiently way possible. And this new collaboration with Fredericksburg United Methodist Church is a beautiful example of this! They reached out a couple of weeks ago asking if weād be interested in adding clothes …
This is a partnership that just felt meant to be š I had met up with a donor in the Wegmans parking lot to pick up some clothes, and thought Iād just walk into Uptown Cheapskate and see what they were about after hearing so much buzz about them. I really didnāt have any intentions …
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I was looking through my spreadsheet the other day (yes, Iām a nerd!), and realized that the very first pile of clothes we gave away was on February 18th – exactly a year ago today!! Now back then it was just a fun little experiment we were trying with no clue it would turn into …