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How (and where) to donate unwanted Christmas presents
If you give (or receive) a gift that misses the mark, returning the item is the natural thing to do. After all, return policies are pretty awesome these days.
However, if you decide to make a bigger impact with your gift — an item that you’ve probably survived without just fine for the last year anyway — why not donate it?
Why You Should Think About Donating an Unwanted Christmas Gift
- If you donate your unwanted gifts, you’ll decrease clutter. Cutting clutter has emotional benefits that I don’t understand, but I feel better when my life and environment are clear.
- Your item might be useful to someone else. Many times, I have kept items I didn’t really need because I might need them sometime. But I find it easier to donate or sell items if I imagine those items making someone else’s life easier or better … you know, instead of taking up space in my spare closet.
- Improve your community. Along with being useful to someone else or an organization, your donation may improve your community. How? By giving your fellow community members something they really need or letting a community organization raise money with your gift that could help them operate other community-boosting programs.
- You may be able to deduct donations on your taxes. According to the IRS, you may deduct certain donations if you’ve given to qualified organizations. You must maintain documentation of this donation, however.
- You’re giving something. If you weren’t able to donate as much as you wanted to in 2015, this is an opportunity to give a little something without, shall I say, much of an investment from you. If the gift had been given to you, you didn’t invest anything at all. But, I still think it counts as giving because you could have returned the item for cash or returned it for another item.
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