Women's Shelter Needs Plus-Sized Clothing -- Maryland people or anyone who wants to mail...
A coworker knows that I'm looking for smaller clothes, so she sent me a link to thrift store -- which I noticed was run by House of Ruth, a local women's shelter. So I looked at the donation guidelines and emailed their donation coordinator who said they ALWAYS need plus-sized clothing either for their thrift store or for the residents -- and they would accept plus-sized donations regardless of the season (they were soliciting spring clothes now, but I had black, navy and brown suits too).
So, since it seems that many of us have friends, relatives or have been personally affected by domestic violence, I would pass along this reminder to check their local shelters as well. Goodwill is a great organization too, but since I was not aware of this need, I wasn't sure if others were either!
Certainly, if anyone wants to put items in a box and send them my way, I'll be happy to pass them along! Their thrift shop is close to me, and I expect I'll be making a few trips!
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Do you have the address? I have tons that I could drive over. I am local.
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Sure -- I didn't include it at first because I wasn't sure it was correct. This is less than a mile from my house,and I go to this shopping center a lot, but I've never seen Ruth's Closet there! I guess I'll have to look harder!
Ruth's Closet
Valley Village Shopping Center
9131 Reisterstown Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117
410-581-9780
Starting weight: 260; Surgery Weight: 250; Month 1: -15.6; Month 2: -11.8; Month 3: -11.4; Month 4: -7.4 Month 5: -8.6; Month 6: -3; Month 7 -3.8; Month 8 -7; Month 9: stall; Month 10: -4.4; Month 11: - 2.6; Month 12:-3.4
I never realized that House of Ruth and Ruth's Closet were related...DUHHH @ me
my friends and I included Ruth's Closet in out 2nd hand clothing shopping tour... they had been before, I hadnt....Im delighted to donate to House of Ruth... I did another round of closet sweeping this weekend... its literally a sin how much clothes I have accumulated... Im going to give more of work suits & shoes, casual clothes to HoR and the more "churchy" suits to the shelter my church runs....
I even went thru my kids clothes... amazing how much they have grown this winter, so I even have a lot of stuff for Goodwill....
