Donating Travel Stuff

Frank II, we've taken bags to the usual suspects - Goodwill, Salvation Army, Disabled Veterans - but I understand that shelters for women find luggage particular useful.

If you know of a battered women's shelter near you, you might see if they would want them. Most women who stay there leave their home very quickly and have minimal clothing and luggage for themselves and their children, so that might be helpful to them.

And of course, there is always Goodwill or St. Vincent de Paul.

Often places that service foster children will take any bags in good shape. Kids often don’t have luggage to take their things from one place to another and use garbage bags.

Thanks for the ideas of woman's shelters for bags as well as for foster kids. I hadn't thought of that.

Over the years when we traveled we would collect travel size items such as soap, shampoo, body gel, lotion etc. AAA has a “soap for hope” program that collects items for women’s shelters. It’s a wonderful program. They also accept luggage.

Thanks Frank Il for donating your items. We recently helped a relative who gave away similar items to Goodwill.

Yes, our women’s shelter was happy to have my bags/backpacks when I cleaned out closets 2 years ago. I got the idea from someone else on the forum back then.

Frank, when I donate items like luggage, there’s the women’s shelters as mentioned - also any small zippered cases that work for toiletry kits are appreciated along with hotel shampoo/soap. I try to add a cute stuffed animal inside suitcases, if you happen to also have any in your home, for their kids.