Community Extensions

Now that represents a useful expedition.
Venturing out for the purpose of perusing
the goods offered for sale in a charity-based
emporium of donated materials whose
original owners see no further personal
need for. In one fell swoop, shoppers may
convey to the Sally Ann thrift shops objects
whose ownership they are prepared to
dispense with, in a gesture of altruistic
community largess. Far more gracious and
soul-satisfying than hawking still-useful
and desirable belongings at those irritatingly
ubiquitous neighbourhood garage sales.

Helping the environment by re-using rather
than discarding perfectly sound possessions.
Gadgets, electronics, toys, tools, kitchenwares,
books, videos, footwear, clothing, linens and
furniture can all be found in good and sometimes
mint condition. There, where sturdy North Face
outdoor gear can assume a second life, where
books by authors you're curious to read, but
hesitant to spring for, become affordable at
veritable bargain prices. The atmosphere
conducive to relaxed browsing, the clientele,
like those who donate, struck with similar values
of conscious communal enrichment.

Everyone profits from the exchange. Those who
donate, knowing their valuable discards will prove
useful to others, and those who purchase, with the
assumption that interminable land-fills are too
invested with waste that is not to be wasted. Most
of all, the exchanges offer huge monetary benefit
to a venerable charity whose care and compassion
offers hope and sustenance to those in society
whom the givers and the takers never quite see.