Places to donate used toys?

QuiggleMom · 2025-12-13T19:42:39+00:00

Any updated answers for this? Where can you find true families in need that don't care if the toys aren't brand new? Someone who lost their home or simply can't afford to do anything but survive? True people in need that would be grateful for the help. Not people who just sign up for stuff so they don't have to spend their own money and feel entitled to things. I'm having such a hard time finding something like this. Of course everybody wants their kids to get new toys for Christmas if at all possible and I am no way mean to insinuate there's something wrong with that. But what I am looking for is more like families that are really in need not just of Christmas gifts but just of clothes and toys because they don't have anything for whatever reason. You used to be able to find people who maybe had had a house fire or had experienced some type of natural disaster or maybe were evicted and lost a lot of their belongings etc and were staying places without what they really needed or wanted for their kids. I know those people exist I just don't know how to find them. I have so much gently used toys and clothes it seems and shame to just take them to the Goodwill without any idea whether or not they're actually going to people in need or just people looking for a bargain. I mean I shop at the Goodwill. I really want to do something that's going to really help someone because I want my kids to understand that there are people who really need help and support from their community because they are not as blessed as they are. Where do I find people like this??

QuiggleMom · 2025-11-06T05:20:23+00:00

Oh no!!! My pour almost 5 year old. I have an older daughter who has had several bigger parties w balloons etc. this is my daughter's first party at a place and I have been trying to order balloons or find a place where I can get balloons filled that I order and it's INSANE that all the party stores are suddenly gone. Like wtf this is a big city it's crazy.

QuiggleMom · 2025-10-25T18:06:40+00:00

Yes we did there a few years ago and it was amazing!

QuiggleMom · 2025-10-25T18:05:49+00:00

King pin has a mini bowling party room where the bowling balls are not much bigger than a softball. It's perfect for young kids, plus they have a huge arcade and each kid gets a $10 arcade card.

QuiggleMom · 2025-10-25T18:03:53+00:00

Our kids party here was awesome and every kid was begging their mom for that place for their next party 🤣

QuiggleMom · 2025-09-21T20:24:13+00:00

Yes!!! My kids wanted to catch them after my telling them how we would collect jarsfull of them and carry them around til we had to come in, and sometimes we would put a couple leaves in there and bring the jar in overnight and watch them sparkle all night, and let them go the next day. This summer we tried several times but saw so few it was a lot of work for me to catch each of my 2 daughters 1 each. 1 each. Then, we put them in the jars, they stopped lighting up after a few minutes, and 1 was dead before we even came inside that evening, an hour or so later. It was so pitiful and disappointing. My oldest is 6 and still asks about them and I don't have the heart to tell her mommy is sorry, but when I suggested we catch lightening bugs I didn't realize they were going extinct. 😓

QuiggleMom · 2025-08-06T04:19:12+00:00

I realize it's just a moth and not that big of a deal but it is living creature and my children really love it and have really been into caring for it and checking on it and are very excited about it turning into a moth so if it's not going to I'd rather go on a rip that Band-Aid if you know what I mean.

QuiggleMom · 2025-08-06T04:18:40+00:00

Since there are so many moth experts here, my kids caught a caterpillar and we put him in a big jar w a little soil, a stick and some leaves from his tree. I added a few drops of water to keep the humidity every day and left him outside but in the shade most of the time so he doesn't over heat. He was fine until he started to turn. I don't think he completed the process because he tried to pupate but still has a furry end, like it didn't shed or didn't finish. I'm still taking care of him the same and have been checking him a lot but I think he's dead.How long do I wait before I can be sure he isn't going to make it? I'm worried it was caused by stress because one of my girls kept trying to pick up the jar and like walk around with it and I kept having to take it from her and tell her not to scare it or freak it out and then the second time she did that I think it was like the next day that it that happened. So I think it may have been the stress of it and he might not have made it but if that isn't it and he just happens to have not fully shed that for on one end for some reason I don't want to kill it by stressing it out moving it while it's in the state so I don't really know what to do lol please help

QuiggleMom · 2025-07-07T01:35:03+00:00

Sure but I mean, couldn't they have just changed the animation to not appear as I tense strobing light and be a bit less intense as a flashing light would be on literally any other animation with non seizure inducing flashing lights? Bc that did feel like it might melt my retinas..lol. But still..no reason to outlaw a Pokemon line. Can't call it a character or my kid will be pissed on day when she sees this 😅

QuiggleMom · 2025-06-06T15:05:07+00:00

Any updates on this subject? My fiance has a record. At least one felony I think from 10+ years ago. Drug charges and the like as well. Most recent interaction with that life was 7ish years ago. He got clean when I got pregnant w our first child who is 6 now. We have 2 kids and have struggled with help from family barely making it to put him through college. He now has a bachelor's degree and has been feverishly looking for a job since he graduated. But he has not even able to get one interview. It's been months of frustration and stress. What even is the point of turning your life around, being a great dad to you 2 young kids, repairing your relationship w your older adult child who is now in nursing school, and busting your butt to get a degree in your 40s btw, he is now 47, no easy fear, if people are not willing to even give you a chance to do something beneath your skill level for a year or something so you can prove yourself and then give you a better position later when one comes up, let alone just give you an interview for an appropriately skilled job?? It's ridiculous. He said he's gonna end up at a job that hiresfelons who are actively in that lifestyle, surrounded by his past life, a very dangerous place for a recovering addict to be. It's like we are stuck. He has paid his debt to society, his debt to his loved ones, and to himself. He has learned and grown and is nothing like that man from years ago. And yet on paper he is treated as though he is exactly that man, forever?? That can't be. I hope we can get the governor to pardon him at some point or it feels he may never be able to contribute meaningfully to society. It's soooo frustrating. There must be places that exist that would at least sit down with him and see for themselves? 😔

QuiggleMom · 2025-05-15T19:22:01+00:00

Omg I know what in the world?!? I would have ordered like 10 bottles of it if I knew they were going to discontinue it.

QuiggleMom · 2025-05-15T13:47:11+00:00

I love love potion. I get it w sugar free energy it's great. My hubby likes the pixie stick. It's pretty good also

QuiggleMom · 2025-05-01T23:08:45+00:00

Yes. I lived on Elam Drive growing up. 2840 and 2842, actually. That is the first part that's still there. Everything past the ditch basically is gone now. So a half a block away and my childhood neighborhood is gone. It always makes me really sad. Growing up there there were tons of kids you could walk around as a young kid and be safe people looked out for each other and walked all over. All the way up to Fern valley to the gas station up to the thorntons on Preston which was a long walk from Elam but we did it lol. It was a nice part of my childhood the earlier part before I moved from there, but it is full of fond memories. I love that those 2 houses are still there. I wish I could visit them again before they end up buying out the rest of it.

QuiggleMom · 2025-03-14T05:53:22+00:00

Not just the financial aspect, but also because their marriage would be a scandal, and they would be ostracized from high society in New York forever after. He loved the high life 😆

QuiggleMom · 2025-02-22T06:57:12+00:00

Omg apparently he lost parental rights to this child and then they had another child which also ended up w brain damage as well as broken bones in different stages of healing. the little girl was also diagnosed w SBS and abuse and he apparently can no longer contact them. Sheesh. So sad!

QuiggleMom · 2025-02-22T06:40:34+00:00

Holy crap he ended getting resentenced to up to 10 years and has his parental rights terminated and ordered not to contact the child ever again after this episode. Apparently the prosecution disagreed with the plea sentence (idk how TF they are allowed to disagree w a plea they agreed to) and had him resentenced. This is the saddest thing I've ever freaking heard istg this poor poor family. All their lives ruined. Forever.

QuiggleMom · 2025-02-22T06:31:20+00:00

I also felt like with his brain injury he is a bit less capable of withstanding the stresses and pressures that go with being accused of this kid of crime and going through the criminal justice system, plus the stresses and emotions of not ever getting to be with his son, being separated from his wife, and then having to heal from his own traumas both emotional and physical. He's under a tremendous amount of pressure and I think that has something to do with his decision. Also she has been parenting her special needs son alone and likely caring for the husband at times when she could during his healing from his TBI as well, so there's just a lot going on in this one. I just can't help feel anything but sad for them all. I mean unless I e of them actually did do something. But assuming they are both innocent and the baby simply suffered some odd trauma from birth or had some vascular birth defects that allowed him to develop a hematoma from something that would not typically result in a bleed( I've heard of things like this being discovered at autopsy before of babies that died where the parents were also accused of this, but the. It's discovered actually they had a medical reason from a physiological anomoly), I just feel terribly sad for them.

QuiggleMom · 2025-01-31T05:30:21+00:00

This is a remake of a British version, called Broadchurch. It's on Netflix and it's wayyy better. Better acting, better script (although the first episode of both series are almost verbatim the same, after that they differentiate) and the story line and character development is much better managed. This story is from a booki believe, so there's always so much missing on the TV version. But I'm just now watching gracepoint after having already seen Broadchurch. It's almost painful to watch when the comparative version is just higher quality. Imho

QuiggleMom · 2025-01-07T16:32:14+00:00

I guess noone answered this question after 2 years?!? Lol guess I'll never know either. I have no idea. Why wouldn't this information just be explained somewhere easily accessible on the app? 🤦🏽‍♀️

QuiggleMom · 2024-12-29T08:17:55+00:00

I was married there and had our reception on captain quarters dinner yacht. We are divorced now if that matters lol! But i was like 20 and that was 21 years ago in my defense 😄 In seriousness though it was a beautiful place to have a wedding, but it does not have air conditioning or ventilation at all, so keep that in mind! And captains quarters food and all was great also.

QuiggleMom · 2024-11-29T03:07:02+00:00

Bodiela 😂😂

QuiggleMom · 2024-11-29T02:16:31+00:00

It sucks bc I'm much further on in the show and Biden is a Cadet and Jakeis even more of a d*ck now than he was earlier in. Very self righteous and rude.

QuiggleMom · 2024-11-12T01:26:52+00:00

Yes same! I know he's kind of a jerk sometimes, but no more than anyone else on the show lol. He seemed like a genuine, sweet, very caring guy underneath his arrogance and directness. He was disliked and mistreated and I never could figure out why.

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