So it had been awhile since I had said the peace. love. swap mission statement out loud - and when I did the last blog post, it made really made me realize that our 3 main goals ( and pretty much in this order ) are to keep things out of landfills, donate as much as possible to charity and produce fun/family friendly swaps. It occurred to me that I could measure the amount of swaps we have produced - 60+ since 2009 - but I haven't measured what we have kept out of landfills and most important.. how much we have donated to charities. Well if we just average the amount of stuff that comes in and goes out - we have easily donated 45,000+ items to charity. This includes baby, kid & maternity clothing and gear, books, shoes, movies, accessories, etc. Which means we have easily swapped 65,000+ items ... this is amazing!!! I wonder how much of this stuff would have ended up in a landfill?? We all did this together!! And, it's only been two years - and.... we are only just getting started. We will easily double that number of charitable donations by the end of the year. On top of that, some of our swaps are doubling as fundraisers, so a portion of the proceeds are being donated to different causes as well. I am so happy to be a part of this with all the moms that organizing swaps and all the volunteers - to actually see my vision come to fruition. I love the fact that every month we give something back to our communities.
See you soon,
Until then
happy swapping
meg
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