I drop off stuff regularly at Goodwill drive-thrus, and I’m not alone the average donor gives over 60 pounds a year, making our Goodwill stores the jewel in the nationwide crown.
I’ve now been in the back room of a couple Bins locations, witnessing first hand how it is that the Goodwill Industries of Columbia Willamette (GIWF) processes the roughly 235 millions of pounds of donations it receives yearly. I’ve been shopping at these Outlets for over ten years but it was only fairly recently that I’ve had the chance to look behind the curtain. I’ve found the modern day equivalent of Treasure Island. I’d inevitably run into someone with a metal detector and I envied them their ability to hone in on something valuable fairly quickly, and I’d share in their excitement as the machine would start to ping and zero in on a target. I was looking for some kind of lost treasure: a rare but intact shell, a piece of jewelry or perhaps a bottle with note inside. I’d often be found poking through driftwood, overturning seaweed clinging to strange objects, and occasionally digging under sand piles that looked unusually promising. Early each morning my family would walk the nearby beaches, and while my brother and sister would often scamper in the water, I’d have other plans. In the winter it would be in Naples, Florida and in the summer it’d be on the beaches in Cape Cod.īeach vacations would follow a daily pattern. Welcome to the Goodwill Outlets - otherwise known as “The Bins”.Īnd I’m going to show you what’s happening behind the scenes - and just a fraction of all the fun things my buddies and I’ve found there.Īs a kid, I spent endless hours beach-combing in the hopes of finding hidden treasures. Did you know that besides the dozens of Goodwill stores throughout our area there are a couple other locations in which even greater treasures exist, sometimes for well under a dollar?
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