Efficient Resources


Free organizing forms and tools

  • Travel Packing List [PDF] Blank Travel Packing List [PDF] Travel Packing List [Excel]
    Never again, worry if you remembered to pack something. I created this list for my own personal use many years ago. Friends and family that have seen it have often asked for a copy for themselves. Now it is here for all to use. Customizing Password: efficientyou

Donations

  • Efficient You Donation Sheet [Microsoft Excel]

    Giving to Charity benefits everyone. It allows you to rid yourself of items you no longer need or want, while recycling them to those that do have needs. Like my travel packing list, I created this spreadsheet for my own personal use many years ago. I have shared it with friends and family as well.

    To determine your donation values, check out http://www.satruck.com


Charities

  • Everyone feels better when donating their unwanted items to charity. Here are some of my favorite charities.

  • http://www.rcskids.org
    Mission Statement/Vision Statement
    Rebekah Children’s Services is dedicated to promoting social, emotional and physical wellbeing of children and families.
  • http://www.ehclifebuilders.org
    Mission Statement/Vision Statement
    EHC LifeBuilders is passionately committed to ending homelessness.
    We believe in the power of community and the support that it brings.
    We believe in the strength of the people we serve.
    And we believe that there will be an end to homelessness.
    We are life builders.
  • http://www.sacredheartcommunityservice.org
    Vision & Mission Statement
    Our vision is a community united to ensure that every child and adult is free from poverty. Our mission is to change lives and impact poverty by providing essential services, offering tools for self-sufficiency, and ministering with dignity, compassion and respect. We engage the community and inspire volunteers to love, serve and share.
  • http://www.wardrobe.org
    The Wardrobe for Opportunity Mission
    Wardrobe for Opportunity is a volunteer-based, nonprofit organization that provides professional clothing and career support to low-income jobseekers so they can secure employment and become economically self-sufficient.
  • http://www.cityteam.org/sanjose/
    Pledge of Accountability
    CityTeam Ministries pledges to do everything possible to help the poor and disadvantaged. That's been our commitment since we began this ministry. It hasn't changed. CityTeam Ministries has a strong 44-year record of strong financial integrity. We are supported by voluntary contributions from friends like you, including individuals, corporations, churches, and foundations.

Recycling

  • You can recycle more than just cans and paper!

  • http://www.usedcardboardboxes.com/
    Save Time, Save Money, Save Trees™
    That's the drive behind UsedCardboardBoxes.com
  • http://www.letmeplay.com/reuseashoe
    Nike's Shoe Recycling Program
    'Turn your old kicks into new places to play your game'.
  • http://www.patagonia.com/
    Common Threads Garment Recycling
    'Through Common Threads we can transform your unusable garments into new clothing, which gets us closer to a long-standing company goal of taking full responsibility for every product we make'.
  • http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/about/soul/recycling.html
    Staples Soul Recycling
    'makes it easy for customers to recycle e–waste by simply bringing their used computers, monitors, laptops, and desktop printers, faxes and all–in–ones to any U.S. Staples store'.
  • http://www.cdrecyclingcenter.com
    CD Recycling Center
    'Each year, billions of compact discs (CDs, CDr’s and DVDs) are produced, while millions of them are reaching our landfills and incinerators. Why are they not getting recycled? Because most people don’t know what to do with them!'

Other Points of Interest

  • www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/
    Affluenza:
    A one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption.
  • www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/
    Buy Nothing Day:
    This November 28th, environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in as many as 65 countries will hit the streets for a 24-hour consumer fast in celebration of the 16th annual Buy Nothing Day.

Newsletters

  • December 2008: New Services & Products, Green Businesses, Recommendations & Contributions, Organizational Tips. [PDF]
  • November 2007: Buy Nothing Day, Beating Affluenza, Clutter-Free Gift Giving, Party Favors. [PDF]


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