Chapter
How Can You Reuse Household Goods, Clothes
and Toys?
Discussion Questions
Answer these questions with your partner.
1. Do you go to garage sales? What do you buy?
2. What do you do with clothes that are too small?
3. Have you bought anything from a newspaper
classified ad?
Vocabulary
1. charities (groups that help poor people or people in need)
2. consignment (to lend something to a store until they sell it for you)
3. donation (something you give to a charity)
4. donate (to give something to a charity)
5. garage sale (when people sell things they don’t need anymore, usually in
their garage, yard or driveway)
6. household goods (the things you have in your house)
7. classified ads (ads in the newspaper listing things people want to sell)
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Used household goods, clothes and toys can be reused and recycled.
Household goods are furniture, dishes, silverware, glassware, linens
and mattresses.
Clean, usable household goods, clothes and toys can be donated to many
organizations. Find out if your county has a Community Action Program that
takes donations. Churches often take donations. Depending upon where you
live, some organizations, like the Disabled Veterans and the Salvation Army, will
come to your home to pick up donations.
Look in the Yellow Pages telephone book under “thrift shops” or “furniture used,”
to find a place that takes donations. Some places only take furniture,
others only clothes, or toys. Call ahead to find out if they will take your items.
You can sell your clothes, and sometimes toys, on consignment. To sell on
consignment, you take the things you want to sell to a consignment store. The
store does not pay you until after it sells your things. They will keep 20% to
60% of the sale price. To find a store that will sell your things, look in the Yellow
Pages telephone book under “clothing consignment for resale.” Call them first,
to find out if they are able to take your things, before bringing your items in.
You can sell things yourself at a garage sale. It is a good idea to go to a few
garage sales first to see how they are handled. A few days before the garage
sale, take all of the items you no longer need, and set them up neatly in the
garage. Be sure to mark the sale price that you want for each item. It is a good
idea to put an ad in the paper that will tell other people the day, date, and time
of your sale. You will have to pay for the ad. Put some signs on the streets
near your home, so the people who are driving by will know about your sale.
You can also sell used items through the want ads in your local newspaper. You
will have to pay for the ad. Call your newspaper, tell them you want to place a
classified ad, and what you want the ad to say. Include your phone number.
Exercise 1
Put the letter of the definitions next to the correct word.
1. ______ classified ads
2. ______ household goods
3. ______ garage sale
4. ______ consignment
5. ______ to donate
Exercise 2
Answer the questions from the reading.
1. What kind of household goods, clothes and toys can be donated? ________
________________________________________________________________
2. What are the three ways you can sell furniture? ______________________
________________________________________________________________
3. What does a consignment store pay you for your items? _______________
________________________________________________________________
4. If I don’t want to sell things I no longer want, what can I do with them? ____
________________________________________________________________
5. Where can you find a place that will take donations? __________________
________________________________________________________________
A. to lend an item to a store who will sell
it for you, then you are paid part of the
sale price after the item is sold
B. newspaper advertisements about
things people are selling
C. to give away
D. a sale of household goods, toys and
clothes at a person’s house
E. furniture, dishes, beds, blankets
Exercise 3
These sentences are false. Cross out the wrong word or words, and
change these into true sentences.
1. Dirty, useless household goods can be devoted to many
organizations.
2. Some organizations will come to your school to pick up
donations.
3. Look in the Yellow Pages, under “Gift Shops” or “Furniture
Refinishing,” to find a place that will take your donations.
4. Some stores will sell things for you on conversation.
5. The consignment store will pay you before they sell your things.
6. A consignment store will keep 50% to 75% of the sale price.
7. You can also sell things yourself at a basement sale.
8. You could advertise your garage sale on TV.
9. You could also put fences on streets near your house.
Exercise 4
1. You are talking with a friend. Finish the following dialog.
You: I don’t know what to do with these clothes. The kids have
outgrown them.
Friend: Why don’t you ____________________________________
You: __How can I do that?
Friend: __It’s easy. First you _________________________________
__then_____________________________________________
You: __Thanks for the information.
Friend: __You’re welcome.
2. Repeat the same dialog starting with:
You: __I don’t know what to do with this old furniture now that we’ve
bought new stuff.
3. Repeat the same dialog starting with:
You: __I don’t know what to do with these old toys. The kids don’t
play with them anymore.
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