Have extra soaps & shampoos from your travels?
#17
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Matre-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
A few places to donate these:
nerd, nobody has to ship these thousands of miles - though some may chose to send them off if they wish.
- Shelters or safe houses for abused or homeless persons
- Transitional living and halfway houses for recovering mentally ill or homeless
- Residences for elderly, disabled
- Red Cross / Crescent or others providing assistance and shelters in emergencies (e.g. house fires, disasters)
- Programs providing training and interview opportunities for those out of work
- Programs providing assistance to victims of sexual violence (see orknot2be above)
#18
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Programs: Hyatt Diamond, Fairmont Platinum, Aeroplan Diamond, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 18,686
The toiletries we usually just take for personal use.. If donating to say the food bank and other ministries, its purchased and dropped off into the box.. or a gift of money, so a charitable donation receipt is obtained.
Personally, we don't take stuff from the room and donate it.. but that's just us.
Personally, we don't take stuff from the room and donate it.. but that's just us.
#19
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: SFO
Programs: AA ExPlat,EX-UA 1K, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat,
Posts: 12,212
The toiletries we usually just take for personal use.. If donating to say the food bank and other ministries, its purchased and dropped off into the box.. or a gift of money, so a charitable donation receipt is obtained.
Personally, we don't take stuff from the room and donate it.. but that's just us.
Personally, we don't take stuff from the room and donate it.. but that's just us.
#20
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Programs: Hyatt Diamond, Fairmont Platinum, Aeroplan Diamond, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 18,686
ime.. walking down the halls there are carts with low hanging fruit.. in those instances, robbing Peter to give to the poor..
I mean I'm all for charity.. and don't want to mix the generous nature of what we're all capable of..
#21
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Anywhere I need to be.
Programs: OW Emerald, *A Gold, NEXUS, GE, ABTC/APEC, South Korea SES, eIACS, PP, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 16,046
Sometimes I take these from the amenity kits and donate them, as I already have many of the supplies for myself.
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: n.y.c.
Posts: 13,981
#23
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Either at the shooting range or anywhere good beer can be found...
Posts: 50,968
Another option than those listed by JDiver is to donate them to an area VA hospital. Ladies in a group that I facilitate are doing a project to help veterans, and the VA hospital in our area has requested that as part of that, we try to collect these items to create almost like care packages for those at the hospital.
#24
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Matre-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Excellent idea! And even the local VA clinic and Veterans resource centers are often happy to receive these for some of the folks who may currently be down and out - the war in Iraq is over, but some who are returning will need our help.
Another option than those listed by JDiver is to donate them to an area VA hospital. Ladies in a group that I facilitate are doing a project to help veterans, and the VA hospital in our area has requested that as part of that, we try to collect these items to create almost like care packages for those at the hospital.
#25
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SFO
Programs: UAL SPG Hyatt
Posts: 563
The local community services organization where I live specifically asks for these hotel sized toiletries. I carry a small ziploc bag with me and I take what is set out in the room. Every few months, I drop off a large box with them. From my conversations with the center, they repackage these into mini "kits" for the seniors and low-income families they serve.
#26
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: ONT
Programs: AA Gold, WN A-, UA S, HH ♦, IHG Spire, Hertz Prez O, TSA Disparager
Posts: 2,159
Oh don't give the TSA any new ideas of how they could "protect" us.
#27
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Obvious
Programs: UA Silver, going for Gold this year
Posts: 139
I have read about both ways, that some hotels take the half-used bottles and refill them, and that some hotels throw out all opened bottles, for hygiene reasons.
I'm not sure which way I like better, using a bottle that's been used by 30 people before me, or all the waste from throwing out so many tiny bottles.
I think I'm leaning toward re-use.
I'm not sure which way I like better, using a bottle that's been used by 30 people before me, or all the waste from throwing out so many tiny bottles.
I think I'm leaning toward re-use.
#28
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Programs: Hyatt Diamond, Fairmont Platinum, Aeroplan Diamond, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 18,686
I have read about both ways, that some hotels take the half-used bottles and refill them, and that some hotels throw out all opened bottles, for hygiene reasons.
I'm not sure which way I like better, using a bottle that's been used by 30 people before me, or all the waste from throwing out so many tiny bottles.
I think I'm leaning toward re-use.
I'm not sure which way I like better, using a bottle that's been used by 30 people before me, or all the waste from throwing out so many tiny bottles.
I think I'm leaning toward re-use.
#29
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Shanghai
Programs: BAEC (Gold), PC (Plat), HH (Gold), MR (Gold)
Posts: 2,729
#30
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Programs: Hyatt Diamond, Fairmont Platinum, Aeroplan Diamond, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 18,686