Have Stuff to Donate to Perennial?
Thank you for thinking of Perennial! We accept donations of reusable materials and supplies that support our creative reuse shop, classes, and workshops.
Donation hours are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 11 AM–5 PM.
We have limited space, so we’re currently accepting only the items listed below. Please review the list before bringing in a donation.
Our Priority Donations
These are the materials we need most right now:
- Beads
- Fabric
- Yarn
What We’re Looking For
Wood + Wooden Items
- Wooden cigar boxes
- Wooden clothespins with springs
- Wooden picture frames of any size
- 2″ × 4″ wood longer than 3 feet
- 2″ × 6″ wood longer than 3 feet
- Any 1″-thick wood longer than 3 feet
- 4″ × 4″ posts
- Plywood, OSB, chipboard, MDF, and other panel products in pieces 12″ × 12″ or larger
- Walnut or cherry wood, any thickness, at least 12″ long
- Other hardwoods, any thickness, at least 12″ long
- Fence pickets
Fabric + Textiles
- Fabric larger than 1 yard
- White cotton bedsheets
- Burlap
- Lace
- Leather
- Linen and canvas
- Monk’s cloth
- White or light-colored 100% silk
- Yarn, embroidery floss, and sewing thread
- Upholstery fabric larger than 1 yard
Plant Materials
- Logwood chips and sawdust
- Osage orange chips and sawdust
- Dried coreopsis, cosmos, and marigolds
Used Tools + Craft Supplies
- Scissors
- Crochet hooks
- Large-eyed sewing and darning needles
- Sewing tools and notions
- Sewing needles and pins
- Jewelry tools
- Knitting needles
- Hole punches
- Rubber stamps
Used Hand Tools
- Pliers
- Screwdrivers
- Wrenches
- Hammers
- Carpentry tools, including squares and rulers
- Handsaws
- Measuring tapes
- Corded power tools only: grinders, drills, saws, Dremels, sanders, and similar tools. No battery-powered tools, please.
Hardware
- Hinges
- Drawer pulls and knobs
- Washers of any size
Kitchen Items
- Metal or glass measuring cups
- Round metal cake pans
- Metal measuring spoons
Glass + Ceramics
- Stained glass sheets or colorful, flat glass scraps (no bottles)
- Tiny glass jars with secure lids, 1–2 oz, with labels removed
- Fishbowls and glass containers suitable for terrariums (no aquariums or tanks)
- Tiles and broken tiles without adhesive
- Decorative ceramic teacups and saucers (no plain white ones)
Paper
- Watercolor paper
- Heavyweight paper
- Construction paper
- Hardback books with spines less than 1″ wide
- Scrapbooking paper
- Graph paper
- Unused copy paper and blank letterhead
Miscellaneous
- Beads
- Sequins
- Buttons
- Embroidery hoops
- Keys and key rings
- Large cutting mats (24″ × 36″)
- Leather belts
- Leather
- Terracotta pots
Wax
- Beeswax
- Soy wax
What We Cannot Accept Right Now
Due to limited space and current inventory, we cannot accept:
- Unfinished projects
- Plastic food containers
- Fabric scraps
- Furniture
- Plastic storage bins
- Office supplies, with the exception of the paper items listed above
- Items with strong odors
We’re also temporarily full on books, magazines, and T-shirts. Please hold onto these items for now.
If you have an item you think we’d be interested in, but it’s not on our current donation list, you can email a picture to shop@perennialstl.org to see if we can use it.
Got something to give away that we can’t use? Check out our Resources page for other local organizations that may be able to take your stuff.
Remember the number one way to keep things out of the landfill is to reduce our consumption. For tips, check out this great infographic How to Get Rid of Throwaway Culture.
