Last year we gave over 140 shirt to the local shelter. Being they were T-shirts and it was the middle winter they kind of looked at us funny and suggested we take them to good will. We did… but they were not excited to get them either.
So we have about the same amount. Between free shirt Fridays and all the stuff companies send me we have a TON of shirts and other stuff. We also have a lot of gadgets and stuff people send us to. I think we have over a DOZEN company branded flip mino’s I have not even opened. I mean if you guys saw all this stuff you would be amazed.
I have a couple ideas but would love to hear your suggestions!
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You could sell the shirts – “Buy a shirt wore by shoe” or start a contest – “Subscribe and win a shirt”.
That is good….give away shirts to lucky winners who commented.. Means not for 1 or 2 people..since you have many give away for double digit numbers
I would love to get a flip mino’s , Can i have one Please.
I’d love to take one of those Flip Mino’s off your hands. My camera doesn’t take video.
Me too, I would love a Flip! I think you should give them away to all of us loyal commenters
Also, you can auction them off on eBay for example and give the money to charity
I’m still trying to decide if a Flip Mino is worth it or not.
Hey.. That is a brilliant idea!
I second that, I could really use one of those Flip mino’s. I have digital SLR but it doesn’t do video
Thats a great idea, i was actually going to say this.
You know most people will love this contest, but that if Schoe doesn’t mind to sharing it
Why don’t you wait til summer to give them to charity? That seems like the logical suggestion to me.
Fine, giving them to charity is a nice suggestion looking into the fact that it makes you give back to humanity while God keep blessing you
Why should charities be picky about what they’re getting? I’m a bit disgusted that they’d be upset to get t-shirts.
I guess Florida’s weather is always acceptable for t-shirts…
They have limited storage space, so in places that actually have winters they often cannot accept summery items. This is also one of the few times of year when many people give, so their limit space is even more valuable.
I see what you’re saying, but Doyle has a point. At the same time, clothing is clothing. Better to have a t-shirt than nothing on your back at all.
Hah tom.. I pretty sure thats worth the wait..
You could do contests to give out free shwag. Like “Super-Shoemoney Sundays”
People have to do something that benefits you and you send something. Obviously something that justifies shipping.
contest is another great way of getting them out to people while you earn more readership throught it. but if you dont want to do that the stick to the comment above
I think you’re on to something. However, considering that Shoe gives these shirts away to charities, why not make people do something for their local charity (like a simple advertisement post or some action) and Shoe picks his favorite and sends a random Friday shirt? The downside tho is that it takes a lot of work.
Could auction off the minos for charity?
The charities would love the money and the companies behind the minos (those who’ve branded them) would love the positive exposure (thus allowing you to be in good books
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I work for a company in the UK that has a charity raffle each Christmas. Often our clients will give us nice bottles of wine, sometimes DVD players or vouchers etc.
Anything of any value you should donate to a company so they can raffle or auction off in a similar way.
Or instead, you could sell them on eBay and donate the money to charity.
Up here the public schools are facing major budget problems. I bet the media department of a school wouldn’t mind getting some equipment.
Having just finished Year 12, I have a first hand understanding of their desperation. I very much second this idea!
You clearly need to suspend Free T-Shirt Friday.
It’s time to start Sweater Wednesday.
Think of what you could do for the knitting industry.
And we would like one of those cute Shoemoney T-Shirt girls to model them sweaters please!
Lol sweater wednesday.. i would love to have the models too!
nice one made me laugh
I haven’t worn a sweater in years. These days, they just make me think of Bill Cosby.
There are different ideas but its up to you, if you would like to get a profit from them, here is option A
Option A
Sell them on Ebay , adding an interesting title like “Super Shirt from Super Affiliate Marketer” and link to it from your sites. You will get a lot of exposure and you will get a lot of bids. Its something fashionable now days, people are buying almost anything (heard someone bought hair of Einstein) So a lot of people would love to wear a shirt which was before worn by their online idol.
Option B
ShoeMoney’s Christmas Bonanza Giveaway – Basically, you distribute them to your readers
Good Luck
Olgi Zenullari
I think you can auction them on ebay for sure, and I think that ebay has an option on their auctions to give the proceeds to charity.
Or you could collect the money, then throw up a video showing you taking a check to a local charity of shelter. They won’t diss the money, you can count on that.
Option A is interesting and here’s a possible win-win scenario;
Auction off the shirts on eBay – cross promote the auction listing using an eBay Partner Network (or AuctionAds/Shopping Ads) campaign,… donate the EDITDA revenue from both the shirt sales and EPN to a charity ??
BTW, I never got that confirming email for my Shoe t-shirt after wining the comment contest (I think I had it on November 11th)… perhaps just a spam filter issue.
Totally agree that people buy everything! You should try my idea.
It would be great if you start a “Shoemoney Stuff Sunday” like Hoo suggested.
Give it to some charity.
He’s tried that! Hence this blog post!
Did you read the post at all?
You can ebay off the Flip Minos for charity. I and countless others would take them off your hands, but better to do something worthwhile.
As for the tshirts: here in the UK a lot of old clothes go to Africa, where they would suit the climate ..l.
Or they could be sent to people who’d promise to take a picture of themselves with the merch and send a backlink over.
Why not sell it and give the money to charity? Or explain and suggest they have a garage sale. You could take pictures of your gear being sold. That way people see the stuff they send you doing some good, even if you don’t have a use for it.
I believe your blog alone is a good place for auction..
Simply giving the t-shirt to charity is good thing..
If you could find a way to sell them in bulk, that might be a quick way to sell them and the proceeds could go to charity.
No need for a garage sale. He only needs he’s blog with the thousands of subscribers. I’d buy one.
I suggested you in your last T shirt comment, hope you have read it!
I can’t believe that charities didn’t accept free stuff, no matter what time of year it is…
You could always just give them away. I’m sure the companies that sent them would love to have random people walking around wearing their shirts, promoting them. I could always do with an extra shirt!
Competitions always bring new people to this blog too, so you’d be yet again increasing your page views.
I want a mino… desparately…
You can start some contests
No, why you want contest as charity is good thing..
It’s cool that you get a lot of free gadgets and stuff. Give them to people that can use it to grow thier business.
You should make a contest out of it. Greg Ellison
Yup.. It will be fun this way! two ways..
I’ll 3rd “Shoemoney Stuff Sunday’s”!
I follow you on Twitter. My PRSSA chapter is adopting a local adult service center that would GLADLY take free tshirts for its 70 adult disabled consumers. They need tshirts of all sizes. These adults mostly live in group homes and have limited, limited income. And holy crap — my students would love to have some Flip Minos to work with their student blogs/projects in PR class. I’m trying to teach social media with a NADAzipZILCH budget!
GingerCM from twiiterville….
There was that Weezer video where they guy wore a 100+ t-shirts at once…you should do your version of it :.)
The Shoemoney Lucky Packet sounds like a good way of dispersing of said items. Send a hamper of goodies to a commentator on a daily basis, until your stock is exhausted or you’ve got some sort of equilibrium between incoming promo material and outgoing Lucky Packets.
There are countries where even t-shirts would be used by charities. People that were killed in Earthquakes. tsunamis.
But with the gadgets give them away in contests and have the winners cover the shipping free.
I’d say have a contest like my Big Box of Awesome Contest. I’m only giving away one box but I suspect that you could give away up to 12 mystery boxes that could contain anything. People have to guess what is inside.
recycle them by submitting them to other people’s free shirt fridays:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=eqy&q=%22free+shirt+friday%22+-shoemoney&btnG=Search
Hey Jeremy –
Find a local group of Veterans, National Guard, or something like that… and include them in a care package to the troops abroad!
Its still pretty warm over there!
Three words: contest, contest, contest.
I do not have a Flip Mino but want one badly. But they are are so often a contest prize, I keep trying there rather than just cough the dough to just get one. So, the suggestion is to take the Flip Mino’s and other prize worth schwag, have a few months of prizes to build your sites. Top comment of the day, most new visitors referred, etc.
The t-shirts- have a what would you do with 150 Free T-shirts Contest. Like Market Leverage is having with their contest this month, have people suggest best ideas, you choose one. Ship them to the winner. Maybe someone in the Florida Keys would want to clothe the Berkingstock wearing pan-handlers (I saw this there). Me? I would take them and build my site off-line. Get a booth at some festival/gathering ($30 to a $100 bucks) and trade a t-shirt for each new newsletter sign-up there. Using USB wifi, have them sign for and agree to the opt-in right there. And then if I were lucky enough to have a extra Flip Mino, have this as the grand prize which would be announced in the next newsletter a couple of days later (keep people from opting out right away).
Ya, I would say just give away the shirts and Flips in a contest.
Maybe you could find a quilt maker and have them make you a “sponsor quilt”…lol. Then you could auction it off on Ebay as a piece of the Free Shirt Friday Shoemoney history of 2008 or something, I’m sure you can think of better marketing for it…since you’re a blogging superstar, I’m sure you could raise a significant amount of money on it.
Maybe throw in a Shoemoney shirt for the middle piece or something.
Then donate the money to charity so that your sponsors in a round about way did something really good, not just for publicity on your site for them, but their shirt eventually produced funds for your favorite charity.
How’s that for a left field idea? No I’m not a quilt maker.
Or, you could do something like Woot does with their Woot Offs, if you have more than just shirts, you could come up with a trivia contest (Shoe trivia of course) and give away various goodie packs to the first responders with the right answer.
Well, if your local ones aren’t too happy about t-shirts in the middle of Winter, you don’t have to give it to them. Are there any other ones nearby? Why not just wait till summer? Also, it’s not Winter everywhere.
Not sure about your current inventory of short-sleeve shirts, but one thing that I know you can do to prevent this from happening again is to adjust your Free Shirt Friday by explaining to people that during Fall and Winter you will ONLY accept long-sleeve and then during Spring and Winter you will ONLY accept short-sleeve.
Also it would be kinda fun for you to change up the post titles a little bit, “YourName.com – Free Long-Sleeve Shirt Friday” etc…
That’s actually a very good idea. I think he should do this.
it seems weird the local shelter would turn down shirts. do you have a local toys for tots collection for the gadgets? try some of the local churches, many times they hook up with groups of folks that can use help. a t-shirt is great no matter the season, especially in balmy nebraska (i’m in mn)
its great you are looking to help out some folks with this stuff. merry christmas!
You can send the excess boxes to us and we will hand them out straight to the homeless here in central Florida.
Heck send a camera too and we will record it for you!
Give the flip mino away to your readers? I would love to have one of those.
me too!
Giving them to charity seems to be the best option
he already tried that…
When and where?
ship them to a charity/orphanage somewhere in the 3rd world where it’s warm, like Haiti. They will get their use out there
Giving them to charity in the summer seems like a good ideal. Or holding a number of contest on your blog for bloggers to win.
You should do giveaways to your readers, I’m sure a ton of us would love a flip mino, I know I would.
You could sell the electronics to readers and give the proceeds to charity? As for the t-shirts, wait until the summer and then visit Good will
Sell them for $1.99 like you did the ShoeMoney Shirts then use the $ for charity. I’d buy 10 or 20.
-Todd
Seriously, you should suspend free shirt Friday if the swag will never see the light of day on the blog. Having the program just has people needlessly sending you stuff.
Red Cross disaster services could use them.
Ted
If you haven’t learned from Katrina, Disaster services should never be trusted with donations.
I recommend sending them to Operation Gratitude. We’re in the business of promotional products and that’s where all of our overruns and extra samples go. We have sent them tens of thousands of items and they are always happy to receive them! Check out http://www.opgratitude.com/
No idea for the shirts…
But you could offload the Flips – Like I wouldn’t mind one.
How about free t-shirt friday
, or just give out t-shirts to who ever subscribes to your newsletter.
How about you host a big auction for the t-shirts and gadgets and then the money collected from the auction goes to a charity.
I like the idea of the auction and then giving them to charity. The other option is just to give a shirt away a day on shoemoney.com. A shirt a day contest?
Send the t-shirts to a charity or shelter somewhere where its always warm, like Florida.
Auction off the Flip Minos and the winning bid gets to chose which charity the money goes to.
Just give it away to your readers.
Here’s my idea: give them to OrangeSoda so they can give them out to employees at next year’s Christmas party. You’ll just need to throw in about 15 Netzero CDs.
Drawings or charity get my vote. Send them to the troops!
-Janet
Make a punching bag.
Genius!
You may be on to something… lol
This may be one of the best ideas yet.
How about local animal shelters? I’m sure they could use it for bedding, etc.
All the people that said send them to Florida or somewhere warm would be the best idea. How about those third world countries that are warm…I’m sure there is a lad that doesn’t even have a shirt on right now but would like one.
Consider trying to find out where they send all of the stuff for the teams that don’t win championships. You know, the place where they sent the Patriots gear when the Giants won the Super Bowl. I think it’s a warm nation that would love free t-shirts. I’m sure shipping isn’t the cheapest, but I bet they would be grateful for the items.
Jeremy,
Freely you’ve received, freely give.
I’d suggest giving the Mino’s to an organization that could really use, like a school or college. Or even a few churches. Maybe they’d like to start a media/video ministry. That’s be a great way to help them get started with it.
As for all of the shirts, give them away in the summer time.
Giving them to charity / orphanage / ong …
Sells the flips and other tech gear you don’t want on eBay and give the money to charity. Then challenge your list to add to the charity. Times are tough and a lot of people out there need help.
Wait a minute – you have charities there, that aren’t appreciative of stuff you send? Holy guacamole dude, send them to a shelter in Africa, they will be singing your name for generations to come, and you will be clothing some people who’ve probably never owned their own clothes before. I have no idea what a ‘flip mino’ is either, but again, charities in Africa can use just about anything, and if they can’t use it, they’ll sell it to raise funds. If you have a lot of stuff, you could really make a difference. Email me if you want a contact list of local charities here in Cape Town okay?
what about giving them away in contests here on your blog? just an idea but if the charity guys don’T appreicate it ….
Shoe, as some commenters have said, most charities outside of the US would LOVE to have a bunch of shirts they could give out. I would hook up with a local charity or church that is connected to an overseas operation of some sort and see if they can use the shirts.
As for the gadgets it seems like a contest or something is the natural way to go for those.
Just send me all the Gadgets and shirts you know the address…lol you can’t ever have enough haha. Take some pictures / videos and post them of all the goodies!
Random drawings from the comment winners that didn’t win the Macs over the past two months would be great for the minos..
the shirts you could sell them in bunk to readers or just give them away to readers and have the reader pay shipping and handling…
I got a few ideas:
- Post them on Craigslist/ebay and donate the proceeds to a charity
- Find homeless people and just give it out
- Donate the gadgets to toy drives
- Start a Contest
Give them to me! Would love to have a contest on my blog but I don’t have any money lol.
Shoe: Charity, charity, charity man…
Give something back.
By contest, auction anything collect some cash in give to the charity.
Happy xmas from Paris
Hold a auction or a raffle for all the prizes.
Use the money you make to cover costs for shipping only and give the rest to charity.
Maybe even hold a auction for who should pick the charity, the winner picks the charity and gets a mention on your blog (blacklink) which will no doubt be worth winning due to the large numbers of people that visit your site.
I agree…contests will give incentives for people to come to your blog (not that you need any help) and word of mouth can spread fast.
Or how bout this…if the huskers win their bowl game, all your Nebraska followers get free stuff!
The local animal shelter can use them for the dogs to sleep on, you can give them a call and they can probably use most of what you have. We used to give our extras from our tshirt business to my wifes friend that works at a dog shelter near us.
I like auctions as much as the next guy, but giving them to a deserving group just makes sense. If you are in it for the exposure, then I’m sure local media will take care of it. It will go over the AP Wire, and any news with their ear to the ground will know your name and feature it.
your write is very will thanks for your post
You should get one of those T-Shirt shooting machines that they have at football games, and during the next conference, on a panel you are speaking at – when you are not speaking you should be shooting the audience with random shirts (especially at people who are not paying attention) – in the words of Tommy Boy – that would be awesome!!!
Assign the gadgets to a random selection of T-shirts.
Post the complete list of T-shirts at $5/7 or whatever (+postage), cheap for a T-shirt and a dozen lucky people get a flip.
Proceeds to a charity of your choice.
I love the giving to charity idea.. but I’d LOVE a Flip Mino of my own too. Hmmm… maybe you can have a contest where you give us a list of your favorite charities and let us make a donation in honor of Shoemoney. Then you can choose the top 12 donators and send them a Flip Mino as a bonus. Then everyone gives and everyone wins!
Sell it on ebay as a lot. No reserve, starting bid $1. See how far it goes. I’d bid.
Jim, why don’t you show more t-shirt at once?
Giving them to charity
Auction it on your site and donate the proceeds it to some charity organisation…Christmas is here and people need help. You can make a difference to a few lives here…
And my last comment is what you posted. Thanks!
Great post
I think you should have a contest… The first 5 to come to your office some saturday receive something great.
I would guess most people probably don’t visit the websites where you received the free t-shirt from. In my opinion you can use the t-shirt to facilitate more interaction between the readers and those companies. .
E.g.:
Create a forum in which a message thread is denoted to a company’s t-shirt you received. Ask the readers to visit the company’s website, give comments/suggestions, answer surveys etc. Base on the best comment chosen by the company, you can sign the shirt and mail it out to the t-shirt to the readers. In term the user can use to signed shirt to redeem prizes from the company.
I think it is better to have a contest and make those shirts as prizes. This is one way to bring more traffic than usual.
Send the tshirts to Africa
Hmm dont you think its costly shipping, would’nt it be better sending the shipping money and buying shirts from there.
Honestly I think there are needing people out there that would appreciate a flip if you give it to poor family’s they probably don’t have PC to upload videos to let alone the internet so I guess giving back to other affiliate marketers that don’t have the flip would be the best idea!
Hold one big auction on ebay for all your items, a no reserve highest bid wins all!
I would sell these on Ebay, and donate the money to charity
charity, ebay, donation… bah! boring stuff…
Jeremy should wear all or most of them at the same time, take a pic, then allow the readers to predict the exact number of t-shirts you’re wearing, the winner takes all.
Give it to the bums on the street. Would be kind of cool if all the bums in Lincoln would wear tech shirts. Or shoemoney shirts if you give them those
I can say make a contest, but I think bums may need it the most. Make sure you tell them “This is from shoemoney.com – a site that tell how to become rich quickly” lol
You’re totally right that, ”What to do with all the free shirts” is true.
Find someone local that could use some extra money this holiday season and let them do the legwork of ebaying the stuff for some/all of the money.
No idea for the shirts…But i think..
Can u send 1 tshirt on my address ?:D
of course giving it away is probably the best thing but if you would like to sell it maybe for 99 cents im sure a lot of people would be intrsted.,..
It would be great if you start a “Shoemoney Stuff Sunday” like Hoo suggested.
Did they count how much money they spend on all these freee shirts, even imagine how much they would get if selling them for a 1$ each
Give them away to charities, Sell them on auction and give the money to charities, Give them away to lucky subscribers,
Since your local charity didn’t seem to want them, you could send them to a disaster relief group or 3rd world country where they might be more readily accepted – like other people have suggested.
I think it would also be funny to put them all on and intermittently take pictures of you with a mystery number of shirts on and have readers guess how many you are wearing – whoever gets the number right for that picture gets 5, or 10 or 20 shirts.
Gary’s idea of making the free shirts seasonal was a good one too.
Also, I imagine you won’t have any trouble coming up with a good way to get rid of those flip mino’s – contest, random giveaway, charity auction.
Give them away at a conference. stack them up and let people take them. That helps the companies that gave you the shirts and gets people to your booth (or a friends booth) or whatever you might have.
Interesting Idea not bad, but would’nt it be better to give away shoemoney shirts or something.
Recycle the shirts by using them to wrap all the electronics in that you hold contests for, that way killing two birds with one stone. Do it as a Shoemoney’s 12 Days of Christmas, starting tomorrow so as to get it all shipped before actual Christmas. Give away 12 bundles, then 11, then 10, etc etc. with the last bundle being the most expensive/coolest/wowiest whatever.
I must say, giving them away to the shelters is one of the kindest gestures and most ethical things you could have done. I hope it inspires others to think along the same lines.
Nice one,
TS
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Selling them on ebay would be an alternative
1. Take everything to the local schools and let the kids have their pick of the shirts and cameras.
2. Drive around town and distribute items to homeless people. Awhile back, they did this on an episode of Rob & Big where they drove around giving away clothes. The local charity might not want the shirts but I imagine someone that is homeless wouldn’t mind a few extra shirts on a cold day.
3. Start a “Shoemoney Shirts” storefront, different than your branded clothing, and sell them at huge discounts. Then use the money to support your favorite charity.
4. Every reader that makes a $100 donation to the charity of your choice receives X number of shirts.
First of all, take a photo with them and blog post it.
Second of all, give them on a spree for commentators, make sure you can ship internationally, you got alot of fans overseas.
wow – this is a great post! I just asked the same question on your net atlantic or another one of the t-shirt blogs. so I am glad to see this post…I think that it should be given to charity, perhaps you can even network or join with Kiva – the charitiy foundation and provide some of the important business things that these folks needs – since they ask for donations to build their business I am sure they would really appreciate some of the technical things that would catapult them to success…..
Put them in a large box and send that to a country/charity where they could really use them or as Tom mentioned earlier save them for the summer.
Things shelters could use at this time of year would be warm clothing and food i would think.
Or you could sell the t-shirts to your readers and send that money to charity as a shirt for food x-mas action or something?
Well those stuff were given to you for free so might as well give them to charitable institutions as a form of donation, especially here in the third world country like ours in the Philippines where poor people couldn’t afford to buy new things this Christmas. Start being a philanthropist dude, it’s not yet too late to be one.
I would give the T-shirts to the bums on the streets. I am sure they will accept them.
Get someone to volunteer their time and oversee sales via craiglist or ebay, then donate cold hard cash to your favorite charity (that can use $ better than products).
You should give away the Flip’s to the readers/commenters, and I’d suggest checking with your local Rotary Club, I’m sure they can find a home for them. If not, send them to me in Vermont. I’ll give them to charity here.
You could run a contest for a free t-shirt. It has to be nothing hectic, as there’s a lot of t-shirts to give-away.
I can imagine a homeless man’s smiling face if a shirt’s given to him.
There were couple of good ones up there. My combination suggestion would be to arrange:
1. Shoemoney Clean Sweep – charity auction.
Give your every donator a chance to buy back the item they have donated. You will give a link for the winning bid on a grand list. “NewHomesSection.com T-shirt goes to (link)” That would be a good motivation for NewHomesSection to come and bid for the link. So first you get stuff from them and then they pay for you to give it away.
You would still keep all the stuff. Next port of call would be to find a way to give it away. Then it is time to contact Seth Godin or Kiva.org alternatively you can arrange similar kind of contest, but those two instances probably have wider NGO reach. Time for:
2. Shoemoney Clean Sweep – Charity Contest
Like someone mentioned up there, running contest for best suggestion to grab the stuff + add money that you got from the auction – little something for the person taking part to the contest. Contest title “What would I do if I got… ” and target should be charity of participants choice. This would then work as a linkbate for you.
Make it a yearly thing and you’ll start getting even more free stuff.
This post seems to spark a lot of discussion, so it should. Just an idea to my previous comment. Get other high visibility internet marketing people in to the part 1 and create massive exposure in blog media.
Right now the souther hemisphere could use some clothing, so you could donate them to an international humanitarian group.
OR…try to get shoemoney shirt pictures from as many countries as possible, and throw them onto a google maps mashup to show the influence of the brand.
I’m happy to take some of that weight off your shoulders Jeremy. Just send me one (or maybe two) of the Mino’s and you’ll begin to feel a lot better. Promise!
Hey Shoe – Try to find a church or organization in your area that does mission work in Central or South America. Our church (OKC) has a medical mission in Nicaragua and always asks for clothing to ship along with the medical supplies they are taking. The t-shirts would be appropriate, welcome and much needed.
Put each item in a box or bag and have people buy a random bag for $5. That should cover the shipping charges and you can give the rest to charity. This will benefit both a charity of your choice and the advertiser that sent you the product since it will then go to someone who is more likely to be interested in there service.
Late arrival…sorry.
Well seeing as how much you liked the “odd” Christmas tree festival you attended, why not find a way to make a HUGE t-shirt Christmas tree, then auction it off at a place of your choosing.
Ship them to a charity in the Southern Hemisphere.
Do the shirts have yellow armpit stains? Goodwill doesn’t like it when I donate mine in that condition either.
Dude I live here in Lincoln, just hire me to take care of all of this crap for you. I’ll come pick up all this stuff and get rid of it for you. Quit letting this stuff overrun your time. You need a PR consultant. An organizer, a bitch slap, a numb nuts, whatever, I’ll do it.
for social activity , send the all shirt…..for people in area complic…country with many disaster…..I think …they really need
You can use the free t-shirts in home..
If the local shelter doesn’t need them which I doubt that they wouldn’t. Bundle them in lots of 10-20 and auction them off to raise money for your favorite charity.
Put them all in one area of concrete and start a bon-fire, and then blog about it.
I got it. You can have a SEO and Affiliate marketing quizz at your nearest mall and here on this blog, where you give away 10 t-shirts to the first person to give a correct answer to the question. Ask only one question per round. It could be a daily quizz here on this blog.
I’d love a flip as well! As for the shirts: anyone or any organization (community centers, schools, craft studios) into crafts would love to take the shirts from you. I would mind some either to be honest.
I’ve volunteered at a small thrift store before. We just don’t have the space for 100-150 T-shirts at one time, no matter what the weather. The thrift store wants to offer a variety of items to their customers, and don’t want T-shirts crowding out things like clothing appropriate for job interviews and office jobs.
In that store’s situation, I can think of a way it would have worked for us. Bring the shirts in in a sturdy box, with the shirts neatly folded (to take up the least amount of space). Label the box on the outside, including the approximate number of shirts, the fact that they were worn only once, and that most/all of them are a size XL. When the store gets low on t-shirts, they know they can reach in and grab 10 and put them on the shelves, and not worry about if they’re in good condition, have to examine them for stains, etc. (the thrift store I volunteered for spent time making sure the clothes we put out were things you could actually wear, no rips, stains, as so on).
Yes, it’s a little bit of work — but I think less work than trying to give them away individually.
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LOL I could just picture the look on good wills faces – T-Shirts in the winter!!! ehehhe
I guess you could always give a few to some homeless people, and they coould maybe join them together to make a blanket or something like that!!
hahaha better then wearing nothing, T-shirts can be great under shirts
Build a quick BANS website called http://www.ShoemoneysSchwagg.com and use the weekly t-shirt photos to profile the t-shirt and company that sent it to you on EbAy and your new site. You can set up the BANS store so it only shows your auctions. Start all the auctions off at 99 cents
This is a simple way to sell and monetize the shirts, but it also adds value to those companies that have already sent in shirts and will probably increase the number of shirts and schwagg you receive in the future. If the amount of shirts becomes overwhelming just hire a cutie or two to model the shirts and write up the company’s profiles with you giving final Shoemoney approval.
Place Ebay widgets coded with your product on your blog and other startegic places you have access to.
The proceeds of the auction can go to anyone you choose then on an ongoing basis. This is a win win situation. You find good homes for your t-shirts, the companies that send them to you recieve some more free press, more shirts and schwagg are sent to you and the cycle continues.
Cheers!
WineGuy
How about this: stop-motion video of putting all the t-shirts on your daughter or taking them of. Frame it as an attempt to break the world record.
Just wait till summer! I’m sure someone will want them eventually! There usually some kick ass shirts. If they doesnt work, whatabout some contests to give back to the readers!
The best idea will be to sell them on ebay or open your own online store with the only reason “All money will be donated to charity” you can sell those stuffs and many more that will come for sure.
i will love to get lots of free t-shrits for my famileys to wear please send some free t-shrits
me and my big familey will love to takes some mins mino off your hands please send in the mail
For the flips, you don’t even need to make a huge fuss about it. Go to your subscribers list, and pick a few people to give gifts to, especially in the X-mas season.
Sometimes, admit that you get a comment that makes you laugh, stare at your screen with – or + surprise or just feel it’s something different. Go ahead and give the unique commenter a gift, let it be a gadget, a Flip or a couple of t-shirts, your readers will love the “connection”. I think this is better off than all the contests with loads of linkbait and “please enter me” comments.
For the t-shirts, I can imagine it’s such a huge mess mailing each tee to each person. I suggest you sell them on ebay in bulk, or give them to someone who commits to giving them away to people in need. You wouldn’t have to control that, you have that person’s word, and you get to get rid of the tees.
I would….
1) Offer them during the summer to summer camps, charity pass them ou to the homeless
2) pass them around collection signatures and hold an auction. proceeds can be donated to your favorite charity.
or make a maga quilt from them.
Bryn.me is having similar problem donating to salvation, goodwill etc. another idea no idea if goodwill, valuevillage is available in the US
Looks like charity is the winner.
… there’s people out there that really could use those tshirts too .. we’ve been giving away our last year winter clothes and coats to families here in Kansas City this last month.
I think it’s obvious that you should either give away the Flips via contest or heck, just sell them.
I’m shocked that any shelter would turn down any clothes though. Maybe you need to do your t-shirt cleaning out in the summer time? Or find a better charity that will take what they can get?
Never heard of Salvation Army or Goodwill turning down clothing. I would gladly spread them around to SA, Goodwill, Hannah’s House, etc.here in Mississippi and they’d be glad to get them. But like someone else said, you could just look up the address to Goodwill in Miami, Tampa, etc. and just send them through the mail.
Many donation points here in Florida reject clothing of any kind. They are stacked to the ceilings with clothes.
Sell them on eBay by all means. eBay encourages charitible auctions, fees are waived 100% if donation is 100%. There is a minimum $5 donation to the charity of your choice so start the auction at $5 or buy-it-now (runs 30 days) and there are thousands of them to choose from. The charity you choose must already be registered with Mission Fish. You charge exact shipping and handling and it costs you NOTHING while you advertise your blog or whatever you wish as well as the shirt giver with pictures of the t-shirt and your logo and the buyer wearing the shirt later. Sign the shirts with your blog site and logo and it keeps on giving and giving! Glad to help with this if you like.
I have a friend that just adopted a girl from an orphanage in Moldova. They are always in need of clothes. I could send UPS to pick them up and my expense and then send them to Moldova at my expense. I may even be able to get a few pics for you.
Brent
Not sure what charity you went to, but women’s shelters can always use them. Most of them are leaving situations with only the clothes on their backs and having something clean to change into does more than you will ever know.
Just a thought.
Charity is a good way to show the universe that you are rich, and you know,universe will reward you ten fold.
Maybe you can open an ecommerce store selling T-shirts.
Hey Shoe! You still haven’t decide what to do with those shirts? Sell them and we’ll buy each one of them for a bargain price and the money that you generate out from it can be sent to the charity of your choice. Tis the season for giving..=)
I am a quilter. With all those fabulous t-shirts you can make them into quilts. You cut out the main logo and wording, from each shirt, in a square or rectangle, fit them together like a puzzle in some aesthetically pleasing arrangement then sew them together into a size that will cover a full/queen size bed, add a layer of cotton batting and a soft knit backing…stitch the layers together at certain intervals or do an overall quilting pattern and viola! A cool, one of a kind quilt.
You could then auction it off or sell it.
Google T-shirts quilts to see what I mean.
I have a gr8 idea..Send it to me :{}..haha just joking..
Send to poor people yaar like in Africa or to orphans :{
Plant your john hancock on em. Create a campaign of random websites stating that your signature is worth a lot of money. Then post those bad boys on ebay and watch the prices soar.
Well since you do a lot of charity work you could send some of the better stuff to an auction and take that money and give to some charity or diaper drive for the Lydia house. You could give the shirts to an orphanage, or just wait till summer to give them to the shelter or good will.
Thanks
Mr. School Fundraising Ideas
Well this one will add extra cost to you but believe me this will be really great. Send those T shirts to some poor Asian countries’s charities.
But they should be reliable one. If you want than I can help you in this regards.
make an auction on epay and we will join to catch it. or as Typhoon said send it to ” me” not him :p
Save your shirts you receive throughout the years and then do a charity auction event where you auction off the shirts and then donate the money to a local or national charity of your choice. You could also leave the charity selection up to vote on your blog as well.
make a museum of all the shirts you got from various sites and make your own tab in the Google search homepage that says “tshirts”, just beside pictures and groups. and when people surf they’ll be seeing some cool website tshirts!
It would be awesome if you had a contest and gave the goods away.I mean receive for free and give for free…It would so much fun and I would enter it within a minute.
we can send you a shipping label and you can ship them to us, we will then donate the palette to a homeless shelter or better yet, ship it overseas or down south… lots of people could use those shirts…
Recently I saw that John is conducting a sale of his products and will donate the money for charity purpose.
You can also do that … or
Send t shirts to some Asian countries to charity institute.
Arrange competition for flipo, if you have any problem than you can say sponsored by those people who have gifted you.
I think this one is old post but you can take this advice for future purpose. As I know in coming days and months also you will keep getting such kind of stuffs.
0) Document and further photograph each shirt then post this to your site. (or create a new site in itself!)
1) donate to International charities/organizations.
2) give to us, your loyal fans.
3) keep a few for yourself.
4) continue the program.
Its always a great thing to give back to the community. Thanks for posting, glad you did!
I’m a short and t-shirt kind of girl. I love all the free shirts from races or college that become my work-out gear.