By The Pickup G’mach. Yes. It’s not even Purim but at the Pickup G’mach we are already thinking about Pesach clothing!
We are starting our Pesach clothing drive early so it is easier on our extremely devoted volunteers to drive around doing the pickups without the pressure of yom tov on their heads. This will also help the families that depend on us know what they have already and what they will still need to buy l’kavod yom tov. Of course, it works for you to already begin closet cleanouts so you’re one step ahead of the game!
What We’re All About
If you spend time, money and effort on your children’s clothing, would like others to appreciate it, would hate for it to be wrinkled or rained on in the donation process, AND would rather it be picked up, then this lightly-used, current styles children’s clothing g’mach pickup service is for you! (try saying that fast!)
We are a free pick-up service for current and gently-used or new children’s clothing.
The Pickup G’mach is a Lakewood clothing gmach. We operate a “boutique” and the neighborhood Kollel families “shop” for free, “buying” the clothing that we collect, helping them to get your beautiful, still new looking clothing without the expense.The Pickup Gmach is operated is under the haskama of R’ Yaakov Forscheimer, Shlita.
What We Take:
We take desirable clothing, not unwanted clothing. (You know…skip the scuba skirts, sweater sets, baggy or torn pants, stained, pilled or washed out stuff, things that have been sitting in the attic, items been passed down more than once…Sorry to specify, but now you know what that means!)
Please understand this is not what we’re looking for because it will not look acceptable for another use for (regular, nice) Lakewood families. Simla, a recycling company that takes unusable clothing will pick up all that. You can text to arrange a pick up at 732-746-5533.
Used Tzitzis: It is generally pasul. Please place in shaimos or double wrap and throw out, but please do not give it to us!
Uniforms: Give to a local uniform gmach.
If you have desirable clothing you’d like to pass on to a wonderful cause, well…that’s us!
HOW TO DONATE TO THE PICKUP GMACH-3 Easy Steps:
- Sort through your clothing, giving us what we ask for: Size 0-16 girls, 0-12 boys, current and stylish, excellent condition clothing (from a season or two ago, at most)
- Put in a garbage bag, seal (from rain), and label “Gmach”
- Place outside and THEN text us with your address once it’s out at 848-525-6961 (TEXT-ONLY line for pickups). Leave it out until picked up. Do not take it back in!
Pickups are done Sunday-Thursday night. Please don’t text late Thursday night or Friday.
Tizku l’mitzvos and thank you, of course!
Note: We are a small scale gmach run by volunteers out of a basement location. We make sure to give all our extras to other Lakewood gmachim (pre-sorted, only the nice things), so they can help more people than we are able to service. We apologize but all slots are filled at this time so please do not contact us to join.
Questions or comments, email [email protected].
For Pickups ONLY text 848-525-6961.