How to donate will vary by Too Good To Toss Event, please check the donation instructions for each individual event. As always, before packing up your car, be sure to check the list of items we cannot accept. Regardless of the event type, all donations must be clean, in good working order, and must have all of their parts.

For the Too Good To Toss Main Event, May 31 and June 1 2025 (Stanley Deming Park, all departments) we accept donations on Saturday only from 10am-4pm. Bring your items to the donation station, you will be asked to immediately remove anything we cannot accept. Please scroll to the bottom of this page for a list of items we cannot accept at this event.

For the fundraiser mini: gifts on November 15, please check back for donation instructions closer to the event date.

At the main event volunteers are available to help you unload from the parking spaces in front of the basketball court. We are unlikely to be able to offer this service at mini events.

The Too Good To Toss Main Event is FREE to all! We do have expenses, however, and accept cash donations at the door (or you can donate here) to help cover them.

mini events may either be free or charge a fee to raise funds for our main event and for Wickham Works as a whole. Please refer to the information for each individual event.

For the Too Good To Toss Main Event, Sunday June 1 2025 (Stanley Deming Park, all departments) from 10am-4pm the goods are ready for the taking. We encourage attendees to take as much as they can carry, really and advise you bring a cart, piece of luggage, or bag to shop into. For everyone's safety, we do not allow collecting of piles of items, If you do not abide by this rule we may ask you to leave.

For the fundraiser mini: gifts on November 15, please check back for shopping instructions closer to the event date.

We get it, theres so much good stuff at Too Good To Toss. Thanks for helping us keep perfectly good stuff out of a landfill! At the main event, we have parking spots at the exit reserved for loading the goods into your vehicle. Designated volunteers will help you carry out the big stuff and load it up! Once you leave the main event, you do have to get back in line, but we move through the line quickly!

For mini events we do not plan to have volunteers loading cars at this time, but in some cases, we may allow re-entry.

It's true, we have had shoppers lined up as early as 5:30am, but here's a tip: when the doors open at the main event at 10am we let in 150 people at once and then monitor the traffic from there. Within 2 hours roughly 600 people have come through the event and yet good stuff remains through the end. Don't not come because there is a line, thats silly, its free stuff!

We organize everything into departments which includes: Clothing (Men, Women, Kids), Fashion Accessories, Home Decor, Kids toys + Books, Arts + Crafts, Garage + Garden, Home Textiles, Kitchen + Bath, Office, Art, Rugs, Furniture, Sports + Outdoor, Holiday/Seasonal.You can see the list of unacceptable items for things that you won't find at TGTT below.

For the Too Good To Toss Main Event, we have been able to organize parking on the grass at Stanley Deming Park, right next to our event on the basketball courts. We'll have folks directing traffic so just get into the area and you'll find your way. That parking, however, this can be weather-dependent. If it has been a soggy few weeks leading up to the event, you can expect to park at the Park Ave Elementary Parking lot (walking distance) or in another legal parking spot. Parking spots in front of the basketball court are reserved for loading and unloading only with the exception of handicap parking.

Parking for mini events will be location-dependent.

Right?! This event is only possible because we have incredible volunteers, most of whom lend their time only for the days of the events. If you would like to be contacted for volunteer opportunities or to join the planning committee, please sign up for our newsletter. You should know that volunteers get first-pick of the goods (limited to 2 items per hour volunteered for the main event, most shifts are 3 hours). You may alsoemail Payton Swenson at PaytonSwenson@wickhamWorks.org for more details.

Itself! Our one true aim is to share the joy, practicality, and sustainability of re-use. 

Too Good To Toss may also have fundraisers to support Wickham Works, The Warwick Valley Community Center, its own operational costs, and more.