BUFFALO, N.Y. — What if you could go shopping for free? It sounds made up, but Anne Mccooey from Blackrock Riverside Alliance knows just how real of an option it can be.
“My father used to have all these things that he wanted to give away, rather than just throw them out. And he would say to me, ‘can you find some place that gives them directly to people who need them? They don’t sell them.’ They don’t do anything other than just give them to people in need,” Mccooey said.
It was a concept she turned into reality after her parents passed away in 2018.
“I had a lot of their stuff in my house because they had been living with me, and I kept thinking about my dad, and he used to say to me, sometimes a dollar for a shirt in goodwill is too much for somebody to spend, but they really need it,” she said.
