Our store receives a diverse collection of items from givers - sofas, lamps, bookshelves, electronics, cabinets, decor - and we give them a real shot at a second life through our retail store. Most items sell. But not everything does. How we keep items that don’t sell out of landfills was a question we knew we needed to answer better.
Gone is thrilled to share our partnership with NW Furniture Bank (NWFB), a Tacoma-based nonprofit that has served over 25,000 families with a place to sit, sleep and eat. When items in our store don’t find a buyer within a reasonable window of time, but still have usable value left, NW Furniture Bank steps in and chooses items that meet the needs of their community best. This includes families transitioning out of homelessness, survivors of domestic violence, veterans getting back on their feet, and others rebuilding their lives. Items that didn't sell in our store might be exactly what a family needs when they move into a new apartment.
Our vision is to maximize the useful life of goods, which means finding the most valuable destination for every item we receive. Sometimes, that destination is a family who needs a dining table, a veteran who just moved into his first apartment in years and doesn’t own a single piece of furniture, or someone leaving a shelter for the first time with nothing but a new set of keys. NW Furniture Bank has built out the warehousing and caseworker infrastructure to ensure items are selected and donated with intent to match what families actually need. The 50+ items we've donated to them this past year meets our shared goals: goods that still have life to give, now matched with families working to rebuild theirs.
A few items that have found their second home through NW Furniture Bank!
If you choose us to get your items gone, we will do everything in our power to keep them out of the landfill. Every item gets a genuine shot at its next chapter, and the destinations - resale, donation, responsible recycling - are matched to what each item actually warrants. Nothing with useful life in it goes straight to a dumpster in our model. That's the circular model working the way it should.
Thank you to Jeremy Simler, Executive Director of NW Furniture, and the whole NWFB team for enabling this partnership. They've spent nearly two decades earning the trust of the caseworkers and social service agencies who connect them with the families they serve. We're glad to be a source of inventory for the work they're doing, and we're glad our givers' items have another path to someone who truly needs them.
If you have furniture or household goods you're ready to part with, you can request a pickup here. We'll handle the rest — and now, so will our partners.