Selling unwanted items for charity, in an online thrift shop

CHELSEA (WABC) -- If you're doing some spring cleaning and want to do some good with the items you don't want, there is an online thrift store that makes it a snap to sell your stuff and help others as well.

There's one survey that found that Americans have $7,000 worth of stuff: clothes, furniture, trinkets, that they don't use or want.

So go through your closets and find those items, and now you can sell them for a cause you support.

"Everybody has so much excess stuff and figuring out what to do with it is difficult," said Doug Krugman.

Doug and his wife Lynn Zises are making it easy through their site, WebThriftStore.

Both allow you to sell items you no longer want, but instead of pocketing the cash, 50 percent of the proceeds go to a charity of your choice.

"You take a picture, you choose the charity. Right now we have 47 charity partners, you set a price, it's not an auction and when the item sells you get an email, congratulations you've just raised $50," said Zises.

You also get a donation letter for your taxes and a prepaid shipping label that allows you to send the item right to the buyer.

"That person wants your item, you want to help a charity and it's a win win for everyone," said Krugman.

Especially for the charities, like Urban Upbound. It's collected more than $10,000 through the site and that's just a start.

"I can't tell you the countless individual donors that got connected to us via web thrift that we've been able to cultivate and get more resources from," said Bishop Taylor of Urban Upbound.

And that allows even more public housing residents to tap into resources right in their own community.

"There's nothing novel about having a stand alone credit union, having a stand alone work force center, or having a stand alone financial counseling center, or having a stand along college access program, or having advocacy for residents. But there is some magic when you have it comprehensively integrated together on urban campuses," Taylor said.

So that should incentive you to do some spring cleaning and sell what you don't want, for charity.

Web Thrift Store and Thrift Snap take 20% of the sale. And if you are selling an item, the buyer pays for shipping. And amazingly, one seller sold a minivan on the site that raised quite a bit of money for charity.

Link to Web Thrift Store: https://www.webthriftstore.com/app/#!/