Shop used first to make the world better, cleaner, and more sustainable.
When you choose to buy used instead of new you reduce your carbon footprint by 60-70%. That’s more impactful than ditching your car and biking every day! Plus, did you know the fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world?
When you shop big box retailers and online companies only 10-40% of every dollar you spend stays in your community. Shopping local business keeps 90% of your money in your local community to benefit your friends and neighbors. It’s like an ecosystem that keeps your community humming and more and more people are jumping on board the Shop Local train.
Most Uptown stores offer a donation option for the products we’re not able to use. This service helps you:
Through fundraising efforts amongst our network of Uptown Cheapskate and Kid to Kid stores, we’ve been able to raise an incredible:
We believe that the best way to reduce poverty is to ensure that all people have access to a quality education. Through our partnership with buildOn we have helped build 21 schools in underdeveloped countries, with several more schools funded and in progress.
buildOn partners with community members who make a solemn promise by signing the buildOn Covenant to contribute volunteer hours to build their new school. Each village provides land, local materials, and thousands of hours of labor. They also commit to send girls and boys to school in equal numbers. This sustainable approach ensures that schools are built with a community, not for a community— because the people we work with are true partners, not recipients of aid.
