What To Do With Those Little Bottles

Last month I went on a rather lengthy vacation, in two different countries. My hotels became home base between my sightseeing expeditions. When I returned home I was always greeted with a freshly restocked supply of toiletries, whether I needed them or not. After my quick San Franciscan scoff at how wasteful a practice this was, I remembered this was not uncommon for hotels. I left the bottles of unused products in the bathroom and tucked away the unopened containers in my luggage to donate later to St. Anthony’s Clothing & Housewares Program.

There are only a few places left in San Francisco where homeless or marginally housed people can shower. These facilities often don’t provide hygiene products for their guests. Lugging around full sized containers with the rest of one’s worldly possessions is hardly practical, and so is paying the same price for a travel sized one. That’s why so many of our volunteers, staff and donors bring these travel sized products to St. Anthony’s.

You can donate these items at our Clothing & Housewares program at 101 8th Street, at the corner of Mission Street, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Please pull into the parking lot, come to the door and ring the bell for assistance.

Written by Shaun Osburn, Senior Communications Associate / Webmaster.