What We Pick Up

Saint Petersburg video game donations usually come from a generational situation — kids moved out years ago, but the games stayed in the basement. Older console games that have been sitting in a drawer in the Old Northeast for fifteen years. Newer-generation games the household has finished. Pack them in the same boxes as your books and media.

What Conditions Work and Don't

Game discs should be playable. Cartridges should be intact. Controllers should be in working order. Cracked discs and physically broken cartridges probably can't find a second life.

You don't need to sort by console. Mix Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Sega, Atari, all of it.

Where Donated Saint Petersburg Video Games Go

Some are redistributed through the Give ME Books program to schools, after-school programs, and shelters. Some are resold by Local Pick-Up Partners through resale channels and community sales. Items that cannot be reused may eventually be recycled as a last resort. The American Library Association's Book Donation Programs guide describes how community programs handle media and game donations.

Give My Books Network is a nationwide community book-sharing network, and the Saint Petersburg pickups are handled by independent Local Pick-Up Partners who live and work in the same neighborhoods you do. Many items collected end up with schools, libraries, and literacy programs that request books through the Give ME Books program.