new digs

intro’d via googling new digs

We receive, store, and freely give away furniture, household goods, and linens that may be needed to “move in” with no cost to the client.

What do you think of when you hear the term “new digs”? A new house? A fresh place to call home? A recent change in residence? That’s what Ginny Jones, the Founder of New Digs Ministry, Inc. thought of back in 2007. Ginny had a dream of creating a place where individuals with mental health problems could receive home furnishings for their residence, completely free.

What brought about this dream? Ginny knew first-hand how difficult it was for a person receiving mental health services to be able to afford any kind of home furnishings, as she is the mother of an autistic daughter. As her daughter grew older and was ready to live in her own apartment, she would only receive about $600.00 per month to cover all of her living expenses. Ginny saw how this small monetary income severely limited the things that her daughter could afford to outfit a new home.

So, what did Ginny do? She started collecting furniture that she saw discarded along the roadside and storing it on her front porch. As you can imagine, her collection quickly outgrew her allotted space. A friend recommended that she seek out storage space at Mission Central. The staff there was extremely supportive of Ginny’s mission giving her a dozen pallets to store her finds. In January of 2007, “New Digs” was the official name of Ginny’s dream. Word spread quickly across the children’s mental health network in Cumberland and Dauphin counties, causing her to seek out more space and more help. In no time at all, a Board of Directors was formed and Ginny’s mission became New Digs Ministry, Inc. (Mechanicsburg, PA)

Today, New Digs Ministry has been fortunate enough to expand and assist a variety of different people in need. Ranging from those who were recovering from physical losses, such as fires or floods, to those starting over from rehabilitation, prison, domestic violence shelters, and so on.

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perhaps let’s try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting) as the planned obsolescence w/ubi as temp placebo.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring

because – oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

there is a nother way for 8b people to live

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