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Project Repat – On Location

Blankets Made from Customer-Provided T-shirts from Project Repat (Up to $23 Off). Six Sizes Available.

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In a Nutshell

Blanket made from your old T-shirts reduces textile waste and creates fair-wage jobs for people with disabilities

The Fine Print

  • Expires Nov 7, 2012
  • Limit 2 per person, may buy 4 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Must use promotional value in 1 visit. 100% of donations go directly to Project Repat. Donations are automatically applied. Must provide full name at checkout. See Grassroots FAQs that apply to this campaign.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency reports that 13.1 million tons of textiles were generated in 2010, representing 5.3% of the total municipal solid waste generated. With this Grassroots campaign, you can help reduce waste by sending in old T-shirts to Project Repat, whose staffers will cut them into square-foot swathes, sew them together, and return them to you as an upcycled blanket. Choose from the following options:

  • $42 for a 3'x3' blanket using 9 T-shirts (a $55 value)
  • $45 for a 4'x3' blanket using 12 T-shirts (a $60 value)
  • $49 for a 4'x4' blanket using 16 T-shirts (a $65 value)
  • $53 for a 5'x4' blanket using 20 T-shirts (a $70 value)
  • $57 for a 5'x5' blanket using 25 T-shirts (an $80 value)
  • $61 for a 5'x6' blanket using 30 T-shirts (an $85 value)

Customers must pay to ship their T-shirts to Project Repat’s Boston location, but shipping of the final product is included. Shipping enough T-shirts for a 3'x3' blanket from California to Massachusetts typically costs around $12.

Project Repat repurposes excess clothing into functional accessories including blankets, scarves, ties, and bags. While reducing waste from textiles, the business also creates living-wage jobs for American workers, including those with disabilities. Each blanket sold represents two hours of fair-wage work. Project Repat typically collects T-shirts from individuals, universities, and manufacturers, and then sends them to NuPath, a nonprofit that provides a network of day services and residential housing for people with developmental disabilities, autism-spectrum disorders, and acquired brain injuries. Participants in NuPath's programs transform the T-shirts into freshly constructed accessories, and then send them back to customers.

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The Groupon Guide to: Cute vs. Creepy

Cute and creepy are two sides of the same coin, both exploiting vulnerability or out-of-the-norm behavior in order to elicit an instinctive response. In our stimulus-overload world, it can be difficult at times to tell the two apart—at least, without consulting this foolproof guide:

  • Blind date bringing you a brightly colored wildflower: cute

  • Blind date bringing you a brightly colored wild cockatiel: creepy

  • Father saying goodbye to his daughter after dropping her off at school: cute

  • Father saying goodbye to his daughter after serving her scrambled eggs: creepy

  • Animal with eyes exactly the size of a quarter: cute

  • Animal with eyes slightly larger than a quarter: creepy

  • Six-year-old niece taking your picture: cute

  • Six-year-old niece scratching your eyes out of the picture: super cute

Why do so many children scratch the eyes out of family photographs?

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