How to Donate, Rest & Recharge in Pgh This Weekend
Can you believe it’s almost NYE? If your resolutions include getting to know Pittsburgh, there’s no one better than Hey Pittsburgh newsletter editor Francesca Dabecco. She’s got suggestions for where to donate unused items, get local handmade soaps, and snap up some delicious treats to keep you cozy into 2024.
- Explore zero waste cleaning products The Refillery.
- Donate your old clothes to Free Store 15104.
- Light a candle-- Francesca loves Cinnamon and Rosemary from Chez Lapin.
- Francesca plans on reading Pride & Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott and finding books at City Books.
- You can catch up on Francesca's neighborhood guides. (Here is her Millvale one)
- The City Cast Pittsburgh Episodes Francesca will be revisiting are: The Wildest Pgh Insults from the Past 200 Years and Is Pittsburgh the Midwest? Or Part of Appalachia?
- Cook up local grub with goods from the local delivery service Harvie. Francesca wants to try Fun-Gal Farms mushrooms and Forma Pgh Pasta.
- Write Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Collage Collective hosts a variety of events.
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