Little Free Failure of Capitalism - Restock: December 2024
Read this online at https://lffc.us/posts/restock-2024-12/.
Welcome to the Restock!
Updates and Changes
Not so many changes this month. We got hats and gloves back into the cabinets, and we continued to see increased usage, even with a brief unavoidable pause in restocking for much of a week. It’s clear there is a huge amount of unmet need—and as Bruce Harrell and Ann Davison continue to weaponize the police against the houseless, I have no doubt that needs will increase going forward.
Monthly Usage
This month, we distributed:
- 168 pairs of thermal socks
- 75 pairs of thermal gloves
- 69 warm hats
- 820 Band-Aids
- 61 CoBan rolls
- 34 gauze pads
- 346 nitrile gloves
- 182 masks (N95 and KF94)
- 16 tubes of sunscreen (still useful in the winter!)
- 123 doses of ibuprofen
- 45 pairs of earplugs
- 214 pairs of handwarmers
- 98 ponchos
- 45 pencils
- 38 bars of soap
- 97 toothbrushes
- 64 tubes of toothpaste
- 120 tampons
- 29 menstrual pads (across all sizes)
- 121 condoms, and 161 lubricant packets
- 24 soil lead tests, and three ten-packs of object lead tests
- 30 boxes (60 doses) of naloxone
Our COGGA for this month is $949.23, not including naloxone, condoms, lubricants, or lead tests (all of which are provided by outside groups at no cost to us).
We received two donations this month from Harley LaRoux and Erin Condit-Bergren. Thank you so much for your generosity!
2024 Summary
We started on Labor Day Weekend 2024, so essentially September 1. In four continuous months of operation, we’ve given away in total:
- 620 pairs of socks
- 171 pairs of warm gloves, and 69 hats
- 460 condoms, and 334 packets of lubricant
- 75 boxes of naloxone (150 doses)
- 1,760 Band-Aids
- 114 CoBan rolls
- 97 gauze pads
- 911 nitrile gloves
- 342 masks
- 48 tubes of sunscreen
- 278 doses of ibuprofen
- 493 pairs of handwarmers
- 169 ponchos
- 101 pencils
- 101 bars of soap
- 161 toothbrushes, and 107 tubes of toothpaste
- 439 period products of various sorts
The COGGA in this period has been $2,345.82.
Not bad for a cabinet on a driveway.
Conclusion
That’s it for this month’s Restock! If there’s more information you’d like to know, please feel free to use our Suggestions Form or email us at info@lffc.us.