CLEVELAND — With a new year comes new goals for the next 365 days. A common resolution is to improve oneself or help others.

For many, this means cleaning out and decluttering their home.

Laura Potter-Sadowski, the director of ReStores for the Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, explained that this is one of the store’s busiest times of the year, as they see an influx of donations.

“We see a big uptick with people kind of in the winter project mode,” Potter-Sadowski said. “They are trying to clean and declutter.”

She said receiving more donations means the chance for Habitat for Humanity to help more people as it keeps gently used home goods out of the landfill.

“I know that we had record-breaking sales for our three stores, which is super exciting,” she explained. “So we did 2.8 million between our three stores, so that is almost 2,000 tons that is diverted [from the landfill].”

Luckily, with the influx, collecting the donations from people’s homes and transporting them to the ReStores was made easier last year thanks to a grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

“Because we are able to divert so much from the landfills, we could use that towards grant funding to purchase new vehicles so that we can go out in the community and pick up more donations,” she explained.

Potter-Sadowski encourages anyone who is decluttering or looking to redecorate to stop by a ReStore.

“It really is kind of a community impact that we are having here so that makes it different, it is not a traditional thrift store,” she said. “It’s connecting you with a million people who are out here doing good under that Habitat umbrella.”