Volunteer Spotlight: Carol Noble

1. What motivates you to volunteer?

I am retired but like to stay busy.  I interact best with people when working together to achieve something—that’s the way I socialize.  Volunteering is a way to meet people and achieve something.

2. Why ACR?

I like working with smart, creative people and Austin Creative Reuse fits that bill for me.

3. How long have you volunteered with ACR?

A little over 2 years

4. Are you more into the arts aspect of ACR or the conservation aspect and why?

A little into both.  I see possibilities in every scrap.  Also, I can’t stand to see anything be discarded before its useful life is over.  Just because something is no longer functional for its original purpose, there are usually ways it can be repurposed for longer useful life.

5. Where else have you/do you volunteer?

I have volunteered for Austin Women in Technology, Women Printmakers of Austin, Old Bakery, ROCK (Ride on Center for Kids), Cat Mountain Homeowners Association

6. What do you enjoy the most out of volunteering for ACR?

Seeing all of the interesting things that are donated.  It’s hard not to buy something every time I volunteer.  

7. Do you have any interesting or funny stories about something that happened while you were volunteering at ACR?

I love sewing patterns.  We get so many we discard the ones that have already been used.  I’m finally ok with discarding them, having spent hours online trying to find ways to reuse the pattern envelopes and tissue pieces.  We do reuse the larger pieces for packing breakables and share the tissue with other stores.  If anybody has good ideas on how to reuse crinkled up tissue pattern pieces or the patterns envelopes let me know!!!