It’s time to clean out your closets.

The Tahoma Junior High Parent Teacher Association, which also serves Tahoma and Cedar River Middle Schools, is collecting clothes and other textiles next week.

The PTA is partnering with Clothes for the Cause to help keep household textiles out of landfills and to raise money for the PTA. They are looking for donations of clothes, towels, sheets, blankets, stuffed animals, shoes, gloves, hats and more. Any condition is fine, because items that are no longer usable in their current state will be recycled, and the ones that are still usable will be donated.

Donations will be collected at Tahoma Middle School from Nov. 17 -19. Then at noon on Nov. 19, the truck will be moved to Cedar River Middle School where it will stay until the end of the school day Friday, Nov. 21.

The PTA’s goal is to get over 500 bags of donations. If donations exceed a certain weight, the amount per pound that the PTA receives increases, says Kartha Keinz, PTA president for Cedar River Middle School.

Clothes for the Cause said it recycles or reuses about 95 percent of the donated textiles they receive. Forty-five percent is donated back as usable clothing, 20 percent is converted into new fibers and 30 percent is remade into wiping cloths.

There are a few things that are not accepted during the fundraiser. These items include glass, breakables, electronics, pet beds, bed pillows, uniforms, carpeting, hotel linens or items previously for sale at a thrift store.

Money earned from the fundraiser will be split between Tahoma Middle School, Cedar River Middle School and Tahoma Junior High.