Health and safety gone mad!

In the 70's I worked for Social Services, and one of my jobs was issuing aids. The car park was a fair walk from the office, and I hated walking up the busy road with raised toilet seats. Many a hoot and a chortle from a lorry driver!

Tried taking the car seats to our local woman’s refuge first midgey, with a load of other stuff. They weren’t able to take them either.

MamaCaz I have only just realised what I said

Oh dear, a little stool so that DGC could stand on it to wash their hands.
Which I now use to reach things out of cupboards (waiting for it to give way each time I use it!).

Yes, one used twice pram mattress and one hardly used JL cot mattress lingering around here too.

CDs or DVDs can become offensive weapons if snapped in two as well - so it is odd that you can buy them when you go through to Duty Free.

You could strangle them with the sleeves of a jumper! Ambush them with a quilt cover!

Jalima1108
I did buy a set of potty and little stool

Jalima,that post is still making me chuckle - I am picturing a potty that came with a little poo!

In response to the OP, though, I agree. It reminds me of the fairly recent policy of several well known charity shops of no longer selling knitting needles. The argument is that they could be used as a weapon against the staff. Yet knives (basic cutlery) is still widely available in both charity shops and regular shops. I don't get it!

Raised toilet “thrones” are available through SS OT departments. Around here a company called Millbrook Health Care are the providers
I understand everything is scrupulously steam cleaned before being issued.

A local women’s refuge might be very grateful for things a charity may not want.

You can get a basic potty from IKEA for £2 and a "posher" one for £6

The Red Cross no longer supply used raised toilet seats on loan. You can buy one from them at a very reasonable price though. A "One Bottom" policy I guess!

Do try Freecycle. People are often very grateful for quite used things.

Second-hand mattresses could increase the risk of cot death, experts have warned. The risk is increased if the mattress was previously used by a child from another home, according to research.

No cot mattresses either Bluebelle! I could not find a home for a hardly used cot-bed mattress - and two car seats in good condition had to go into landfill too. Apparently I could have sold them at a car boot sale, and I have now discovered a local on-line car boot on Facebook which would have been very useful.

We live in a market town with good footfall outside our house and usually anything we want to re-home vanishes very quickly if we put it by the gate with a 'Free' sign on it. But not the car seats or the mattress (which could have been re-used for something else). Very surprising, but I assume parents want new for their offspring.

Have you tried Mumsnet Local Jane?

We sell potties in our charity shop usually £2 for the ‘posh’ ones I ve never had one come in that looked even remotely used ......however there are a number of things we can’t sell and the list is increasing
No fancy dress since Claudia Winklemans child got burnt
No high chairs, prams, or pushchairs for safety reasons but we can sell cots, Moses baskets on stands, and travel cots !!!
No duvets for cleanliness no sleeping bags (although both are totally cleanable /washable)
No kids bikes
If something is washable or cleanable there is absolutely no reason for not selling it or passing it on how can a plastic potty cause a problem if you can put it is soapy water obviously we would never sell anything that looked well used but I ve never had a dirty potty come into the shop

I remember as a student nurse putting all the metal bedpans in the stereliser, they were then too hot to use so we had to get new ones from the store cupboard ?

Oh good, they should have potties in Aldi the, well done GillT57!
Although I accepted a 2nd hand one (hardly used) I knew exactly where it had come from, it had been bleached then dettoxed again by me; I wouldn't buy one from a charity shop.

Aldi have baby and toddler week next week, equipment at brilliant prices. Although I understand your logic, I would not buy a second hand potty.

Yep. I have scrubbed many a bed pan myself as a nurse from the pre disposable bedpan generation of nurses and a horrible job it was too.

Well, JL has a sturdy looking one for £5.95, although there are more expensive ones online, all singing, all dancing.

The JL one looks as if it would do the job.

I don't know, my neighbour gave me one for the DGC, well-scrubbed and I knew whose bottoms had been on it so was quite happy for the DGC to use it.
I bought the set from Lidl because it had a toddler toilet seat and a stool as well. As soon as DGD saw the toilet seat she refused to use the potty - progress.

How much would you expect to pay for a second-hand potty?

Jane - Have you tried Freecycle or Freegle?. I'm sure I've seen them advertised on our local group. Can't see the problem with using second hand ones. We all use toilets that other people have sat on don't we?

DGS went straight to child seat on toilet - he would not contemplate a potty! I wouldn't buy a second hand one - yuck - reminds me of the re-usable bedpans I had to scrub with Thompsons cleaner on night duty as a student nurse!

Ohhps sorry crossed threads!!

That's true,LyndaW, it will come & it will go.Also sad to say there are still people in the world with little or no clothes.?

Seems so wasteful, doesn't it?

Actually Bridgeit, that's not quite right. They may already be manufactured but buying one will only mean the manufacturer will make more to replace that is bought. If we stop buying unnecessarily, then suppliers will stop making unnecessarily.