Charity shop clothes

The Facebook pop up is very annoying. Can't the moderators do something to get rid of it? I'm just going to try the bottom up thingy as suggested!

I bought a lovely leather coat from a charity shop, got it home , put it in the spare room on the bed, went in the next day and the smell of fags was horrendous! Hadn't noticed it at all in the shop or in car on way home, I hung it in the garage abd outside on fine days and it still smelled awful.. In the end I put it in a strong bin bag with some cotton wool soaked in pure lavender oil.. It worked a treat... No faggy smell after a week... I suppose you could use any other essentual oil if you didn't like lavender. GLAD ITS NOT JUST ME HATING THE POP-UP!

Charity shops used to sell musty. I don’t know if the poorer ones still smell but where I volunteer the clothes must be spotless, steamed with bottled water and discarded if there’s a thread pulled or a loose button.
We get lots of very good expensive brands so not sold at jumble sale prices. I haven’t bought any new clothes for years and am wearing a cashmere jumper and Monsoon trousers.

Our local charity shops are a real credit to the staff - one in particular has such good window dressing that you might think it was an exclusive department store. However, one shop had such a revolting stench of sweat and stale odour that I wouldn't go in; someone told me later that it was the manager who smelled so badly and if you went in when he was off duty the shop was fine!

Ive already mentioned this on shampoo thread. Can't access top two threads on my phone. Glad it's not only me. I've complained to GN HQ and they say they'll see what they can do about it!!!!! We'll see too.

Me too. I can't access the first thread due to the very annoying Facebook pop up

Thank goodness - I thought that I was the only one getting that annoying pop-up (& being very irritated by it..!!!) GransNet HQ -STOP IT NOW...!!

Most charity shops here are spotless and smell lovely. Only one has a volunteer with a bo problem which may put people off but how can they tell him?

PLEASE REMOVE THE POP-UP I will not be forced to join Facebook and would be sad to give up Gransnet!

The shop I volunteer in smells just fine

I do know the smell you mean, though, and it would certainly put me off buying anything.

All our items are steamed (I think this is done in every charity shop these days?) - I think this is not exactly the same as cleaning/washing, but it seems to work.

I was thinking maybe steams 'sets' the pong into the fabric?

Yes, Blueskies, I'm annoyed. I can't access the first forum on today's batch of posts because I'm not on Facebook and I don't want to join Facebook.

Can,t access the first thread on the forum today owing to the Facebook pop up. Please can you get these removed. So irritating.i

I can’t believe that no one at HQ has yet commented! They are normally quick off the mark with posts when relevant. Perhaps they are all too red faced to talk to us about the wretched pop ups. It can’t be a revenue thing can it? If so, they are rapidly losing their audience.

Annoying pop up! Please sort it Gransnet - I keep this separate from Facebook as any problems I print sometimes involve facebook friends.

I donate all my unwanted clothes to charity. I make sure they are clean before they go even if they have to go for rags. The charity shops in our area are excellenct no bad smells. So we are lucky. There are so many of them competing for business it is so sad. Amazon

Quite agree with you don’t like this new pop up either please remove GN.

Phew glad to hear it's not just me 're Facebook

Yes gransnet, do not go down this incredibly annoying pop-up route. Or you may lose subscribers. Another forum I’m on tried it and soon had to lose it as it hacked off so many people.

Oh an I meant to say, charity shops always smell ‘old’. Assumed it was just because the clothes and books are old.

Pop up on top thread in the email notification so I can't read it. The others are fine. Very irritating. Please GN stop it.

Yes. I can’t get ro the post I want to read!

Yes! Very annoying.....all I want to do is read the posts.