Charity Bags!

Apologies if this has been put ... BUT ... read the back ... as the charities do not receive the goods ... a percentage of the money of the tonnage thats weighed in ... take it to a charity shop would get more money in selling the goods themselves ... such a shame when people give especially expensive clothes that do not go to the actuall charity ... when they think it does

We rarely get them but when we do they are usually for very well known charities. They always seem to arrive at the wrong time when I have just sent stuff to the local op shop.

Same as Davida1968.

I do not use the majority of these bags as I believe most are bogus, so will pass anything on to our church jumble sale which, afterwards, goes to local charity shops.

We use them for the bins. Old clothes etc go to our local community shop or Edinburgh Sick Children's charity bins.

I turn the bag inside out, fill it with items and take it to a charity shop.

Fine if you can get to a charity shop. Had a talk at my club about scams and apparently it varies whether the collections are genuine. Trades Description can tell you.

We live in a new town and there are no charity shops. We regularly get bags from the British Heart Foundation which are collected in marked vans so we do put them out. Other than that we have OxFam collection skips at Sainsburys which we sometimes use when they aren’t full.

The ones I receive are all for different charities but if I read the small print they are all sent out by the same company! I understand the charity is lucky if it gets 10p for every £1 the company makes. Like others I take mine direct to a shop run by a local charity. Most charity shops will take worn out clothes and sell them on to what we used to call rag merchants

There was a thread on our local Facebook page a while ago about the bogus companies pretending to be charities.

I save the bags for the litter picking events we have in our town.

HeavenLeigh

Are they, didn’t realise some are bogus, the vans that come to pick ours up are sign written with the logo on side, phone numbers and certainly seem genuine, none I’ve given to are plain white vans etc, that’s actually made me think now

Basically lots of the "genuine" ones give a tiny percentage to the charity they advertise - which technically makes them legal - but, it does mean that most of the benefits go to a private company. I think the way they advertise is bogus and misleading.

Our Ragman came this morning. 3 weeks of rag = £120.
That includes bags, shoes, and bedding. They won’t take duvets.
For some reason it’s been a day of sorting bags donated by relatives who’s relative has died.

I use the bags as bin liners and always take my own charity donations to a shop of my choice.

Charleygirl5

I agree with Jaxjacky I also take a bag locally rather than have it conveniently picked up outside my front door and where does it go after that?

I turn the free bag inside out so I am not advertising their wares and use it for rubbish so no wastage.

I do exactly the same Charleygirl5

What annoys me is that the bags COST money in the first place!!! so why not put the amount spent on them into the kitty to boost the coffers of the said charity its supposed to be helping.??????

I use for bin bags and instead take my unwanted clothes to a independent hospice shop that I know isn’t top heavy with management and funds reach the hospice directly.

Some of the charity bags seem to be genuine, but when you read the small print only a tiny amount of money is passed on to the charity concerned. I now take all my unwanted stuff to a charity shop.

Our charity shop will take disreputable clothes as they sell them by weight to the ragman.
I put anything like that in a separate bag, labelled.

TillyTrotter I understand what you are saying but my charity shop would not sell an item unless it looked almost perfect and certainly no signs of general wear and tear.

I have to thank a moth for lunching on one pair of trousers- not quite the same as ripped jeans which to my mind are hideous.

We haven’t had any for ages. However I have a big pile of stuff waiting to be taken to various charity shops.

Young people seem to have made a trend of wearing trousers with rips in Charley - so someone may be walking around wearing your trousers with a hole. ?
It is great if we can find a use for everything and cut waste in this country.

My local charity shop makes money if eg I have trousers with holes in them and they obviously could not be resold. They sell on the pile of unsellable items which is good- no wastage.

I use mine for recycling shredded paper, to stop it blowing all over the place. Anything for charity goes to the charity shop. If it's not good enough for the charity shop we get a textile and electricals recycling pickup with the normal recycling bins.

Elegran

I never seem to have any unwanted clothes to put in them. They make good binbags. I always feel grateful to the charities, genuine or bogus, for saving me a little money.

Me too.

I’m in a small housing development and over the years when we’ve had various bags delivered, they’re only rarely collected, so I just take mine to the SA collection bin.

I never seem to have any unwanted clothes to put in them. They make good binbags. I always feel grateful to the charities, genuine or bogus, for saving me a little money.