Too much stuff for me to take to charity shop???

MrsASmith

Am posting for a bit of advice or help. I am constantly sorting throught things and recently just cleared my spare room, the outcome of which is now in excess of 8/9 bags and 3/4 boxes of stuff for charity. The problem I have now is getting it to a Charity shop. Althought I drive my son is only 2 and I wouldnt be able to get all this stuff in my car and to a charity shop (no parking close enough to the shops I know) with my son in tow. We do regulary get bags through our door for charity collection however I am reluctant to leave on the doorstep as we have had a lot of bogus collections in our area.

Could any one point me in the right direction with this? Do you think I could call a charity and ask them to collect?

Sorry for the long winded question and thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Thebestmumalive

I rang one of our local charity shops and they arranged to collect but I had to wait about 2 weeks before they had a van available in my area.

MrsASmith

Thanks Thebestmumalive, think I may try to call a local charity shop. I dont mind if it takes a little while to collect just as long as I know there genuine.

whitewing

Depending on what you're donating, some supermarkets/shopping centres have large bins that you can donate stuff into. We did this after my Nan died and my aunty couldn't face taking all her familiar clothes to the local charity shops.

MrsASmith

whitewing wrote: »

Depending on what you're donating, some supermarkets/shopping centres have large bins that you can donate stuff into. We did this after my Nan died and my aunty couldn't face taking all her familiar clothes to the local charity shops.

Thanks for this info. Our local supermarket does have a shoe collection point but not to sure for the other things. All the stuff is jumbled up in bags now so I think it may be easier to call the shop and arrange a collection.

MrsASmith

Just googled one of the charity shops that I know, and was pleased to find a donation collection request form that I have been able to fill in and send online. Great.