Charity bags Q

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How many charity bags can you fill in a month let alone a year?

We seem to be bombarded in our street with door to door deliverers who shove these bags through the letterbox almost every day!

It's really getting beyond a joke. If I catch them at the door and say I don't want it the deliverer will just ignore me, so straight in the recycle bin it goes! Apparantly the 'no junkmail' signs dont cover such post!

We struggle to find enough clothes to recycle once a year let alone this amount. As we are fighting finances ourselves we wear our clothes until they will only fit the dustbin. Same with all the other bric-a-brac. Besides this we can't exactly tell which are genuine or not and if we did have stuff we would take it to the shops on the highstreet anyway and have more of a chance they go to genuine people.

I tried to make a collection of all the bags but I filled a bin liner by the end of January and gave up. :eek: I was going to keep a tally and post them all back at the end of the year to the relevant charities with a letter of complaint. I understand these delivery people only have a job to do, but even so why is our street which is off the main path targetted constantly?

Sorry for the rant but is there anything I can do about it? :mad:

hcb42

just pass them back to them, or pass them on to someone.

Put a sign in the door , although not sure how this will be effective, if you havent managed to say no to them when you are stood there..!

I hardly get any.

Chell

We get several some days. I don't mind, it saves me from buying bin bags.

With three children out growing clothes I do donate a lot to charity. We're movig house so I have given away a lot recently. I prefer to take things directly to the shop. That way I know they've got to my chosen charity!

sarahg1969

Half of the ones we get through our door aren't even for charities. They are for companies that sell the clothes on. I get really cross when I see my neighbours have been duped into leaving full bags on their driveways. I personally save the bags and use them for rubbish, etc.

McKneff

Please read the bags carefully, 95% of them are from profit making companies who give a percentage of their profits to the chairty.
This is sent to the charity on the bag, This is a percentage of the Profit after wages salairies, vehicles, and everything else it takes to run a business,

If you can, take them directly to the charity, if you have a few bags, ring the chairty shop up and on a lot of occasions they will come and pick them up.

The only ones I can think of that are legit are the Air Ambulance and British Heart Foundation.

And yes, recycle your bags, use them as bin bags.

hippygran

They make excellent liners for cat litter trays too!

pleasedelete

hippygran wrote: »

They make excellent liners for cat litter trays too!

Are you cats lions?

How big a litter tray do you have to need a bin bag size?

pleasedelete

I live in a posh street in a posh town. We get dozens.

My friend half a mile away gets much less. Makes me laugh. On our road the mortgages are too big to have money to buy designer stuff!

I sell my stuff on ebay and gift aid the money to charity. Or I drive it to nearby less affluent town to a charity I support where I know it gets sold. In our town a lot gets dumped as more givers than buyers at times.

Tangible

They are quite useful as refuse bags so, though I get peeved collecting them up on a near daily basis, I will miss them when it's finally realised they're wasting their time.

I can't say that I've ever seen one filled awaiting collection. If I still received pre-paid marketing envelopes I could dispose of them that way, and the irony would be satisfying.

I'm not aware of any law that allows anyone to push any old rubbish through my letterbox, in the same way that a ring of my doorbell doesn't oblige me to answer it, even if I'm in. I don't look for an argument over the issue, though I could, and I therefore achieve the same end by different methods.

I could never get over the catalogues pushed through the letterbox that I was supposed to leave out if I didn't want anything. I'm sure I'm turning in to Victor Meldrew. If they wanted it back they should have put it on a piece of string perhaps.

qetu1357

McKneff wrote: »

Please read the bags carefully, 95% of them are from profit making companies who give a percentage of their profits to the chairty.
This is sent to the charity on the bag, This is a percentage of the Profit after wages salairies, vehicles, and everything else it takes to run a business,

If you can, take them directly to the charity, if you have a few bags, ring the chairty shop up and on a lot of occasions they will come and pick them up.

The only ones I can think of that are legit are the Air Ambulance and British Heart Foundation.

And yes, recycle your bags, use them as bin bags.

You are sarahg1969 are quite right.

Also, I am afraid, beware that when you hand out for a genuine charity these false people can come along and take the stuff too.

Best take to a charity shop direct and if you take M&S clothes to Oxfam you get M&S money off vouchers

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/secondhandstore/fashion/ms_clothes_exchange.html?ito=2841&itc=0

luxor4t

Some of the bags I get state they can be left out empty & will then be collected again....well, two were, the others were still there at the end of the day!