Clothes hangers - charity shop or freecycle?

Wings_of_Ambition

Having a clear out today, and have a fair few clothes hangers to get rid of. Do charity shops usually need these, or do they tend to have too many as it is? If they won't use them, I'll freecycle them today.

manch235ter

i read an article the other day in the Manchester Evening News , that Chairty Shop Donations are down from about 450 bags a week to just 80 .

The charity shops believe it is because of things like Ebay/Freecycle etc .

In a way i agree , but will still use both sites BUT will still donate as much as possible to charity shops at the same time!

see http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1006/1006226_charity_hit_by_online_auctions_.html for info!

full-time-mum

Wings_of_Ambition wrote: »

Having a clear out today, and have a fair few clothes hangers to get rid of. Do charity shops usually need these, or do they tend to have too many as it is? If they won't use them, I'll freecycle them today.

If you have any children's hangers, your local National Childbirth Trust branch may like them for their Nearly New Clothes Sales when hangers become like golddust!

Contains_Mild_Peril

manch235ter wrote: »

i read an article the other day in the Manchester Evening News , that Chairty Shop Donations are down from about 450 bags a week to just 80 .

That might not be such a bad thing. I don't know about Manchester in particular, but I know that in some places, shops have been so indundated with donations and unwilling to sell stuff for next to nothing that they've ended up throwing out perfectly good stuff. The downside is that it tends to be the better stuff that people put on ebay where they might have given it to charity in the past.
My local Oxfam shop still won't accept kids' toys because if they do, they just get too many. The ones that they finish up with anyway (mixed in among bags of clothes and stuff or put in the container for donations outside a supermarket) are usually put in 99p bags each containing several small toys.
As for hangers, I think most charity shops have a surplus, and some use identical hangers issued to them to project a posher image, but it's probably worth asking if any can use them. Don't go in carrying them though, or they might feel obliged to take them off your hands then put them straight in the recycling bin.

LittleVoice

If the hangers are wooden or padded then they could be sold. (I've certainly bought such things in charity shops.) If they are thinnish plastic ones then see if they are the same as the ones any particular shop uses and then offer them.

bekkithedevil

When I tried to donate some hangers to a charity shop (bin liner full of them!) I was told they weren't allowed to accept them as they had to use their own. That was a few years ago though so it may have changed since then?

lamb7994

All the charity shop i manage for help the aged are not allowed to use normal hangers as the charity buys them in with our logo on.
To try and keep them looking tidy and of a simular type


James

Flimsy

I work in a charity shop too and all the hangers are the same as they have a peg for attaching the cube with the size on on the side.