Cash for clothes

zaksmum

Just had a massive clearout to free up some storage space, and filled about 6 bin bags of old clothes.

There's a clothing recycling place nearby which offers about 50p a kilo for unwanted clothes so I rang them to check their opening times thinking I'd take the stuff there rather than chuck it all out.

Waste of time. They said they won't accept any clothing that's not modern and in excellent condition. They don't want plus sizes, faded jeans, anything bobbled or with buttons missing or school uniforms among other items. In short, most of the stuff I was going to take to them.

So looks like I'll just have to chuck it all away after all.:(

DCFC79

Why chuck it away ?

Why not give it to the charity shops or any homeless shelters.

Not having used the shelters im not sure what condition they will accept, just a thought.

paddyrg

Wow, those 'recyclers' want to have their cake and eat it! Considering your gear will end up in for-profit shops in Eastern Europe, why not let a charity shop have the first pickings here, then anything they can't get value from goes to Eastern European dealers, then those that are unsellable go for rags (eg packing blankets)

battleborn

"modern and in excellent condition. They don't want plus sizes, faded jeans, anything bobbled or with buttons missing or school uniforms"

You cant expect some poor Africa to walk around in a 33 size stripy dress from the 70's, or even be cruel allowing a child to play with his/her friends in your old knee high school socks and green pleated school skirt.

Get wid di program.

Be_Happy

You're lucky you phoned first. Going in can be really embarrassing.

I went in to Cash 4 Clothes recently for the first time. Long queue in shop and assistant takes each item out of your bag and holds it up to check it before putting it in container on scales or giving it back to you as rejected. Imagine clothes which you thought were in good condition, but are not even good enough for charity!!

Man in front of me was so disgusted he walked out and left his bag of rejected clothes on the floor.

My 'rejects' was cloth that I'd bought to make curtains, but never got around to making up. Thought this might have come in useful for someone.

System

The problem is that decent clothes are so cheap now, eg you can buy t shirts for a couple of quid at primark, that people are less inclined to buy tatty looking clothes from charity shops.

They only want clothes they can sell.

zaksmum

I realise that now. I was under the impression that because they advertised that they wanted clothing by the kilo, they just wanted them for rags or whatever they recycle them for.

I had no idea they wanted designer stuff at 50p a kilo. Silly me!

maninthestreet

My local Sainsbury has a Salvation Aermy clothes bank where you can dump your (clean) unwanted clothes without anyone passing judgement on them.....

MamaMoo_2

There's a place near me that will give you £20 for a 10kg bag of designer stuff, as long as they are all BNWT.
If I had 10kg of BNWT designer gear, I'd flo it for a profit on eBay rather than give it to those cheeky sods!
When I worked in a charity shop we took everything. If we couldn't sell it, the rag man would pay a good price for it. Every item helped.
Nowadays it seems that charities want everything for nothing.

paulineb_2

I take the stuff thats not fit for sale to the charity shops for rag, I believe it gets sold on to recycling companies and then sent on to the third world, same with shoes, I even give my old bras, dont like anything going into landfill. I used to volunteer for the red cross and they happily take unsaleable stuff for rag.

paulineb_2

And people are donating less to charity shops because of the cash for clothes shops.