Goods to Charity - house clearing

Silvertabby wrote: »

Not a house clearance, but when replaced our suite we offered the old one to a local charity who helped to furnish properties allocated to people who were in dire straights/ex homeless.

The suite was about 8 years old, had fire labels in place, and was spotless - no kids, no dogs, no smokers.

The charity rejected it because 'it wasn't modern enough for our clients'.

We ended up paying over £20 for the big bin men to take it away.

And this is why my preference would be to get a charity to clear the house, rather than faffing around with one charity taking some but not all, and potentially leaving less 'good stuff' for whoever does the clearance, if that's a charity.

Knowing what we paid for a professional house clearance, next time (if there is a next time) I would very happily let a charity take the lot.

Mind you, that house clearance was worth every penny to us: it was done it stages so that we could leave the house 'staged' while it was sold, and it was left immaculate. Also we knew that they were recycling as much a humanly possible.