FabSwingers.com forum: All bagged up and about to dump a load...

By *ev-P OP Man
over a year ago

Hampshire

...of clothes. Just had a good old wardrobe clear out and off to put them in for resale or recycling in one of those charity bins. I usually put them in the Air Ambulance or one of the children's charity bins.

Just wondering what others do with their unwanted items of clothing or household goods?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I take old clothes to either the charity shop. Or I give them to homeless folk i see sleeping rough.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

"...of clothes. Just had a good old wardrobe clear out and off to put them in for resale or recycling in one of those charity bins. I usually put them in the Air Ambulance or one of the children's charity bins.

Just wondering what others do with their unwanted items of clothing or household goods?."

I always put something in the charity bags

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I take mine to homeless hostels or homeless on the streets if I see any before I get to the hostels, thank you for the reminder it’s time I had a sort out

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Just wondering what others do with their unwanted items of clothing or household goods?."

Charity shops! I'm an avid purchaser too - I just got a little leather Tignanello backpack for festivals for £2.50 this morning, I have a bit of radar for branded leather goods in charity shops lol!

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

Some things I give to a colleague as she volunteers for a homeless charity in Glasgow. The rest has been donated to charity shops.

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By *ransGuyTV/TS
over a year ago

Cardiff

I've not long completed my Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up journey (a method and book by Marie Kondo). I used to hoard and would always struggle with clutter, until I came across her method. It totally changed my view of my things.

The method is all about what life I want to live and what things I want to keep (instead of focusing on what to let go) and, if trusted and stuck to, the method really works and is a one time thing. Although changes in circumstances or lack of trust in the method may results in another go through.

The reason why I mention it is because all the stuff I let go of needed to go somewhere! So my exit strategies were -

Charity shops, there are so many where I live so could share all the stuff out between them. Even if clothes aren't wearable make up a "rag bag" and they will still get something for them.

Facebook groups, either to sell stuff or give it away for free. It's a good way of finding other charities too, a lot of my craft stuff went directly to groups who needed it.

eBay for items where the return was worth the effort. Amazon too, but it's getting harder to compete with the big companies who sell on there and always undercut you.

I did a couple of car boot sales at the start, but everyone wants something for nothing so it got too disheartening to do.

Local free bring and take events. If anything doesn't go then it tends to end up in charity shops anyway but at least some people get a chance of a freebie.

Some H&M stores will give you a money off voucher per bag of clothes. I didn't bother, I'm too fat for their boring clothes!

And for the days when my mental health was more important to me than a hallway blocked with stuff ready to go - in the recycling. This wasn't often but sometimes it was just too much to sit there and go through another category (the method is all about categories not rooms) pick out all the bits that *might* be useful to someone, find that someone, contact them, arrange pic up, have it all sat there waiting...

It's not easy but it is so worth the hard work!

But yeah, that's where all my stuff went

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By *ev-P OP Man
over a year ago

Hampshire

Wherever you donate every little helps someone in need.

Must remember to 'bag up' more often

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

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I give absolutely loads to a local charity shop and I also pop in a couple of times a week and see if there's anything I'm interested in buying.

It is very bizarre how eclectic their selection is.

( thread suggestion.. Best find in a charity shop)

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

I take all of my unwanted stuff to a charity shop, we have at least a dozen in our small town.

I could sell stuff myself but I just can't be arsed

I do browse the charity shops occasionally too. My most frequent purchase is knitting yarn, patterns and needles. Often when people pass away their relatives will give all of their knitting stuff to charity. You can pick up some real bargains and I like to think the deceased would be pleased if they knew someone else was actually making use of them.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I had a Help the Heroes charity bag through the door the other day so that's where my stuff is going this time

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By *atietvsheffTV/TS
over a year ago

Sheffield

Your’e lucky you only have one wardrobe to keep on top of, being a tv Costs twice as much and takes up more than twice the space!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I had a Help the Heroes charity bag through the door the other day so that's where my stuff is going this time

Be careful of the charity bags posted through your doors, they aren't always genuine!!!! Check that they are going to the right charity and not some dodgy scammer who are making their profit through these donations, using genuine companies logos etc...

We send our unwanted items to the local charity shops x

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