Do You Donate Clothes

[blackrock13]

A good thing, but look a little deeper. CBC did.

The bins are often owned by companies who pay peanuts to the noted charity in the neighbourhood of $2000 a month, sort and clean the clothes sell them to second hand stores or send overseas, much of that for sale there to the tune of ~$175 million.

The one company I did look into some years back sent all it collected clothes overseas for resale and even owned the ships used to send the cargo to India.

 

[Powershot]

Drop them off directly at Goodwill, Salvation Army, Value Village locations I guess to be confident in who is making $$.

 

[blackrock13]

Drop them off directly at Goodwill, Salvation Army, Value Village locations I guess to be confident in who is making $$.

Good Will isn't much different as they are a US company with a retail outlet, but better than most as they are up front about it. The SA has found many of it's boxes sabotaged because of their success in this turf war.

 

[letsn0twastetime]

someone use to come to my door step to pick it up, they would call a week before and ask you to label a bag and leave it at the frontdoor to pick it up that day.

 

[red]

i go around and force poor people to put on my clothes- that way I know they get to the right people

 

[Rockslinger]

Oh, I thought the OP needed clothes. Hee, hee, hee.

Yes, I donate to the Salvation Army.

 

[Aardvark154]

Good Will isn't much different as they are a US company with a retail outlet, but better than most as they are up front about it.

Good Will is quite open about the fact that most donated clothing is sold to raise money that is then used for their outreach programs. Further the majority of those who shop at Good Will Stores are not in the top ten percent of incomes.

 

[69Shooter]

Good Will is quite open about the fact that most donated clothing is sold to raise money that is then used for their outreach programs. Further the majority of those who shop at Good Will Stores are not in the top ten percent of incomes.

Maybe not the top 10% but not necessarily poor either. People expect to find really good deals there. Point is, regardless of who buys, the proceeds are going towards GW outreach programs.

 

[IRIS]

I send my clothes to my cuban friends directly. They are really happy and I know who got my stuffs.
I don't beleive any charity. I think 90% of them are just legalized thiefs . I know not everyone there a criminal, but many of the owners, worster than the tough gangsters in the prison. The different: They got medal of honor because they stole money on smart way but the regular John Doe got 5 years asshole expanded program for the same thing.

 

[avxl1003]

Everybody knows somebody who's hard up.. Just donate directly to them.

When I was a kid, we didn't have much money and I used to love hand-me-downs.. Then again, we were the poor kids that lived on the edge of the Kingsway so hand-me-downs were Roots, Guess, Levis, etc.,. It was better than buying new!

These days I have a number of cousins-in-law that my wife and I routinely offer clothing to.. The stuff they don't take usually gets taken to the local Goodwill.

Also, in the winter I usually take some blankets downtown and hand them directly to the homeless..

 

[sailorsix]

Of course the Reform party fart catchers here have no idea what we are talking about because they:
1. would never listen to / watch CBC or believe anything CBC says;
2. don't do "Poor people".

It was interesting the revenues being taken....$12,000 a week by a truck driver. The mob is going to get into this business...if they aren't already.

If you don't have friends or relatives who can use your castoffs then ONLY give them to the Sally Ann, Goodwill or the diabetic folks.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

IRIS don't forget to send a garbage bag of thongs

 

[wigglee]

I shop at value village, so usually donate there too.

 

[shack]

i go around and force poor people to put on my clothes- that way I know they get to the right people

I like it. Eliminate the middle man.

 

[Lovemsog]

We buy rags for the shop, I once picked them up at the supplier, they just have piles of donated clothes and cut them up into pieces.

 

[djk]

Drop them off directly at Goodwill, Salvation Army, Value Village locations I guess to be confident in who is making $$.

I do the same.

 

[night ride]

Drop them off directly at Goodwill, Salvation Army, Value Village locations I guess to be confident in who is making $$.

Value Village is flying under the radar for most people by offering a few pennies to the Canadian Diabetes Association for use of their logo/name. VV is an American owned for-profit company. I definitely do not donate anything to them, but I see them out-hustling the local real charities. They seem to like locating across the street from the real charities.

 

[The Fruity Hare]

I shop at value village, so usually donate there too.

Did you ever get home and realize you bought your own stuff?

 

[The Fruity Hare]

i go around and force poor people to put on my clothes- that way I know they get to the right people

Kind of like a reverse swarming. Do you make them wear all your "Where's Waldo" type shirts and crocs too?

 

[shakenbake]

I shop at value village, so usually donate there too.

Value Village is a for profit organisation that does not help the poor.