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    Today someone thought we would like to add to our products for sale:

    One bag containing two loaves of old bread,two carrots,underwear(used)and socks
    One bag containing jigsaws(all handily marked missing 1,2 or 3 pieces)
    One bag of Christmas hats

    No wonder our profits will be soaring...

    At least it's better than the store I worked for where we collected donations and people soon realized- putting out hedge trimmings and garden rubble for council to collect-charge,putting them out for charity to collect-free...
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    You really want to ask people like this how much THEY would pay for what they just dumped at your shop ...

    My favourite donate-to thrift shop has pretty limited storage space, so I hang onto my seasonal stuff until the relevant season comes around again.
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    • #3
      Our library had to stop taking donations after Irma because people thought it was acceptable to donate books that were not only moldy and mildewed but sometimes still wet. But according to them "they are in good condition." Makes me wonder what they consider bad condition to be...

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      • #4
        Quoth Iolanthe View Post
        Our library had to stop taking donations after Irma because people thought it was acceptable to donate books that were not only moldy and mildewed but sometimes still wet. But according to them "they are in good condition." Makes me wonder what they consider bad condition to be...
        Readable, probably, in our post-literate society.
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        • #5
          I feel your pain. My mother used to be manageress of the warehouse where donations for the local hospice were taken to be sorted. The things people would donate were beyond belief.

          There was a good reason everyone had to wear gloves, and always tip the sack out onto the sorting table rather than reach into the bag.
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          • #6
            Quoth greek_jester View Post
            ... always tip the sack out onto the sorting table rather than reach into the bag.
            The RSPCA would like to know how you got that wolverine in the bag...
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            • #7
              Well Saturdays crop was a cat basket,carving knife (fortunately still boxed) a giant Bob the Bu Ilder and a terrifying demonic mask which actually suits Bob rather well...
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              • #8
                Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
                Well Saturdays crop was a cat basket,carving knife (fortunately still boxed) a giant Bob the Bu Ilder and a terrifying demonic mask which actually suits Bob rather well...
                I'm guessing the cat basket fails decontamination capability? The last couple of things sound to me like a perfectly good mascot...

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                • #9
                  Quoth Pixelated View Post
                  You really want to ask people like this how much THEY would pay for what they just dumped at your shop ...
                  You'd be surprised at what people try to donate, and it doesn't have to be a Goodwill/Salvation Army type store either. For years, my scout troop would host a garage sale at the borough building. People would send over all sorts over all sorts of shit. Things like broken, rusty tools, appliances (seriously, nobody is going to buy that beat-up 1970s TV), worn-out car parts, broken furniture, etc. What took the cake, was some loser trying to foist a "collection" of rusty metal spice containers and moldy plastic butter tubs. Who the hell would buy those things? We quit holding the sale, just because of the cheap bastards--they'd demand a tax deduction for the 'donation' and we'd get stuck with their shit, which we'd have to dispose of. We'd actually *lose* money on it
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                  • #10
                    Quoth protege View Post
                    You'd be surprised at what people try to donate, and it doesn't have to be a Goodwill/Salvation Army type store either.
                    Can't say as that I'm surprised at what people will try to "donate".....especially after some of the stuff we've gotten at the library. I recall one day when someone dumped a bunch of children's books into our "book return slots", and not only were the books in bad shape, but they were scribbled/written in with crayons and markers.


                    Other times, let's just say that I really wish we could tell people that the library can't use their very outdated encyclopedia sets, college textbooks, medical reference books, or National Geographic magazines.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth KellyHabersham View Post

                      Other times, let's just say that I really wish we could tell people that the library can't use their very outdated encyclopedia sets, college textbooks, medical reference books, or National Geographic magazines.
                      The college textbooks I could understand depending on the age of said book. If you attend a college where their bookstore doesn't do buybacks (we're linked with a chain of bookstores that do, but when I was at uni, they did not), if you can't foist them off on Gumtree, then the library is kind of a last resort.

                      When my partner and I were trying to fob off a whole bunch of books, we did contact our local library to query the possibility of donating some of the non-textbook stuff, but we ended up taking them to a secondhand bookstore. The guy offered to take all of them off our hands for $1 per book, even if the chance of them getting sold was almost zilch. (We treated ourselves to lunch that day at a cafe near my work)

                      The magazines, encyclopaedia sets and medical reference books however, are definitely understandable - there's only so far back that you can go.

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