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I love the extra layer of obliviousness that assumed any of the quoted prices was a reduction - when I go to the store for ingredients for chilli, does this mean I should be charged the cost of the meat minus the cost of the beans?!This was one of those times where my mouth says "have a nice day" but my brain says "go step on a Lego". - RegisterAce
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I'm one of the needy, and I do care.
Oh, sure, for 'around the house' wear, I'll wear what's practical. But I don't want to end up in a 'people of walmart' sort of page! When I'm out, I want to dress like a normal person, not a bag of rags.
Even when I'm home, unless I'm doing something messy, it's nicer to wear something that I feel like a human being in!
Besides, those of us at this level of needy aren't the ones bringing in money for St Vinnies or Lifeline or the Salvos. It's people one step up from me who can buy stuff at charity shops.Seshat's self-help guide:
1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.
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Quoth MoonCat View PostI find it odd that so many people want to go cheap when they donate anything. Or shoddy. I know someone who donates her used clothing to charity when it gets stained or torn. "The needy don't care."
I said, "What makes you think needy people want to wear stained, torn clothes? You don't." She didn't have an answer for that.
2) In my family we did donate our torn or stained clothing to charity; the charity my mother worked at as the manageress of the sorting warehouse. Any clothes that weren't saleable as they were (and weren't covered in something like blood which went straight in the skip) was bagged up and sold to the rag man for 50p a sack. That meant that 99.9% of the donated clothing, regardless of quality, made the charity money."It is traditional when asking for help or advice to listen to the answers you receive" - RealUnimportant
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There is another community board I frequent in which there is a thread about people who assume that crafts/hobbies are easy, fast, cheap, and the hobbyist should be glad, glad, glad to give the stuff away.
I'll give gifts of my crafts to my family, but that is it. I pour too much of myself into my crafts to treat it so lightly.To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
To pursue it with forks and hope;
To threaten its life with a railway share;
To charm it with forks and hope!
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Every year, I hand make fabric calendars (with sequins and beads) for my favorite charity to sell at their annual charity auction. (They actually sell pretty well and always for more than my materials costs.)
I never tell people why I'm making them anymore because without fail, they want me to give them one as well. But, but, but...you are making them to give away! ARGH!!!
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Quoth greek_jester View Post1) Yes, the needy do care. The needy would like to feel like normal human beings too, thank you so very much.
If we don't want to sell it to paying customers, why would we want to give it away to a food bank? Wouldn't having to eat stale food make the needy feel even worse about their situation?Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
"I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily
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I think I might be an outlier when it comes to thrift store blankets and towels. I look for the stained and frayed ones. This isn't because I'm going to ask for a discount on 50 cent towels, its because I volunteer for an animal rescue group and we use them for the animals. People who are going to use them for people uses will want the nice ones for their homes, cats and dogs don't care.
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Irv, you'd be surprised what people will eat. Just check out the dumpster diving reddit board.
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In reference to the OP's "customer", the one's I hate most are the ones who get something at a discount or even for free on the grounds of it being for charity, and then decide they like it too much to give away and just toss cash at the charity... usually nowhere near as much as the item is worth.
As for the food past its expiration: a lot of those dates have very little to do with food safety or freshness. As near as I can tell, it's the date after which the company won't guarantee freshness and won't give you your money back for it. It's often still perfectly edible and very tasty, depending of course on the actual item's condition. YMMV.Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull
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Quoth Slave to the Phone View PostI think I might be an outlier when it comes to thrift store blankets and towels. I look for the stained and frayed ones. This isn't because I'm going to ask for a discount on 50 cent towels, its because I volunteer for an animal rescue group and we use them for the animals. People who are going to use them for people uses will want the nice ones for their homes, cats and dogs don't care."Bring me knitting!" (The Doctor - not the one you were expecting)
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Quoth EvilEmpryss View PostAs for the food past its expiration: a lot of those dates have very little to do with food safety or freshness.
And thanks for reminding me, I still haven't brought my extra fleece to the animal shelter.Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Quoth KatherineB View PostYou should bring the thrift store a letter from the animal rescue group. They may be willing (or happy) to give you the stained or frayed items they would otherwise have to pay to throw out since it means they will save money and be donating to a good cause themselves.
Just so everyone knows how cheap I am when it comes to charities, in the summer, I buy up every non-tattered thrift store jacket or coat I can get my hands on. They cost maybe a dollar each and often less because they don't want to store them. I bring them home, wash them and toss them into boxes until it starts getting cold. Then I take them to the woman's shelter or to the homeless shelter depending on the sizes.
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Quoth Tama View PostIrv, you'd be surprised what people will eat. Just check out the dumpster diving reddit board.
Our store does, however, donate bakery and bread items to the local food bank on a weekly basis. Not to mention my company has (as of this year) cut ties w/a long standing children's charity we used to raise money for and instead directed their "giving back" focus on feeding the hungry.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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