Charity shops full!

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Tried three different local charity shops today and none of them are accepting donations as they have too much stuff. I wouldn't care if I was donating rubbish, but it is all good quality stuff. Clearly everyone else had their clear outs earlier than me...

A lot of people use charity as a dumping ground especially at certain times of year. We've had a stripper pole, dirty knickers, bits of glass,nails ,used lube ,mankinis ,even dildos. Or huge bags with some nice toys at the top and the rest filled literally with rubbish ..broken crayons,bits of paper,beads, random stuff from the bottom of a cardboard. Dirty,mouldy,musty clothes or smelling of piss..the outrage because we wouldn't wash them!!The sad thing is we just didn't know, it could've been three bags of awesome stuff straight on the shelves or complete rubbish with a few things to put out. But those bags add up in a small space and they can be a hazard,too close to a radiator, bags tumbling down, people tripping over them, simple human nature trying to rush to go through stuff and ignoring safety precautions and ending up with cuts etc.

Your stuff might be the next best thing since sliced bread. That's great!! But if there isn't room there simply isn't.

We have a few local ones, one prices low and turns over stock so fast. Kids books are 4 for 99p and the shelf changes over near daily. The other I go on fortnightly and find myself looking at the same stuff and thinking if it was cheaper I might buy it, but not outlay what they want for it

I knew charity shops got some shit, but at 90% of it being shit

Agree with Rebel that a v v high percentage of donations are shit so it makes me sad that people with good donations are being turned away because we simply don’t have the room
It would be quite a regular occurrence to get a bag of used pants (not envy)

When I have worked in a charity shop in the past, twice a year after the big gluts in donations, they would do something like a £1 per bag sale. That would clear the shop floor so that the pile of donations in the stockroom could go out. There's no point having a shop floor full of years-old garments that are priced too high because of a brand name, and having to turn away donations. How does that earn the charity any money?

a few years ago i was deputy manageress for a big charity chain we were told what prices to put on goods regardless of the fact they were basing it on london prices and we were a small market town.
now i run my own shop for a small local charity and im left to do what i wish more or less. i refuse to put silly prices most kids stuff is 50p ladies jumpers max £3 dresses max £5 for instance and to reach top price they have to be really top brand names most time stuff is £2 or under plus i have a £1 rail so if things have been in shop more than 4 wks they go on there. i would never turn away items but we do get some awful condition things in bags that turn my stomach but i smile and say thank you because one day they might have something wonderful in their bag that could bring in a lot of money pigs might fly ha ha

My local charity shops have been turning stuff away since October or maybe earlier... August? Clothes are ok coz I can put them in huge fund-raising bins, but other stuff is tricky to know what to do with it, if I can't sell it.

Did this come up on anyone's social media feed today? Dismaying.

I wish that they would put a seasonal sign up stating what they need, e.g. 'children's toys, children's clothes needed', rather than refusing a whole bag. But I understand that it is a question of time management and the volunteers might have other more pressing priorities. Also free parking outside for 30mins if they are on a road, so that unloading is easier.