to be hacked off with not one, not two, but three ...

[EcoLady]

... charity collection bags through my door today, plus one yesterday?!

Can't they establish some sort of local licencing process to get permission and spread them out more evenly?

We have had 2 this week. They go in the bin as we give any stuff we don't want to school.

I got two this week, thank goodness, I love getitng them as it saves me a trip to the charity shop and it's even more appreciated this week as I just sorted out all my clothes and have piles of stuff waiting for chairty shops.

SO yeah, YABU.

If you don't want to fill them,just leave them outside your door on the collection day.

I'm always really grateful for them - as OMDB says it saves a trip to the shop. But yes, three in a day does seem excessive.

We use them for bin liners

We get the bags but nobody ever comes to collect!

YANBU we get loads here too and nobody ever collects the bags whether full or empty so people have given up leaving them out. We also get quite a few scam ones which are not from charities but make out that they are.

Where I work in a charity shop, we got 3 or 4 bags of donations on one day last week in other charities bags which I guessed must have been uncollected!

i use them as bin liners - 9 times out of 10 they never get collected anyway and i think a lot of them are cons - not really charity just rag merchants who donate a tiny percentage to the charity - i worked 12 years in a charity shop and was told to always be wary of those that ask for only clothing, linen, shoes etc as these can be sold on for recycling - the genuine ones ask for bric a brac, toys, etc

What is bric a brac?

Yup, and if you have a neighbour like mine, she will nick all the bags which have been put out, before the collectors get there, and arrange a yard sale in summer, proudly displaying all the neighbour hood clothes, and laughing all the way to the liquor-store bank

Assorted Crap!

Bric-a-brac shite you want rid of things eg ornamemts you think other people might like