To get a bit pissed off with charity collecters

[Notfuckingpastit1]

Not being funny or anything, and I know times are hard! But everytime I go to my local supermarket, there's a different charity collector outside rattling a tin in my direction. Sometimes it feels like I should factor in my donation into my weekly shopping budget. Don't get me wrong I do donate to some, but it's getting ridiculous.

They're not supposed to rattle their tins.

I don't mind them at all actually but I hate the fake smiley bouncy fuckers who accost you in the town center...trying to get you to sign up with a direct debit

YANBU - but one day we may rely on those charities to help us out in our time of need.

I get mostly peed off when they knock on my door after 5pm and feign 'can I talk to your mother please?' shit.

I don't mind in public places, but ringing my door during bedtime, tea time hours is dreadfully annoying.

YABU. They are not supposed to rattle and if they do rattle or pressure you in any way, but if they do you should contact the charity and let them know. Just standing there with a tin is much better than coldcalling or chugging in the street, those things are worthy of complaint. But I think YABU because charities have to make money somehow. So many charities are doing things that the government should do, they need money to be able to make a difference. Give to the charities you think are worthwhile, and walk past the ones you don't. They won't mind, they are used to it.

I think YABU - I always put something in them even if it's a couple of pennies, and I always give the SK's a couple of coins to do the same as i think it is important they realise how lucky they are. I totally respect anyone who gives up their own free time for no return just to help, I am too selfish busy to find the time so I have huge respect for people that do, and I've yet to see anyone being rude about standing outside with a collection tin in their hand, they are always smiling and friendly ime.

Door knocking is a totally different kettle of fish though, that is intrusive and I don't like it.

its when they knock your door and then stick their foot in it to stop you trying to close it.

Yes this happened to me. Probably has happened to a few others on here too, some of them are right cocky bastards.

I don't mind them if they aren't being intrusive/rude. I've done it myself (collection box) and I know it's quite an effort.

YANBU, but at least with the tin shakers you can put in some change if you want to /can afford it and be done with it. Unfortunately chuggers seem to be the latest UK import into Australia. Most of the charity collectors here are backpackers who couldn't give a monkeys about what charity they are collecting for, they're just trying to earn their beer money for the night which makes them very motivated to be really persistent and annoying.

What I do object to is the non-charity/bogus charity requests for donations of old clothes etc - I get about one bag a month of those sadly. Have just reported one to local council licensing as I doubt they have been granted a licence to collect goods door-to-door.

Please read any such bags carefully. If they aren't a checkable, UK registered charity, don't bother. Much better to drop your old stuff off at any charity shop anyway.

I know what you mean about charity bags. I get about three a week pushed through the door. I check them out and use the bogus ones to line my kitchen bin.

I love the ones that knock on the front door :o they always ask me if my mums in, to which my reply is "I have absolutely no idea. Would you like me to ring her for you?"

I'm only 20 and look like I should still be living at home :o

Don't mind the collection box in the least. My mum used to work in the League of Hospital Friends shop, but had to go and stand in a supermarket armed with a tin and stickers every now and then. She absolutely hated it! I would, too.

There's no pressure on you to contribute. I ignore them if it's a charity I don't particularly sympathize with, but am glad to have the opportunity to give some loose change sometimes - for a start it makes me feel good at very little cost. But for those on a very tight budget charity is a luxury they can't afford.

Chuggers are a different matter altogether. You regularly have to run the gamut of several going down our little High Street, and they tend to be quite aggressive - I've even known them to be rude. Ours is a poor Northern town with very high unemployment, so I can't see it being a fertile hunting ground, either. People might be able to spare 50p for a good cause occasionally but not commit themselves to at least ten quid every month.

Some weird lady just knocked on my door really loudly and said 'we're collecting recycling, do you have anything like a microwave or TV to get rid of?' I may have been a bit snotty as I was trying to get DS to go down for a nap. I feel like I should have asked who she was collecting it for though, she didn't offer that information. Very odd.

Ha ha! Think I might try that!

You can just walk past them you know

On the subject of charity bags, what really pisses me off is when you go to the effort of sorting through stuff and putting it out on the day they say they will collect it and they don't bother. This has happened three times now with the same charity so I won't bother with them again.

Were they travellers easily? We have lots of travellers in our town always scrap collecting. Their vans even have stickers on saying "Scrap Metal Recycling Tel 07blah blah blah"

They stole a load of stuff out of my grandmas garden last week and tried to break into her garden in the middle of the night to steal 2 cast iron benches.

I was about to post this very same title, but because at 8:30pm yesterday one nearly broke our door down hammering on it. Had just got our son off to sleep after our usual hour long bedtime fight and that prick appesred trying to get us to donate.

Fair enough during the day but at night, in a quet area in a quiet village, with lots of families and elderly residing i think it's a bit off really. Poor girl across the road was on her own with her kids too! I'm considering sending a friendly request to the guys boss telling him to wake up and realise it's really very inconvenient at that time of night!

YANBU I am counting the pennies at the mo and I popped into our local shopping center to get my shopping. Had to negotiate myself around the RSPCA, Dogs Trust, hand car washers, sky tv sellers, solar panel salesman, a photography company and the air ambulance. I know they aren't all charities but its just the combination of how many people asking me for money whilst I walked from my car to the supermarket really did annoy me, especially as I really don't have any spare cash at all this month.

OH AND when I came out of the supermarket someone had stuck a leaflet on the back windscreen of my car and it tore when I tried to take it off and has left half the leaflet and a load of glue over the back windscreen of my car

I don't people with tins - at least what they're collecting goes direct to the charity - unlike the donations obtained from chuggers and anything you put in charity bags.

Yabu

They're standing there holding a tin, you can approach them if you wish, or walk on past.

At least they're not being paid to bang on your door on your door, or jump up and down in front of you in the middle of the street.

Doormat, that is the kind of sign you need

I asked the last one who came and he said they're told not to knock at doors with a sign that specifically refers to charities, or NO cold callers. We have the usual police one up that states that we do not buy and sell at the door, they're allowed to knock for those.

goolash do you think i should go on the apprentice with my idea

If you fill a charity bag and use gift-aid then you get a letter from the charity telling how much money they have raised from the sale of your donations.
Of course that only works if its a genuine charity as opposed to a textile collector!!