Do you trust charity collection bags

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I really don't trust those charity bags that get posted through doors. I love supporting charities especially ones I truly believe in. However, I'd much rather drive or walk to my local block of charity shops to donate items including my children's clothes, toys, my old clothes and brick a Brac and I do donate these items every 3/4 months but I don't feel comfortable with leaving a bag filled with clothes and books ect for a 'charity collector' to collect them from my door as I can't guarantee all my items I've donated will be going to the charity shop to raise funds.

What do you lot think about these charity collection bags??

I love them - good stuff i bring to the charity shop myself, everything i'm not shre about goes in these bags. win-win (charityshop people only get really nice stuff, but playwear clothes etc gets collected from my doorstep). wouldn't put nice stuff in there though!

No-one ever collects them, but within a day or two locals rummage through them and take stuff, while the rest makes a mess.

I use the bags to put stuff in and then cart it all up to a charity shop.

I trust them to be suitable for picking up cat poo in the garden. Anything worth giving to a charity gets given to one of the excellent shops in our town.

I never trust these bags and donate straight to shop, The bags are handy for rubbish though!

I never use them either. Always take unwanted stuff straight to our chosen charity shops.

I remember a woman telling me on the school playground once that she had put a bag of clothes out and it had been taken before the van had actually been around to collect. A few days later she had seen one of the more interesting school mum's wearing an outfit that had been in the bag put out for collection!