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WIBU to put these clothes in the bin?

34 replies

Fahrenheist · 26/11/2021 15:10

I have a bunch of school uniform clothes that DS has grown out of. They've been washed and put aside. We live some distance from his school. This is due to us being rehoused by the council following eviction. The area we are in isn't in the catchment area for the school. Therefore none of our local charity shops want the clothes. There is a charity shop in a village outside the school that stocks second hand uniform. I contacted them and asked if they could pick it up. They said they couldn't. I can't go there myself as I don't drive. I've since been trying to find general clothing banks but when I've gone to places they were previously they weren't there. I am now sick of the sight of these pissing clothes. We live in a tiny flat and they're taking up space while I try and fail to pass them on. I just want to bin the cunts. AIBU? School are definitely definitely not interested in old uniform, have no 2nd hand sales etc and I'm way too busy and too far away to start that kind of shit up.

I feel sad because uniform is expensive and buying it meant I had to do without all sorts of things. So I would like to pass it on to someone else so they won't have to experience this. But I can't.

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KittenCatcher · 26/11/2021 15:13

Can you advertise them on a local community web site or Facebook, someone might be grateful for them.

PinkWaferBiscuit · 26/11/2021 15:13

I'm amazed the school are not interested to be honest I've never known a school not to have a secondhand shop or appreciate spares.

Does the school have a fb pagepr even a local spotted fb page would work that you could post on saying it's available for free as long as its collected?

MLMshouldbeillegal · 26/11/2021 15:13

Oxfam will take "rags" is unusable clothes for recycling. I'm sure many other big chains will too.

Yabu to bin them.

LizzieSiddal · 26/11/2021 15:15

Yes I was going to say advertise on a FB page or what about phoning the school and asking if you could send the items to them? (If postage isn’t expensive)

Notimeforaname · 26/11/2021 15:15

Do you ever have those charity collections that leave their stickers in as junk mail ? They usually have a date and time for you to leave the bag outside your door/garden with the sticker on.

This is a thing in Ireland.

Usually it's a Chernobyl charity who collects here. It's how I get rid of all my old clothes.

But I'm aware many people dont get them in the door as they have 'no junk mail' signs.

Fahrenheist · 26/11/2021 15:16

I probably could but ime those sites are full of timewasters when I've done this in the past and I've wasted enough time on this already. I'm literally tripping over these clothes and have no space at all. And there is a communal bin across the car park.

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LizzieSiddal · 26/11/2021 15:17

Sorry I missed the bit about the school not being interested.

SnackSizeRaisin · 26/11/2021 15:17

Put them on Facebook marketplace. Or in a clothes bank. Or in a charity door to door collection bag.
But free on FB marketplace shifts pretty fast I find.

LizzieSiddal · 26/11/2021 15:18

Do you know anyone from the old school or area, who would come and collect the clothes and take them to the charity shop for you?

TheViewFromTheCheapSeats · 26/11/2021 15:19

Leave them in the playground on a bag and hope someone finds them in lost property or they get used to clothe a child after an accident…?

SnackSizeRaisin · 26/11/2021 15:19

If you cba then just bin them.
By the time you made this thread you could have listed in FB, then just leave them outside for collection, it takes very little time

KittenCatcher · 26/11/2021 15:19

Would the local charity shop take the basics that dont have a school emblem on them

PinkWaferBiscuit · 26/11/2021 15:20

@Fahrenheist

I probably could but ime those sites are full of timewasters when I've done this in the past and I've wasted enough time on this already. I'm literally tripping over these clothes and have no space at all. And there is a communal bin across the car park.
I find free on fb local page gets things shifted ASAP.

Another idea is does your child have any friends at the old school who have younger siblings who would appreciate the clothes?

ChessieFL · 26/11/2021 15:20

Our council takes clothes as part of the weekly recycling collections, so check if yours does.

TheViewFromTheCheapSeats · 26/11/2021 15:20

Ask on the class WhatsApp etc or in the playground if anyone could drop them off?

Crap solutions I know, but yeah I’d be annoyed too

ChatterMonkey · 26/11/2021 15:21

You seem like you've already decided you want to throw them away, so you could have just done that withlut starting a thread about it...

Or you could find a solution to getting them to the charity shop near the school. How old is ds? Could he be tasked with taking them there after school? Or does he have friends who live closer whos parents could drop them off for you?

Theres plenty of options that you co3hld figure out on your own if you really wanted to donate them. Or you could just throw them away. Either way, posting about it seems pretty pointless.

icedcoffees · 26/11/2021 15:21

Stick them on Facebook marketplace for free. Someone will take them off your hands.

Fahrenheist · 26/11/2021 15:21

If Oxfam came to my flat I would hand the clothes to them. But, they don't.

Pretty sure that most schools in the UK don't have the space to be storing manky old blazers. 🙄 Ours certainly doesn't. And it's two buses away anyway. And I'm working and it shuts at 3.30.

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Beamur · 26/11/2021 15:23

If there's a kerbside recycling collection, put them out there. Don't let it take up your energies. You have tried to pass them on.

Fahrenheist · 26/11/2021 15:24

Yeah there isn't a kerbside collection.

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PinkWaferBiscuit · 26/11/2021 15:24

Pretty sure that most schools in the UK don't have the space to be storing manky old blazers. 🙄 Ours certainly doesn't. And it's two buses away anyway. And I'm working and it shuts at 3.30.

If its a manky old blazer then of course they won't want it, but you're absolutely wrong to think schools don't have spare clothes of course they all do and surely no one believes they actually close at 3.30 either. Hmm

Look if you want to throw them away just do that, you don't need permission. However there's lots of other options to get them out of the house.

KittenCatcher · 26/11/2021 15:26

How much stuff is there, is any of it wearable, our local womens aid and churches are always looking for clothing.

Fahrenheist · 26/11/2021 15:29

Re clothing banks I don't know where they are now. There were a couple within two miles or so but they're not there now. Council website just lists the tip (can't get to as no car) and I've rung to ask but it went to voicemail, I left a message and they've not rung me back.

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LizzieSiddal · 26/11/2021 15:29

How much stuff is there, is any of it wearable, our local womens aid and churches are always looking for clothing.

Good idea.

firstimemamma · 26/11/2021 15:30

My local primark has a clothes recycling facility for old stuff.