To do something naughty in Charity Shops

[Monty27]

When I have donations to small things eg unopened and unwanted makeup items or a wrong size sink plug say, I slip them into the appropriate baskets or boxes in the shop so the volunteers don't have to sort it.

Apply to work there as a volunteer if you want to be useful?

How on earth would that be helpful?

Surely this poster larfing under their bridge.

It's really not helpful. Many (many!) years ago I volunteered in a charity shop sorting stock and was reprimanded for not preparing a few items properly (eg bag with bits still in it, little items on the shelf that were unlabelled). They categorically never came through the sorting room. I can only assume someone had done what you do. Caused a lot of hassle. Please don't.

It's not 'naughty' it's ridiculous - unless you're doing it deliberately to cause trouble

What is your thinking?

About as pointless as this post.

I was going to say this. Or eBay - it's free now for most private sellers/givers.

If you have something niche but far too good to throw away, you can always advertise it for a small price, so as to deter the regular entitled graspers who ask for every single item posted, the car booters and timewasters; then, if a decent, polite human being turns up for it, you can just tell them to take it free of charge.

The people that do that and the ones that dump stuff outside the shops when it can't be used are just as bad as each other along with the people that take the best stuff and sell it for ££ online

Why make it harder for the staff and volunteers 🤷‍♀️

I know this isn't your intention, OP, but this is the exact behaviour that could enable somebody with a grievance or grudge - even a rival charity-shop manager - to get a shop roundly discredited and distrusted, even closed down if serious enough.

Like the people who take a cockroach or rat or whatever into a restaurant and then scream loudly that they just found it on their plate, in the hopes of scoring a free meal and/or compensation.

Whatever was going on in your tiny mind?!!!

Ridiculous thing to do. You're making the charity workers job harder

If I've bought a book from eg Oxfam and it still has the price on after I've finished it, I do sometimes return it to Oxfam but putting it back on the shelf. But random junk without prices on- no that's unhelpful.

He wasn't 'godless', he was the archetypal religious rapist - Roman Catholic, although the particular creed is irrelevant

well if he was Catholic then he’s not the only one.

Please don't do this. My DD volunteers at a charity shop and stuff like this drives them up the wall.
It means regularly someone has to go through stock in the shop to make sure no-one has done something like this (so you're obviously not alone in just dumping your rubbish in the charity shop). It's an extra job for the staff who don't even get paid, so don't get overtime for sorting these things out.

Not helpful. Items can't be checked, priced or counted for stock management. Op could cause the shop real problems!

Imagine waking up and thinking today I shall mess with some charity shop volunteers, make their lives a bit harder. And then start a thread on mumsnet to tell everyone.

just incredibly odd.

Ahh, you were embarrassed, I would have laughed my head off! Pulling out all this tat’ and she’s thinking you’re trying to nick it! lol, sorry I’m not laughing at you’ that’s just a ridiculous situation! lol.

Wow, just came back here, there still crucifying you! People are really so sensitive nowadays! I can’t believe it. So you made a silly mistake you thought you were doing something nice, you didn’t think it through. And look at the reaction! Again just wow!

No crucifying until Easter.

Very good! 🤣

I work in a charity shop and if we find things that we haven’t put out they get taken off the floor as they could have come from anywhere or been tampered with. Sorting new things isn’t a problem , it’s some of the revolting used items that is

My sister in law would always think she was a saint for taking her kids stained/bobbled children’s clothes to the charity shop. She couldn’t understand why I thought it was wrong as she was giving them ‘good quality’ stuff.

I'm now chuckling as I imagine Theresa May discreetly putting little bits and pieces of unused make-up and other junk into charity shops.

or, you could just take them to the counter, and say "can I donate these things?"