Old woollen jumper - put out for the birds this winter? Or bin?

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I'm about to discard a navy blue woollen pullover from M&S. They tend to go under the arms, with holes and so on.
But would garden birds like robins and goldfinches find it any use? I don't suppose they build nests at this time of year but might they do something with it if I left it out for them to peck at?
And if so, is that how I'd go about it - leave it out like carrion or hanging corpses on pikes in Tudor London for the birds to peck at (I've been reading Robert Harris' bestseller Age of Oblivion, I think it's rubbed off on me...)

Bin. They get their feet tangled in the fibres.

Clothing bank - it can get recycled into something else.

I would darn the holes and wear it at home

Recycle.

Chuck it in the compost heap, I do that with anything cotton or wool.

I would also darn it, and that would become my gardening jumper! I wonder if you can compost them, when they really go - they probably have acrylic thread so maybe not?

@byvirtue I’ve a couple of cotton towels here that are beyond use, they’ve been floor towels for ages. I keep meaning to cut them up to put on the compost pile . Thanks for the reminder.

My sister would unravel it and re-knit it. But never got the hang of knitting.

wear it, compost it or wrap it round pots in the greenhouse to insulate, or cut it up and mulch the surfaces of pots with it.

You could also put it at the base of new pots to save compost.

Make mittens.
Or a tank top.
Or a muffler.

Reuse is best if possible.

Might find a use for it as bedding at an animal sanctuary or dog pound. They can definitely use old towels and blankets.

Or cut it up and use it as mulch or to line a hanging basket.

I keep a bag labelled RAGS for stuff like this and send it to charity shop when full - the bag currently has a holed sheet (M&S percale, nice quality but so thin!) and some holey socks in.
They get turned into dusters or something eventually I think.
(Actual wool does seem as if it should be reused though - I don’t know if there’s any attempt to sort the rag bags. I’m a 1950s child, my mother never threw anything away and I can’t shake that off 🤣)

I second all these suggestions.

If you’re composting it (rather than burying at the base of a runner bean trench or putting it under a bush you’re planting) you can easily remove any non-composted bits when you come to use the compost.

No need to cut them up, just lay them flat on top and continue adding stuff.

Many thanks for all these suggestion!