Donating clothes

Re: Donating clothes


Most charities don't want to receive clothing donations because they don't have the transportation resources to get them to the people in need. They prefer cash. They often get so much clothing that they end up donating it to local charities.

You may want to consider giving the clothing to groups in your area. For example, when I retired I gave most of my professional clothes to a group providing job interview clothing for women looking for work.

BBB

Hmm, what would the cash go towards?

I remember the people in the effected area specifically asking for warm shoes and medicine, I cant help with medicine.

Well, you can give to a reputable charity that you know will get the food, medicine, shoes, etc. to them.

I agree, when it comes to merchandise, it's usually best to donate it locally. In the US, it's a tax deduction, by the way, dunno if it is in your neck of the woods.

I know a guy who, Im think Im sure in saying that he had family out there and his community has collected money and clothes for it so Im reassured that its gona get into the right hands.

"…have you ever seen anything you donated on somebody on a TV report?"

Yup! Strange you should ask, as I was only thinking about that yesterday. A short while back I decided to get me some new wearing apparel, so I donated the old lot. I then replaced my workin jeans, drinkin jeans, Saturday night jeans, swimmin jeans, church…well, the whole kit and caboodle.

And, do you know what? I am pretty sure I saw somebody on a TV report wearing a pair of those jeans.



BTW. "in my neck of the woods".

Why "neck" is this an example of a fossil word in which an old meaning has been preserved? In the case of ?'neck' the ancestor words in Old Breton (cnoch) and Old High German (hnack) both had a meaning of "hill" or "summit". The origin is older than the US of A.

I've always heard "neck of the woods" meaning a narrow point in the woodland where farms had invaded on either side.

One claimed to live in the woodland rather than the enroaching farms to take advantage of a folksy, unspoiled and irrefutable point of view.