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Just off to our local homeless shelter with a shedload of clothes and some jewellery - not bothering with the charity shops any more - I find them very dismissive - the Huggard Centre in Cardiff are so appreciative

The jewellery they can sort in Christmas presents

Good for you Ann - I have no doubt that your contribution will be very welcome <3

That's lovely ann

just got back - they were serving dinner - looked really good I must say!!! and they were so appreciative

Wotcha Tinkers :-D

Thats so lovely of you Ann :-) <3

Good for you Ann,
we do that quite often,I only thought about mens clothes,until one of the helpers said we take ladies clothes as well.
Well done.
:-D :-D <3

That's very kind of you Ann. have to say once dropped a load of clothes of at save the children shop. I had washed and sorted all the baby clothes into age order and put them into large freezer bags and labelled them. The assistant said"Shouldn't have bothered we will resort it anyway, just leave it over there". No word of thanks at all, hence that was the last time i took anything there. Some charity shops i'm sure let the staff have first pick of what comes in and then put out the rest.

if i had a local shelter for the homeless, i certainly would give direct. At least you know it will be appreciated.

Also some of the prices these shops charge for goods are far too expensive. i once bought a check shirt for my sons school xmas play in woolies for £3.00. The same shirt was on sale in a charity shop for £5.00!!

Hats off to everyone that tries to make a difference. It's good to give.
Florence
In the hebrides :-) <3

when i was coming home from the London meet
earlier this year on the over night bus
with Stray and baby Satan
a homeless person sat next to me
and i must admit he smelt a dam sight better
than the foreign woman who sat there first
he talked about his life story all the way home 6 hours
and i must admit he was a decent person
very interesting life he had had on the street s
he had relationship problems that made him run away 3 years before
but that night he was coming back to Southbank Middlesbrough
for the second time for a visit to his mum

Well where ever you are now Paul I WISH YOU WELL

I bet most of them have an interesting story to tell - all someone's son or daughter

Right Florence I dropped a load of bags off to Marie Curie, gruff lady said put them there, I saw out back man with a van sorting through and taking away.

Carol

Well done Ann, and so more thoughtful of you. <3

Glad carol ,someone else agrees with me. Thats just not right is it?
Florence
in the hebrides :-P

Good for you Ann.

I know every time the homeless are mentioned on GR I harp on and I probably always will :-D

Please don't forget for ladies, men, boys and girls underwear, toiletries including tooth brushes/paste, disinfectants, toilet rolls, kitchen rolls etc some charities even welcome washing powders.

Lesley x

I bagged and sorted lot of my late fathers clothes. I rang the local homeless hostel.
a bin bag full of large mens fleeces/jumpers
2 bin bags full of shirts
8 coats of varying descriptions
Carrier bag of pants and socks which were new, or as new.

They didn't want them - they were not NEW. They didn't like giving the people second hand things apparently.

I rang our Homeless Centre years ago - I had a pile of gents underpants - outgrown and was reluctant to bin them. I rang and asked saying they are in good condition, washed and ironed - not only did the gentleman say yes but asked any chance of ladies underwear - even bras!

Each Christmas they appeal for socks/toiletries for both sexes etc. They also took pillows, duvets and bedlinen, blankets

Any ideas on what to do with most of this?

My OH can fit an absurd amount of "stuff" into a single closet/cupboard.
Once anything goes in, it's unlikely that it will ever be seen again.
We are having a new kitchen fitted at the beginning of the year and need extra storage for about 2 weeks during the refit

Today, my daughter cleared the cupboard out

CONTENTS:
57 jigsaws
54 board games
12 card games
Giant box of Lego
2x ipod docks
CD alarm clock
Full set of Pokemon cards
Build your own Porche set
2 sets of Juggling Balls
3 Viking hats
1 witches hat
1 set fairy wings
A foot Spa
6 holdalls and back packs ( various sizes)
5 Christmas stockings/sacks
3 Quiz Books
Entire box set of Beatrix Potter Books
501 must see world destination book
501 must see UK destinations book
Lanarkshire Coal Mining book
4 IQ test books
A pair of binoculars
5 historical simulation strategy games
Majong set
3 Advent calendars
Canon A1 SLR
2 boxes of VHS tapes
Large tub of colouring pencils
3 blank canvases
A harmonica
3 table top games ( blow football/ ping pong )
various Sudoku puzzles
Rubix Cube
16 lever arch files... and all full of Uni course work... completed 7yrs ago!
Tarot cards
Spare monopoly boards
unopened box of Christmas crackers
Dr Who hologram thing
Box of PS1 games
Boxed doll
large tin of badges
Bag of marbles
My wedding dress in it's original box
A box of Wii games
Bumbag
Large box of subbuteo
1970's Atari type TV games console ( tennis)
Sewing Machine
3 hot water bottles
OU accountancy coursework ( OH current).

Edit:
1 tub of toy soldiers ( plastic)
shoe box containing 2 original Game Boys with assorted games

wow!!! think a children's home would be grateful for a lot of that :-D :-D :-D :-D

well I wrote a letter to our local newspaper - South Wales Echo - suggesting people consider donating clotjhng to the Huggard Centre and am pleased to say it is printed in this evening's edition :-D

glasgowlass Thats a big cupboard!! I dont think I could get that lot in my house ....


Ladies The Salvation Army will take stuff and now "we" recieve anything they cant use to pass on to homeless people or those who really cant afford to buy clothes ...

"we" would rather not say which charity as I,ve had both good and bad feed back about why I do it sorry

Well done, hope that means they get a lot of contributions.