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working in a Charity Shop ..

Since january i have been working for two days a week in the back room of a charity shop ..what an eye opener , i can not believe the amount of rubbish we get ..70% rubbish that we have to throw away.its a Dustbin not a charity shop..just working there to get rid of peoples waste..the back room ..
Was the same at the charity shop I used to work at. You wouldn't believe the sort of things people 'donate'.
when i volunteered in a charity shop, we had a room for clothes to be sent as rags, i m quite selective about what i donate as a result.
Original post by lightlyblue
Since january i have been working for two days a week in the back room of a charity shop ..what an eye opener , i can not believe the amount of rubbish we get ..70% rubbish that we have to throw away.its a Dustbin not a charity shop..just working there to get rid of peoples waste..the back room ..


Yes it is sad that some people misuse charity donations and use it as a way to get rid of waste. My colleague at a charity shop I volunteered when I was younger said one bag they received had a dirty nappy in! :eek:
Mine never had that much of a problem with people donating junk as it was solely a bookstore so only accepted books, magazines, CDs, DVDs etc. I can imagine it can get bad at stores selling a larger variety of items. People are just too lazy to take their stuff down to the tip, it's so selfish.
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Original post by lightlyblue
Since january i have been working for two days a week in the back room of a charity shop ..what an eye opener , i can not believe the amount of rubbish we get ..70% rubbish that we have to throw away.its a Dustbin not a charity shop..just working there to get rid of peoples waste..the back room ..

Oh hell yeah. Wait 'til you start getting leftovers from car boot sales. Working in a charity shop is controlled chaos.
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Was the same at the charity shop I used to work at. You wouldn't believe the sort of things people 'donate'.

Yeah it's a nightmare. We had everything from old sex toys to guns to duvets covered in blood and ****.
My ex's mum used to work in a charity shop in a very classy area, and found the opposite. She found lots of designer clothes worth hundreds which the staff were allowed to buy for a few pounds if they wanted, so I did very well out of that - and there were lots of footballers and the like in that area, so I bet I got some famous people's clothes at some point!
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Yeah it's a nightmare. We had everything from old sex toys to guns to duvets covered in blood and ****.


Like in American Psycho? It might have been cranberry juice.
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Like in American Psycho? It might have been cranberry juice.

I've seen enough of both to know the difference.
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I've seen enough of both to know the difference.


Sure you have...

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