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...charity clothing appeals?
We've been getting up to five plastic bags a week through our door for the last six months or so.
Most of them look like scams as well.
Is it just my area or is it going on everywhere?
No Bucks too, and noticed a definite increase also.
I use the bags as kitchen bin liners.....
here to.
we only give stuff to reg. charitys etc
They're often companies that give (some) money to charity rather than charities - so a bit of a con IMO.
Yep, tons of them here. As per tragically1969 I use them as bin liners.
If I have stuff to give away it goes in the charity clothing bins at recycling or given to the local jumble sale.
Whats the demographic in your street? The grey haired tend to love charity bags (as long as they are legit) to offload their clutter and to clear the cupboards and lofts of the stuff their grown up children have left behind, so if you live amongst and older population the charity baggers are probably finding it pretty fruitful. My folks would probably fill a bag every fortnight, and they are of a generation that bought new homes for young families in the 70's so all the streets around them are full of retired folk with empty nests.
I used to deliver/collect charity bags a long time ago. Our ethos at the time was to try and avoid streets that we'd either collected from recently or who had already got bags from other charities, so having elected what streets to leave bags with I'd have to knock on a few doors to ask what the situation was before I'd distribute them, even then you'd knock every few dozen houses just to check you hadn't inadvertently strayed into someone elses patch. If streets are getting too many bags too often then you get very few back, and the ones you did would have very little of use to the shop in them.
I used to deliver 500 bags in one session, and if I didn't get around 100 well packed bags back (and most of the unopened sacks left out too - binbag fans) then that was considered a pretty poor return,as in loose-my-job poor, either because I'd worked on streets that had already been collected from or chosen streets that would give a poor return. The poor and the old are very generous, the better off don't really give it thought and they're not home to put the bags out.
and they're not home to put the bags out.
don't they just blow away ? My front door gives directly onto the street. I'll try putting one out with a stone on it and see if it gets collected, as I have enough to line my bin until 2011 🙂
Britain's fastest-growing industry...selling bin bags 🙂
I get leaflets through the door with such regularity that the only thing they can be doing with donated clothes is recycling them into leaflets. No bin bags though, except from 'real' looking charities.
They're always different designs and names but the same basic idea, and it's -at least- weekly and often a lot more than that.
Yup, squillions here too.
Whats the demographic in your street?
Working class suburb, families, middle aged and retired people. I'd need to go clothes shopping every day to fill them all though.
I use them to collect other waste plastic for the recycling.
Even if one comes for a charity I would happily give to, I still take my surplus clothes to one of our many local charity shops instead. I don't trust the scam artists not to pick up a bag meant for another charity.