Chaggers....

basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Received 3 charity collection bags through the letterbox today, the 1st one plopped in before 8:30am. Is this some kind of a record ?.......
 
Gadget

Gadget

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I'm pretty sure that when I lived at Peach, I had one through the door around 6am possibly before. I complained to the charity as my gate squeaked. So hearing it squeak at that time of day given the problems I was having, it had me rocketing out of bed to find out what the heck was going on. Finding a charity bag displeased me somewhat.
 
Carole

Carole

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Gadget said:
I'm pretty sure that when I lived at Peach, I had one through the door around 6am possibly before. I complained to the charity as my gate squeaked. So hearing it squeak at that time of day given the problems I was having, it had me rocketing out of bed to find out what the heck was going on. Finding a charity bag displeased me somewhat.
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You could always pop a bit of oil or WD40 on your gate.

Simple job, 30 seconds, no more squeaking.
 
Gadget

Gadget

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Carole said:
You could always pop a bit of oil or WD40 on your gate.

Simple job, 30 seconds, no more squeaking.
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It is no longer my gate. I left it squeaky as I was having an awful lot of problems with anti social behaviour, a fair bit of which is documented around here somewhere. Given the theft and vandalism I wanted to be alerted by anyone coming through my gate.
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
All seem to be championing a good cause, however I am struggling to fill my wheelie bins at the moment let alone donate to some dubious fundraiser......
 
citricsquid

citricsquid

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The bags you receive from "charities" are often a scam. Maybe scam is a bit too strong, but misleading at the very least. A lot of charity bag operations are ran by for profit companies: they collect clothes on behalf of a charity, then they pay the charity a nominal fee per ton of clothes collected, and the clothes are then sent overseas to be sold for profit. Most people, at least in my experience, believe that when you fill a charity bag with clothes that those clothes are then being taken to local (or national) charity shops for resale, which is actually quite uncommon.

I was burned by this misunderstanding a few years ago, I put clothes that could have been sold by a charity shop for hundreds into a variety of charity collection bags, only to discover afterwards that the charity probably received less than £1 from my "donation".
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
citricsquid said:
The bags you receive from "charities" are often a scam. Maybe scam is a bit too strong, but misleading at the very least. A lot of charity bag operations are ran by for profit companies: they collect clothes on behalf of a charity, then they pay the charity a nominal fee per ton of clothes collected, and the clothes are then sent overseas to be sold for profit. Most people, at least in my experience, believe that when you fill a charity bag with clothes that those clothes are then being taken to local (or national) charity shops for resale, which is actually quite uncommon.

I was burned by this misunderstanding a few years ago, I put clothes that could have been sold by a charity shop for hundreds into a variety of charity collection bags, only to discover afterwards that the charity probably received less than £1 from my "donation".
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Also, there are (or used to be) people who would go round ahead of a collection van and snaffle the filled bags....
 
Jonah

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
I've had a 'charity' bag through the door at just after 6am on a Saturday morning. My dogs heard the letterbox and went absolutely ballistic and woke everyone up. None of us were happy that morning.
 
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