Clear-out Day 6

I love charity bags. Here in the UK, people drop off plastic pags at your door, with a day marked when they will come back around to collect. The word might be out by now that I’m having a clear-out, AND that I’ve lost quite a bit of weight and am donating old clothes.

The NSPCC (Nat’l Soc for Prevention of Cruelty to Children) just got some Nike Air trainers, pretty purple jumpers (sweaters), some long-sleeved tops and a knitted hat.

In compensation, my LandeEnd order just arrived, with two noew pairs of trousers, 2 tops and a yummy coral jumper.

I forgot to take pictures of all this.

3 thoughts on “Clear-out Day 6”

  1. Oh Debby – I wish you had started this 2 or even 3 months earlier, then we could have held each others’ hands during the whole traumatic process! Not that I have really finished… just kidding myself.

    BTW – I don’t trust charity bags. I insist on driving the stuff to the charity shops. I also have to take specific stuff to specific shops. And gift aid it all!!

  2. If you’re not done with it yet (the clearing out), we could still hold hands.

    RE: charity bags. It’s a funny thing I figured out about myself a few years back. After I make the gift, I’m unattached to what happens to it. Once there was a beggar in a car park, and I gave him my spare cash. My friend was horrified! “Don’t you know he’ll just use it for booze?” That gave me food for thought, and I realised that, for ME, the attachment to it ceased when I gave it away. What they do with the gift is their karma, their choice and consequence. I guess I feel the same way about charity bags. Whoever gets it, may it bring them happiness.

  3. That is true about the attachment once its gone. I just get hung up on maximising the income for the charity. So I don’t give books to xxx charity shop because they sell them at 3 for £1 – I take them to yyy where they sell them for £1.50 each.
    Also I don’t like so called charity bags where the collection company sells the stuff on in bulk and then gives a tiny amount to the charity. Then mostly they don’t collect from our house – so it is usually easier to bin the bag, and take stuff to the shop myself.

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