Page 1 of What`s with all these charity collection bags?

Now, I consider myself a charitable sort of person: donating a few quid per month to my chosen charities, dropping the odd bag load off at the local Cancer Hospice, and filling a door step collection bag or two now and then, but how much bric a brac do these charity orginisations think we have?
Yesterday, I counted 42 unused door step collection bags in a box we keep for plastic bags, of which, 6 of them were received in the last fortnight.

At least I`ll never want for a bin liner...



Live a life you love, use a god you trust, and don`t take it all too seriously

I don`t use them as bin liners for fear of causing confusion on bin day (we don`t have wheelie bins here yet)

So I just chuck them back onto the doorstep, to accumulate with the red rubber bands dropped by the postmen...then once in a while I pick them all up and start afresh. :¦

They`re hardly ever *charity* collection bags. Usually they *say* it`s for charity, but if you read the leaflet they are registered companies not charities, and they actually sell the clothing and claim to donate "a percentage" to charity.


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I don`t use them as bin liners for fear of causing confusion on bin day (we don`t have wheelie bins here yet)

So between your kitchen and bin day, where do the full bags go? Do you actually have to leave bags at the kerbside? What about cats and foxes? Or do you have the old-style bins still?



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Our bags go outside, yes, but they don`t contain anything of interest to foxes or cats, except when we have a roast chicken and there`s a carcass. We compost all our left over food, or give it to the chickens, and we take all our paper, tins and bottles to the local recycling bank. So all that`s in our bags is packaging - plastic and cardboard!

I got a bag from help the aged but my gran wouldnt get in it ;)

Dvdreviewers resident t1t

See, that`s why I love it here. :D

Blimey how did you get out of the bag gran !!!! ;)

Dvdreviewers resident t1t

They made good `sledges` last week :D

Juls

dont get them here... tried to give a charity shop over 1000 vhs videos today, they said didnt want them! Looks like another hole in the ground will get filled tomorrow!



`i am going to live forever or die trying`

marksparks999
Try feecycle, somebody may take it off you.

This item was edited on Friday, 15th January 2010, 20:14