Charity bags. Just as we suspiciously expected.

[GROWLER]

http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2011/08/31/households-duped-by-charity-bags/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk-ws-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%7C75964

Bastards!

Been saying it for several years now, but does anyone actually listen to my rants?

Correct. NO!

[Barman]

http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2011/08/31/households-duped-by-charity-bags/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk-ws-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%7C75964

Bastards!

Been saying it for several years now, but does anyone actually listen to my rants?

Correct. NO!

If it has 'charity' in the title you pretty much know it is a scam these days.... 

[bodiam]

http://www.dailyfinance.co.uk/2011/08/31/households-duped-by-charity-bags/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk-ws-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%7C75964

Bastards!

Been saying it for several years now, but does anyone actually listen to my rants?

Correct. NO!

  Did you say something Growler??

[Snoopy]

Of course we listen to you Growler but I suspect many of us already knew this was a scam.
In this household we always use any charity bags that come through the door as dustbin liners. My Scottish neighbour uses his to clear his large garden of dog shite. On average we get one bag every week or so and I have yet to see anyone in the street put a filled one out for collection. Seems like most people share your suspicion of them.

[Darwins Selection]

I have total distrust of all organised charities. They are simply businesses with high staffing costs and overheads and the miniscule amount of cash left over from running the organisations mostly goes to buying arms or feathering the nests of despots.
The few aimed at 'home' charities for heart and cancer research etc, dribble out a few pence in the pound to their causes, while keeping useless meddlers in fancy dinners and OBEs.

Apart from that, they have my total support as an upstanding citizen.

[GROWLER]

Of course we listen to you Growler but I suspect many of us already knew this was a scam. In this household we always use any charity bags that come through the door as dustbin liners. My Scottish neighbour uses his to clear his large garden of dog shite. On average we get one bag every week or so and I have yet to see anyone in the street put a filled one out for collection. Seems like most people share your suspicion of them.

Wasn't actually referring to you (rightly) cynical bunch of miserable goats in 'ere actually.

I have emailed the said article to Mrs Growler in a remote hope that she finally see's the light and error of her misguided generous ways, and STOPS putting half decent stuff out at the roadside.

If these fleecing bastards don't have the stuff for their own financial gain, you can guarantee the bloody pikey Irish/ Poles/ Romanians will, shortly to be up for grabs on the bed of fleas.

This all beggars the question though. WHERE exactly can you take stuff in the knowledge that it'll be used 100% for the purpose of actualy helping someone, as I really wouldn't have any issues with that tbh?

Sadly I / we now live in a society bursting at its rancid seams with complete and utter mis-trust lies, con merchants and cynisism. 

[Nick]

http://fakecharities.org/

[GROWLER]

http://fakecharities.org/

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[Nick]

 

[Snoopy]

To give a serious answer I suggest you call you local council and ask what happens to the stuff put in their "clothing and fabric recycling" bins.
In Denbighshire (don't try using them as they photograph your car reg as you drive into their recycling yards and check that you are actually "local". If you are not they send you a bill!) the council tell us that they have a contract with Flintshire wherein the fabric collected from their bins goes first to Flintshire where it is sorted and thence on to Shropshire where it is "pulped" and the resultant mix is used in paper making, rope making etc. They do this with all paper, cardboard and most fabric apparently.
If your council subscribe to this sort of system it is very unlikely that you will ever see your best suit on the back of some dusky chap in foreign climes featured on the News at Ten .

[bodiam]

My Scottish neighbour uses his to clear his large garden of dog shite.

thats a good idea we should all fill them with dog shite and leave them out front for the Romanians, pikeys etc to collect.