Clothing Collection Stickers

tbh

has anyone else noticed the rise in the amount of stickers coming in the door asking for clothes? You are supposed to fill a black bag with unwanted clothes, and leave it outside the door with the sticker on it. I remember a few years ago, you used to get one every six or seven months or so, and they were mostly from charities, but now its like two or three a week, and not from charities anymore, although its a charity-like spiel. Something about "making them available to needy people" and they list their "company number" in the same way the charities list their charity numbers. I've no particular problem with any of that, I was just wondering if anyone knew who was behind it. Are there loads of GAA jerseys in the streets of Bucharest??

Is this happening everywhere?

Endurance Man

tbh wrote:

has anyone else noticed the rise in the amount of stickers coming in the door asking for clothes? You are supposed to fill a black bag with unwanted clothes, and leave it outside the door with the sticker on it. I remember a few years ago, you used to get one every six or seven months or so, and they were mostly from charities, but now its like two or three a week, and not from charities anymore, although its a charity-like spiel. Something about "making them available to needy people" and they list their "company number" in the same way the charities list their charity numbers. I've no particular problem with any of that, I was just wondering if anyone knew who was behind it. Are there loads of GAA jerseys in the streets of Bucharest??

Is this happening everywhere?

Ye, we get them about 2-3 times a week, my mom never has to buy rubish bags .

giggles

Got 2 stickers though the door today and neither had bags with them.

Pity really, cause we've run out :rolleyes:

tbh

I've two stickers for collection tomorrow. I think I'll just leave out a bag with no sticker and let them fight it out!

gonker

Thats weird I was just thinking that today as 2 dropped through my letter box.:D But I always feel guilty about using the bags as rubbish bags (until I run out of course)

Aporia

their everywhere jesus there's more bags than stuff to put in them :rolleyes:

monkeyfudge

No one ends up wearing the clothes. They're all sent up north somewhere and pulped for cash.

Aporia

the clothes and stuff were going to be thrown away in the first place.
just as long as the crappy stuff leaves my house i'm happy.

liamo

I heard that a lot of these are bogus and that these clothes end up on second-hand market stalls making money for the people who collect the clothes.

My own experience is that the organisations who are now leaving these bags don't collect the empty bags that you leave out (even though they ask you to leave them out if unused). They have also, on more than one occasion, failed to take away the bag(s) of clothes that we've left out.

So now I dump their bags the moment they come in the door and any clothes go direct to a charity shop.

AnTaoiseach

I get cards in my door twice or three times a weekm with no bags, saying "We collect, all kinds of everything"
I think its the tinkers leaving them. Its the same things, asking to leave out a bag of old clothes etc. saying they're being given to unmarried mothers.....

tabatha

i also get one every morning. i am so sick of them! i also heard that there are bogus collecters who dont work for charities at all collecting cloths.

The OP

The f*ckers just throw them into my garden, so out of spite they get nothing now. I get 2 or 3 per week, and I have to pick them up all the time from a bush or the side of the driveway, all wet and muddy - pr*cks.

If I have stuff to give now, I'll shove it in the big yellow recycle containers beside the botte banks, while I'm doing my bottles.

Oral Slang

I only leave them out if they have a registered charity no.

Any of the rest seem to be bogus & as others have said are usually travellers collecting them. They then root through the bags, pick out anything they like & through the rest away in a nearby laneway or the side of the road!