Charity Shop Smell

737max · 12-10-2017 12:26pm

I know someone working in a charity shop. The clothes are steamed to remove wrinkles, they are not washed.

my3cents · 12-10-2017 12:35pm

737max wrote: »

I know someone working in a charity shop. The clothes are steamed to remove wrinkles, they are not washed.

I know the staff in a whole load of charity shops and very few bother to do anything other than sort the cloths. The rate stuff that comes into one of them leaves them hard pressed to keep up with the sorting.

There is also a massive value in the stuff thats thrown out as its sorted for recycling companies who pay good money for it. Some charity shops make as much and sometimes more from the recyclers as they do from walk in shop sales.

737max · 12-10-2017 12:45pm

When you see storerooms full of donated secondhand clothes you question the whole rag trade and the wastefulness it promotes.

realdanbreen · 12-10-2017 12:55pm

Most of the good donations whether it be clothes, footwear, cosmetics etc never hit the floor of the shop.

enfield · 12-10-2017 1:06pm

This is a type of mold, you will also find this smell on some old army surplus blankets, webbing and uniforms. It will infect other items if stored with them.
The fix is easy, just place items with the smell on a radiator in an unused room. At first the smell will get stronger and in a day or two it will diminish and disappear. If you put it with infected clothing it will get the small again so keep them apart until they have all been 'fixed' on the rad.

5rtytry56 · 12-10-2017 1:23pm

Sure the "Culturally Curious" shoppers can still go in and have a good "sniff around" the auld charity shop when they are finished patronising the finer eloquent stores.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 1:50pm

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Off topic OP. or are you smelly? You don't wash your cloths?

i couldnt say - do you know we all get used to our smell and go noseblind (see advert) - so we dont really know if we smell or not, nor what indeed we smell of.

try asking someone standing next to you next time "how do I smell?" -and see what they say

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Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 1:52pm

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Your clothes are haunted. It's the smell of the paranormal.

nice, just in time for hallow'een ....

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 1:54pm

my3cents wrote: »

...... but would they take them :P

theres still a bit of mileage in them .. well some of them

5rtytry56 · 12-10-2017 1:54pm

I'll try that so Andy next time I'm in a charity shop. Quite a good few here in South Dublin.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 1:56pm

realdanbreen wrote: »

I hate the smell of poor people.

ive smelt a few well orf people before that have smelt very ripe! :eek:

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 1:58pm

my3cents wrote: »

I know the staff in a whole load of charity shops and very few bother to do anything other than sort the cloths. The rate stuff that comes into one of them leaves them hard pressed to keep up with the sorting.

There is also a massive value in the stuff thats thrown out as its sorted for recycling companies who pay good money for it. Some charity shops make as much and sometimes more from the recyclers as they do from walk in shop sales.

Ive known in the past and no doubt it still goes on, charity shop workers getting first pickings of the stuff that comes in, keeping the 'decent' stuff themselves and putting the rest out into the shop

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 2:04pm

enfield wrote: »

This is a type of mold, you will also find this smell on some old army surplus blankets, webbing and uniforms. It will infect other items if stored with them.
The fix is easy, just place items with the smell on a radiator in an unused room. At first the smell will get stronger and in a day or two it will diminish and disappear. If you put it with infected clothing it will get the small again so keep them apart until they have all been 'fixed' on the rad.

good advice 👍

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 2:08pm

737max wrote: »

I know someone working in a charity shop. The clothes are steamed to remove wrinkles, they are not washed.

i suppose thats a good idea really - germs and bacteria are supposed to die at 60' degrees centigrade and above - i bet most dont steam though, most of them just sort through clothes and just put them out.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2017 2:11pm

Local MS charity shop nearby town has some very decent 3 Piece Suits for around only 10euro - absolutely fantastic nick ... why would you be spending hundreds on a suit for that Wedding/funeral/works do ...... er Court Appearance!

freshpopcorn · 13-10-2017 1:31am

To get rid of of a bad smell in a Charity Shop. You employ a man called Wayne to assist you. The first phase of his plan is to get an elderly man to model clothes so he can sell them online to clear out old stock. In phase two he moves the shop to the back room/up stairs and uses the front of the shop to sell cars.
For Wayne to take on a Charity Shop it must have a loading bay at the front.

Andy From Sligo · 13-10-2017 2:30am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

To get rid of of a bad smell in a Charity Shop. You employ a man called Wayne to assist you. The first phase of his plan is to get an elderly man to model clothes so he can sell them online to clear out old stock. In phase two he moves the shop to the back room/up stairs and uses the front of the shop to sell cars.
For Wayne to take on a Charity Shop it must have a loading bay at the front.

Haha , almost sounds like a soap on tv I watch regularly ...

Watchout here comes deegan the local cop ...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-10-2017 8:32am

Death. Someone probably died in what you're buying

cbyrd · 13-10-2017 11:21am

Andy From Sligo wrote:

its a fecker trying to get rid of the smell - even on putting them into washing machine intense on 60 long wash, lovely smelly conditioner - still got smell of charity shop ... what the feck gets rid of it?

White vinegar in with the detergent. About 2 egg cups full. You can use it as conditioner too.

And no, your clothes won't smell like a chippers when they're done ..

Ralf and Florian · 13-10-2017 12:50pm

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Probably lacking heat and could also possibly be the smell of poor people who visit these places

Just kidding

Is this you op?

Ralf and Florian · 13-10-2017 12:54pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

I know a certain 'vintage shop' which is attempting to raise its profile online, you know, one of those outlets that was called a 'second-hand shop' back in the day.

Not cheap, not a charity as such....the back of it where the air doesn't really circulate and where most of the clothes are has an overwhelming bang of old clothes/mould/mildew.

Always run by women in their 20s who try really hard to look like Betty Page and selling ridiculously overpriced stock that they got for nothing.

my3cents · 13-10-2017 12:57pm

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Always run by women in their 20s who try really hard to look like Betty Page and selling ridiculously overpriced stock that they got for nothing.

I'd happily frequent those places just for the Betty Page look a likes but alas I've never seen any of them.

Andy From Sligo · 13-10-2017 6:37pm

cbyrd wrote: »

White vinegar in with the detergent. About 2 egg cups full. You can use it as conditioner too.
And no, your clothes won't smell like a chippers when they're done ..

this always confuses me this white vinegar malarkey - let me get this straight, the white vinegar you normally get is malt vinegar isnt it what you put on your chips (and then stuff would smell like fish and chips) but the white vinegar you are supposed to use for cleaning is distilled white vinegar isnt it? - where do you get hold of distilled vinegar?

Andy From Sligo · 13-10-2017 6:39pm

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Is this you op?

yeah, apart from the silver hair ...

Widdershins · 14-10-2017 9:46am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

this always confuses me this white vinegar malarkey - let me get this straight, the white vinegar you normally get is malt vinegar isnt it what you put on your chips (and then stuff would smell like fish and chips) but the white vinegar you are supposed to use for cleaning is distilled white vinegar isnt it? - where do you get hold of distilled vinegar?

Malt vinegar is the brown vinegar. White vinegar is clear.

my3cents · 14-10-2017 9:49am

Widdershins wrote: »

Malt vinegar is the brown vinegar. White vinegar is clear.

The issue I think is that white vinegar can also be the cheap crap non brewed condiment that they have on the counter in chippers.

Andy From Sligo · 14-10-2017 2:05pm

yes that's what I am thinking of - say the white vinegar I might buy out of Tesco say for example, even though its white vinegar it smells like the brown vinegar you put on your chips .. so If you were going to use that for cleaning/getting rid of odour purposes then that would be no good either. I tried some white vinegar in the dishwasher once because someone recommended it and it stunk of vinegar. So there must be a white vinegar out there that is odourless but where do you get it, that's the thing?

freshpopcorn · 14-10-2017 2:09pm

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

yes that's what I am thinking of - say the white vinegar I might buy out of Tesco say for example, even though its white vinegar it smells like the brown vinegar you put on your chips .. so If you were going to use that for cleaning/getting rid of odour purposes then that would be no good either. I tried some white vinegar in the dishwasher once because someone recommended it and it stunk of vinegar. So there must be a white vinegar out there that is odourless but where do you get it, that's the thing?

I experienced the same with using vinegar for cleaning it's hard enough to get rid of the smell but your only advantage with the washing machine is you can do a very warm wash to kill that can kill the smell!

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