Better than winning the lottery for Brighthouse

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Your lucky they could bother to come out. I recently contacted a number of charities offering them my deceased mums belongings and chased them numerous times. Despite what their website state, they couldn't be bothered to arrange an inspection. Just ignored all my calls. In fact, where I live, charities don't give these items away, they will only sell most items and they have to look new. As I didn't know anyone in need, most items went straight to the tip.

 

In fact, one charity that sends clothes to war torn or natural disaster areas, turned their nose up at some unworn clothes still with their label, because they were old fashioned. Seems that just because you have no safe running water and food and live in a cardboard box doesnt mean you shouldn't be stylish.

 

I agree Sillygirl

 

Most of us have fell for the Payday loan run around in our past

 

Once you are in it, then it is very hard to get out of the endless cycle

 

When my MiL died we offered a chaity that recycles furniture her belongings and they rejected most of them, even though they give them away because apparently those people living in poverty in Dorset need a large flat screen telly and not a mere 28" JVC with separate Freeview box. They were also hard pushed to accept an almost new washing machine and bed (had been used with mattress cover so spotless), the former because they would have to offer the recipient a guarantee even though it would be donated to them and the bed because it was used.

When I married some 35 years ago we had a secondhand bed that belonged to my grandparents when they got married and didnt have a telly for 2 years and then a valve driven B&W set.

I do think that sometimes people do look a gift horse in the mouth and make everyone else in the same predicament a laughing stock (story above) and sometimes the rules forced upon well-meaning people and charities are too sureal to be believeable but they, like all sterotypes exist.