cretinbob:
No, Starvation Army wants you to donate cash so they can pocket most of it.

Uh no, that's total bullsh*t.

-1/10

Plant Rights Activist: My dad does this crap. Falling apart furniture, old broken T.V.s and other worthless junk he 'donates' by dropping off at the salvation army. ... I tried explaining to him they're just going to throw it out but he just doesn't seem to understand.

Perhaps he understands but just doesn't care.

K3rmy: The skidmark comes out if you wash it. If not, use it as a rag. (Probably not a dish rag though)

I find it cheaper to donate such items rather than pay extra for the city to take them to the dump. Also, one man's garbage is another's treasure, reuse is better then recycling, yada yada

You might be the biggest douchebag on Fark.

"Well it's worthless for anything but rags, but hey, poor people love shiat-stained rags!"

I wish I had a great big animated .gif award to give you, the master douchebag.

All the "cool anecdotes" about how corrupt these charities are, without a smidge of substantiating evidence. While this is Farkitude at its finest, it's also the most despicable.

For all those whose unsubstantiated slams against charities helping those who are suffering through no fault of their own, have one of these:



/What, you built your house within 15 miles of the Mississippi River -- go fark yourself.

//The same could be said for victims of any natural disaster (e.g. earthquake, fire, volcano, etc) -- so go fark yourselves.

///When these "experts" get shiathammered of course they will just say, "hey, it's all on me."

cyclebiff: Here's a tip: don't support ANY organization who's name is reference to a non-existent sky wizard OR a militant group that probably murders babies in the middle east.

That is all.

Totally agree.

I don't remember where or when, but the SA once sent boxes and boxes of ashtrays to earthquake/flood victims.

I wouldn't give those people the time of day let alone money or goods. I feel the same way about most charities. After seeing financial docs from several different charities and saw how much went to 'administrative expenses', I pretty much ignore them all.

It's ok, I'm sure the streaks in the undies I donated aren't as bad as the ones the people who survived the tornado have.

buzzcut73: I started volunteering at a thrift shop that will remain nameless last week. In three days there, I have come across two penis pumps in boxes of donated goods from estate sales.
WTF is wrong with people?

As a property manager, I have donated many boxes of clothing and household items that are abandoned by vacating tenants. For some reason, most units that have lots of abandoned property also have abandoned dildos. Usually the purple jelly kind. I have been known to throw them into the donation box with the other stuff for no particular reason.

It's all they deserve. If they had been more prepared, they wouldn't have to leech off the rest of us.

Besides, for them, it'll be just like it was before the storms.

ghare: It's all they deserve. If they had been more prepared, they wouldn't have to leech off the rest of us.

Besides, for them, it'll be just like it was before the storms.

Yeah, don't feed the troll...

That said, I went into the Anderson Hills neighborhood near Huntsville, Alabama yesterday. There is no way anyone could have "prepared" for that.

A lot of people use their natural disaster "donations" as a way to get rid of shiat they don't want anymore. I recall the Indonesian tsunami victims received tons of weird, broken, useless crap too. I'm sure they want some stiletto heels over a supply of food and water though....

Attention Whore of Babylon: ghare: It's all they deserve. If they had been more prepared, they wouldn't have to leech off the rest of us.

Besides, for them, it'll be just like it was before the storms.

Yeah, don't feed the troll...

That said, I went into the Anderson Hills neighborhood near Huntsville, Alabama yesterday. There is no way anyone could have "prepared" for that.

That was a sarcasm, not a troll. Not intended to be a factual statement, you know?

ghare: Attention Whore of Babylon: ghare: It's all they deserve. If they had been more prepared, they wouldn't have to leech off the rest of us.

Besides, for them, it'll be just like it was before the storms.

Yeah, don't feed the troll...

That said, I went into the Anderson Hills neighborhood near Huntsville, Alabama yesterday. There is no way anyone could have "prepared" for that.

That was a sarcasm, not a troll. Not intended to be a factual statement, you know?

My apologies. I guess my sarcasm detector was tornado-damaged.

I have a friend who volunteers at Salvation Army. She told me that the regular employees consider "first picking" a perk for sorting through used underbritches. The "good stuff"; unstained furniture, designer clothes, working electronics, etc - are usually in an employee's car within 20 minutes of drop-off. She said only about 25% of merchandise ever hits the floor. Again, this is merely an anecdote from my local SA, so don't get your used panties in a bunch.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: studebaker hoch: Salvation Army and Goodwill accept broken toys and appliances.

They employ mentally disabled workers to bring these toys back to life at their central repair facilities, then distribute the toys to needy kids.

Please donate what you can.

I don't know if this was meant to as a joke or to be serious, but it's farking hilarious. I'm literally laughing out loud.

Actually, for Salvation Army it's substance addicts who do it. SA gives them menial jobs to provide them stability while the indoctrinate them with fringe Christian religious dogma.

Goodwill actually will fix broken things and will put out incomplete items. I'm pretty sure the one around here washes everything, too, before it's tagged and displayed. Around here it's a haven for crafters and the entertainment industry (along with places like Construction Junction). Also, Goodwill takes in old, outdated computer parts and makes boxes that cost less than $100, but can't be upgraded. Perfect if you need a cheap web service gateway, but just save up another $200 and have someone build you something if you want a computer that you can actually use with modern technology. My new one, built in January, can take 8 SATA drives, 16GB of RAM and a 6 core CPU with 2 PCIe video cards, then there's the other card slots and the device connectors. Just don't buy a desktop there. A laptop will cost you about the same as building a new desktop which is still cheaper than the pawn shops and more reliable than craigslist.

themasterdebater: david1963: I'll have to ask around next time I can afford to drink in a bar.

Just wear skintight jeans next time and hang to the left... you won't need to buy any drinks at all.

/The more you know?
//Don't ask...

well that explains that.
/used to wear skintight jeans.
//naturally hangs to the left.

cyclebiff: Here's a tip: don't support ANY organization who's name is reference to a non-existent sky wizard OR a militant group that probably murders babies in the middle east.

That is all.

because massive groups of volunteers not affiliated with religion are just waiting there to help out right?

La Marqueta on Park & 115th (nyc) accepts donations of clothing, linen, etc. in any manner. undesirable fabric can be broken down and made into other things.

some of the washcloths you buy in stores didnt start out as washcloths. they probably were wife beaters at some point....lol

if worse comes to worse the hoarders will buy it.

Plant Rights Activist: My dad does this crap. Falling apart furniture, old broken T.V.s and other worthless junk he 'donates' by dropping off at the salvation army. I was with him one time and they told him to his face they didn't want the stuff he was dropping off but he dropped it in the parking lot and drove off anyway. I tried explaining to him they're just going to throw it out but he just doesn't seem to understand.

when i put my useless junk outside on the curb the puertoricans in my neighborhood come out in swarms. it got so bad that the super had to bag up my son's old broken toy box (full of broken toys) so they would stop sifting thru it. i have no idea why they were so interested when the toy box and everything inside it was broken.

some ppl are hobbyists and like to restore things. some are hoarders. either way there is a demand for useless crap.

we just had a city wide "curbside give away weekend" where you are "allowed" to just leave whatever on your curbside and people will come and pick through it and pick whatever up. Truly.. one mans garbage is another man's treasure. I saw someone picking up a broken chair that only had two legs.

SlothB77: Depends on who used the underwear

hahaha...i see what you did there.

Back when Hurricane Something-or-Other whomped most of southern Florida, my company set up a donation box in the foyer.

I took a look inside once, and saw a brand new pair of roller blades. At first I thought "what dick puts roller skates in a disaster relief box?" And then I got this image of some fat old dude doing his best Dorothy Hammil imitation while dodging palm tree trunks and downed powerlines, going "I'm skaaaaating through the wreckage! Just skaaaaaaaayting through the wreckage..."

Coolest disaster donation evar.