Where to donate clothes where they will be worn?

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Anonymous wrote:Women Giving Back is great for children and women's clothing--clients get to go "shopping" themselves. They don't want anything stained or the obvious "will never be worn" becuase it is from 1950 clothes. I believe they also have a Pod to drop off if you aren't there during business hours.

Guess what happens to the clothing they don’t select? Which is fine, but what you’re describing is what Goodwill does too. Clothing in good shape goes to the sales floor, and what doesn’t sell gets baled and shipped abroad, where it gets picked through and some of it is retailed again.

I have volunteered there and we never threw anything out (unless it was damaged in some way). We restocked (from donations) what had been given to clients.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to hijack this thread, but IS there a place you can take ratty clothes? I have a ton of t shirts with small holes, ripped jeans, etc...which I guess I could throw away...but would prefer for them to be recycled somehow?

There’s a website called ForDays that sells some recycled-materials clothing. You can order a bag from them, ship it to them, and they will recycle the fabric. It’s $10, but that pays for the shipping and the bags are fairly big.

So pay for the privilege of shipping some random website a bag of donations? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Move on from these clothes, OP. Once they are out of your hands you have no control over what actually happens to them.

I you really want to prevent your stuff from becoming waste, you have to buy less stuff.

+1000

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Huh? Kids were smaller sizes and now they are bigger sizes. Should I instruct them to stop growing? They needed all the clothes during the time in which they fit.

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Since these are kids clothes, offer on your local Buy nothing Facebook group and they will be snapped up and used.

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Are you really, absolutely sure you want other people to wear your used clothing??

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Anonymous wrote:Wider circle doesn’t take clothes.

Wider Circle takes professional clothing for men and women and children clothes through size 5.