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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what's frustrating, when your donations are considered not good enough. Since when are old clothes and sweaters not considered good enough. Does everything donated have to be brand new?[/quote]

ITA. My kids wear their older siblings' hand me downs, so if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for you.
Beggars can't be choosers.[/quote]

Beggars?????

Beggars wear newspaper to keep moist away from their skin so they won't freeze.

We're talking about the mom whose husband left and she needs to find a job and has no clothes to wear for an interview. Have you ever had to explain to HR why you're wearing athletic shoes to an interview? It's HUMILIATION![/quote]

My wife tried to donate some older work clothes that were too big for her that she wore many years a go. It was rejected because it appeared to be out of style.

No in america, beggars have cell phones. The other day I even saw a homeless guy watching netflix on a laptop (he was homeless not part of occupy wall street, I have seen him a few month prior).

. The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau:
 •80 percent of poor households have air conditioning
 •Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks
 •Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television
 •Two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR
 •Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers
 •More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation
 •43 percent have Internet access
 •One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD television
 •One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo

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I think you're confusing "poor" and "homeless" with "beggars".

Sometimes those who are begging are legitimately homeless or poor. And sometimes they are not.

And how dare someone who is low income own a car or things to entertain themselves with. What exactly are you expecting? [/quote]

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