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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d donate the clothes to goodwill or take new things to consignment and have an estate sale for the rest. [/quote]

Please do not donate crappy stuff. DH recently dropped off a few bags of clothing that were gently used, washed, folded nicely, and organized to a donation center. He said the woman exclaimed about his thoughtful it was, and expressed her gratitude.

I’ve worked at donation sorting sites, and it is a waste of time to trash books that are falling apart or soap you got from a hotel in 1982. [/quote]

Or stained, damaged clothing and furniture. So many people donate trash, that trash removal is one of every charity's largest costs. [/quote]

There is a lot of confusion about rag recycling and charities.

My town's fabric recycling bins at a big municipal recycling center were from a charity's website that originally said they take any clean fabric items.  But then they changed the newer bins at places outside the center to read something more like resaleable items only.

H&M says they take any clean fabric items for recycling but a journalist found that H&M's collected items were being dumped in trash piles in another country.

I walked into my local Salvation Army and asked 3 staff people if they wanted/would accept imperfect clothes for rag recycling. Things like kids' jeans that had intact knees when purchased, holey when outgrown. 
Or faded and pilled.  I couldn't get a straight answer out of any of them.  They said to donate the stuff and let them figure it out.

Now I just throw all worn fabric items in the trash.[/quote]

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