Recommend a charity shop

Crapaud

After a conversation about Monty Python at the weekend, I went to watch my copy of The Life of Brian on video cassette (remember them), only to discover that my video player's given up the ghost. I've no intention of buying another one just to play a couple of dozen tapes, so was going to just throw them out. Then I thought that they might be useful for a charity, but would they take media for an outdated technology?

I've also got some vinyl records and cassette tapes - I threw the turntable out ages ago.

So, can anyone recommend a charity that would benefit from my outmoded junk?

SpinningJenny

They certainly will! You can still buy machines that are dual VHS/DVD players, so that you can reciord your VHS onto DVD and I know this, because we have one of those very machines!).

Charity shops will take most things, as long as they still work and are in decent nick. When we moved house last year, we took it as an opportunity to have a good clear out and manged to 'charitise' a load of old stuff!

And as for vinyl - it's definitely making a comeback, so it ain't so obsolete as you think...

I can't recommend a specific charity shop (the one that took the most from us was a local charity, not in Glasgow!), but if you google, I'm sure you will find ones suitable. Or you can just pop them down to your nearest. They do really sell anything that still works (electrical items sometimes a bit more difficult though!).

Good luck...

Crapaud

SpinningJenny wrote:

... Charity shops will take most things, as long as they still work and are in decent nick. When we moved house last year, we took it as an opportunity to have a good clear out and manged to 'charitise' a load of old stuff! ...

I'm sure that I saw / heard on the news recently that they can get inundated with junk, that they just throw out anyway, but don't let on so as not to put folk off of donating. I'm concerned that I donate stuff that isn't suitable.

SpinningJenny wrote:

...but if you google, I'm sure you will find ones suitable.

Strange... google's usually my first port of call for something like this and I didn't think of it. Cheers SJ.

After a quick search, I think the British Heart Foundation's going to be the recipient. I'll give them a call tomorrow just to make sure that they can use my guff.

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Looking through the videos, I found a double box set of the 2002 Tour de France (4 and counting). If anybody wants it, for a small donation (that I'll pass on to whichever charity I give my stuff to), let me know via PM or e-mail.

eyes like marbles

there are a few shops on victoria rd that will take all sorts of stuff, theres a book/vinyl specific oxfam there. byres rd used to have a place that took larger bits of furniture, up near where alpine used to be.

Anonymous

44 B********* Drive, Holmes Chapel.

Crapaud

NapoleonD wrote:

44 B********* Drive, Holmes Chapel.

Enigmatic post is too enigmatic!

SpinningJenny

Crapaud wrote:

I'm sure that I saw / heard on the news recently that they can get inundated with junk, that they just throw out anyway, but don't let on so as not to put folk off of donating. I'm concerned that I donate stuff that isn't suitable.

I think they're getting better at saying 'no' now. I know for a few things (can you believe we had 3 old PCs and related items to dispose of?!) that they will be very specific about what they will/won't take. In the end for the stuff the charities wouldn't take, we had to find a firm that would recycle things - you know, take things apart, dispose (responsibly) of the bits they really couldn't use and then reuse the things they could. It was a real eye-opener and has really made us think about how much stuff we really need!***

BTW, British Heart Foundation is very good - I'd forgotten they were one of the recipients of some of our things!

Oh and, if you have a mind, local old people's homes quite like books, records and things like that - they took an old TV of ours! And also local charities that help people set up home like unwanted furniture.

It's all coming back to me know. Organising donations was almost as hard work as selling our house!


***Apart from bike stuff, natch.

snakehips

I read an article recently that said charity shops are not getting enough stuff these days because people are not moving , therefore not clearing out their unwanted posessions. It also said that the numbers of 'buyers' had not fallen , that vinyl was very popular , and was the reason that many potential purchasers went in the shops in the first place.

I recently slipped this garment in
with a bag full of other items ......... Woollie

SpinningJenny

Reckon you might have a point there, snakehips! The only reason we had such a clear out was because we were moving, I have to say. These days, we hoard less because of the monumental task the clear out became!

SpinningJenny

Blimey - thought that link to the jumper was part of your signature (which you don't have).

That's a stunner - very 1980s!

jairaj

I used to live in Southampton while studying at the university there, and there was an Oxfam shop that specialised in selling only Music and books including mostly old vinyls. Maybe you have a similar Oxfam near you?

SpinningJenny

That's a good point! Amnesty have a book/music store in Brighton... not that is anywhere near you, but maybe they have a similar one local to you?

Crapaud

snakehips wrote:

......... Woollie

You are Gyles Brandreth ...



...and ICMFP.
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There doesn't appear to be an Amnesty shop anywhere in Scotland. :? Nice thought though. I've been a member, on and off, for years.

No books are being thrown out! You'd have to prise my book collection out of my cold dead hands first.