Hello, welcome back.
Shall we talk about how utterly horrific this is?
So I filmed this at one of my local Asda's... between Christmas and New Year, I can't remember the day exactly.
The last couple of days I've seen loads of really similar posts on Facebook, like all over my Facebook, like being shared by all sorts of people.
And reading the comments, it just winds me up so much because people are blaming charity shops.
How is the fact that people are so lazy that they cannot keep things in their car until they know that there's space for it?
Because obviously after Christmas everyone goes mental and they want everything out of the house immediately.
Outside, out of mind, they want it out of the house, they don't care where it goes, they just want it gone.
So you can see that people are fly-tipping, this is fly-tipping, because this isn't stuff that's going to go to charity, it's stuff that's going to go in the bin.
Because you can't trust whether someone has taken a piss on it overnight.
So this isn't being saved, this is literally going in the landfill.
And the conclusion that you can come to is always because charity shops are too expensive.
Are you OK?
I think it winds me up so much as well is because I know that I'm not expensive, because I'm fortunate that I can make my own prices.
I don't have to stick to guidelines of what I'm told, I do whatever I want.
It just makes me so mad and it always... I've said this before and I will say it again.
More often than not it's resellers, they're always the ones that say pile it high, sell it cheap, that's the best way to do it if you know anything about business.
And the only reason they care is because they want it from you cheap so that they can make a profit on it.
Most like normal day-to-day people don't actually think prices in charity shops are that high compared to the cost of clothes in general.
Seeing this, if that doesn't show you that we have a problem then I don't know what will.
And to blame it on charity shops because we all shut for a couple of days or after Christmas or I've been driving around and none of them are taking anything.
Can you see why?
Think of every single clothes bank in your local area looks like that.
So imagine what our shops look like.
This is what we're dealing with every single day.
There's just so much stuff.
I honestly don't think people grasp the volume of stuff that we're dealing with every day.
And then everyone says like, oh, just sell it for a pound.
Every time I sell everything cheap, it's like the most stressful two weeks of my life.
It's impossible to keep on top of.
So yeah, just if you go to a clothes bank and it's full, keep it in your car.
If you take it to a charity shop and they say, I'm really sorry, I don't have any space at the moment.
Keep it in your car or go to the next one or maybe just ring them first.
Don't dump it in places because you're not helping and don't try and convince yourself that you are helping because you're not.
You're not helping charity.
You're not helping the people that these clothes banks are supporting.
You're a fly to pen.
That's all.