I was in the local Age Concern shop here in Norwich and I saw a chap in the back room going along a rack with large numbers of assorted items of china, glass,ornaments, etc. and picking out anything which he obvious thought worthless and just chucking them in a bin bag.

I realise that they are limited for display space, but I'm sure that most of the things probably had a use to someone and could possibly be put in a Bargain bin or similar for a few pence each.

It annoys me that when someone gives things out of the goodness of their soul that its just thrown away.

We have plastic bags through our doors every week asking for donations, mainly of clothes, from many well known Charities. I don't know where they think we accumulate all these clothes from! We sometimes get 2 or 3 bags in a week. I feel loathe to put stuff out as unless its pretty good quality stuff its probably just going to be junked if they can't resell it.