Charity shops urge public to donate the presents they would rather forget
Useless, unsuitable or insulting? The bad gifts you got for Christmas could be just what someone else is looking forWe’ve all been there. Smiling graciously as we unwrap our Christmas presents to reveal something utterly useless or unsuitable or, indeed, downright insulting. So this month is a good time for a clear-out of unwanted gifts.
“However, this year we received a box of gifts which firstly had us crying with laughter and then, later, made us feel quite insulted as all the items were not only totally random and unsuitable, but also second-hand and ranged from hugely oversized T-shirts to used running shoes and some very questionable night wear, which was also second hand.
“I have a number of elderly relatives and each year, for as long as I can remember, they all send me some sort of toiletry or aftershave set,” said Mr Nolan, who is from the UK and is now living in Dublin. “I also have four sisters and lots of female cousins, who also buy something similar, so, while I am very grateful and delighted with the attention, I just can’t use all the stuff that I get.
“We gladly accept a wide range of unwanted gifts as donations, and these have definitely increased post-Covid as I feel that these days people don’t hang on to presents that they don’t want,” Mark Sweeney of Oxfam Ireland said. Patrycja Pawela, the deputy manager of the Oxfam shop in Ringsend, Dublin, said the shop was “always looking for donations, either unwanted gifts at this time of year or from a wardrobe clear out”.
Donating gifts through a charity shop is a way to pass on useful items to those in greater need, Mr Byrne said. “It’s a great thing for us, and I think it’s good that if someone has something that they’re not going to use, it’s great to give it to someone who might need it,” he said.
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