Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Many of the clothing collection schemes are a scam. You'll find your
clothes being sold on in Eastern Europe and the money pocketed by the
organisers with buggerall given to charity.

Yep - the one I had through the door the other day doesn't mention the
word charity or make any reference to needy people at all. It just asks
nicely for your clothes and leaves people to assume.

My old clothes get used for sailing, then general DIY, then
painting/siliconing, then become rags or used for other purposes. I have
an opened up rugby shirt acting as a curtain to catch sparks from my
grinder rather than have them fly into the shelves next to it, and part
of a pair of jeans forming a sort of hood to prevent sunlight shining
into the back of my welding mask and making it hard to see through the
dark glass.

Pete