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Boomers spent their lives accumulating stuff. Now their kids are stuck with it.
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Salvation Army and Goodwill don’t refuse things— I’m not sure where you’re getting that. They take their free donations, mark them up so much you could almost buy things mew elsewhere for the same price. They’re not a resale shop like Buffalo Exchange
The trick is to pack up a big box full of stuff and give it to them all at once so they don't have time to look through it and refuse it.
They absolutely will refuse things they know they'll have a hard time selling, and trust me they have unique insight into what people want and don't love the idea of warehousing unsalable merchandise. Many Goodwill location's FAQs acknowledge that they refuse to take certain things. Salvo has a whole page dedicated to why they refuse certain things.
Do they not have drop off bins where you are?
They do! They're where I leave all of my used motor oil, dead batteries, and bedbug-ridden mattresses.
Come on. Just because you can subvert their policies by dropping stuff there indiscriminately doesn't mean you should. Most of them say, right on the bin, that they're for donations of clothing and shoes only.