Read one of the many flyers we get in our mailslot each day:
Dear householder,
CLOTHING COLLECTION
WE URGENTLY NEED CLOTHING that you and your family may never wear again. Maybe it's no longer your size, out of fashion or style. Also of great help, mobile phones, blankets, sheets, shoes, handbags, curtains, belts, CD, DVD, bath and hand towels, underwear, cosmetics, toiletries, perfumes.
We will recycle your unwanted goods. A chance to empty your wardrobes of unwanted clutter and create space.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNWANTED CLOTHES.
Please put these items into plastic bags, stick this leaflet on the bag and leave visible outside your front door before 8:00am on the day indicated below. Come rain or shine, we will collect between 8am & 8pm.
TUESDAY
S___ Ltd is a collection company who provide people in third world countries with clothes of their families they can afford.
It provides jobs in third world countries, sorting the clothes for distribution.
It provides business for UK export, for transport companies.
It provides employment in the UK factories grading the clothes.
It provides employment for people collecting the bags door to door.
Funny thing is, most of the autumn and winter clothes we brought to the UK was bought in ukay-ukay in the Philippines, so we actually may have brought some of these unwanted clothes back to their homeland!
Just something to think about, when you go on your next ukay-ukay shopping expedition. ;)
1 comment:
What goes around, comes around. =) Like the kindness that you and O have shown during the short time that I've known you. And your kindness comes back to you in various forms, nationalities and locations.
BTW, you cut your hair pala. Your family pic in in True North (Maybe you know already and have a copy).
It's good to have you bloggin again. Hope to read more from you.
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