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Q: Used clothes: Where to donate them ?
Do you have any idea about how and where to donate used clothes in China?. I have a lot of clothes which I can't carry in my suitcase and I am not willing to dump them. I asked my Chinese friends and I got many "I don't know" answers.
I put my new, custom made, too small shirts and shoes from Shanghai Silk Market close to the garbage bin, and somebody pick it up few weeks ago.
I guess, it was the same person, who's collecting empty bottles and cardboard boxes.
I asked my Chinese friends about 'used clothes donation', butt...nobody knows anything about it.
Scandinavian:
yes, I do the same e.g. when we for some reason had too many water kettles, next to the garbage, someone will pick it up and it will be put to use
NiceBrice:
Haha! I do this too. It's nice to cut out the middle man I guess. In the US whenever you donate clothes to a place like Goodwill or St. Vinnies, the clothes cost money to pay the middleman fee that goes to running the store. Here the clothes go directly to the people who need them.
Way to streamline the process China!
In Xian yellow soup kitchen,Xianese.com helps people because he can,top guy
hmmm,,, it's easy in Manila. anything I do not want/need anymore, you just leave it at the corner. it'll be put to use. sometimes bring the extra stuff we acquire and leave it next to those sleeping on the sidewalk. it'll get used.
friend of mine carried a zip-lock baggie,, she kept all left-overs from restaurants and fed the street catz. pretty cool. I did the same,,, just pack left-overs best u can and give it to the street-kids,, their appreciativeness will warm even the coldest heart. funny how a handful of cold rice can mean so much to a person.....
Hi,
I am doing a donation campaign for homeless and orphanages in Vietnam.
If you like to donate you can email me: charitylalaine@yahoo.com
I do about the same as icnif77 and diverdude4. I put unwanted but useful things in a separate, preferably clear bag next to the garbage. Someone will use it. Clothes, the shoes I bought that don't fit (haha), anything.
icnif77:
I didn't buy them. I had my shoes and shirts custom made. 
Now, you can really laugh.
icnif77:
What else I could do with 2 pairs of too small, custom made shoes, and 4 shirts? My resolution after Shanghai incident: "I am buying only 'can't live without' items in China". I purchased new sneakers from UK website recently. Inside sneakers is tag: 'Made in China'. My coworkers suggested taobao, and I 'happily' told them last year's story from Shanghai.
bill8899:
I agree. I think I'll try one more pair of shoes here. If they don't last then I'll only buy at home.
I just gave away a pair of shoes I paid 260 RMB for about a month ago. They are collapsing.
Necessities and cheap guitars, maybe that's the solution.
Old t-shirts have turned into cloths for wiping down surfaces, shoes go into the rubbish and all other clothes are left in a plastic bag by the rubbish dumps. One of the many people who rummage through the rubbish will surely take the bag away and make good use of it.
