You might not believe what some people try to give to our local Salvation Army. Used, worn out and broken appliances, urine stained and torn mattresses and box springs, broken tables and chairs, worn out and dirty clothing. It gets rejected and people take offense.
You see, there’s a fee when people take this stuff to the dump and they think they can give it to charity, avoid the fee and perhaps take a deduction too, win-win.
Nope, lose-lose.
When I moved to an apartment I stopped giving to charity. I had a big dumpster and threw perfectly good stuff away. My theory was I was taking a job away from the person manufacturing the one that would replace it.
Two other things: First, a lot of items are worthless and hard to get rid of so people try to “donate” them, when their only motivation is to find the cheapest and easiest way to get rid of it. CRT monitors and Tv’s as well as mattresses come to mind. Second, people go for that receipt so they can give away a pile of crap that they could not sell at a garage sale for five bucks (a quarter at a time) and take a $200 deduction.
I’m very cynical about the whole thing, partly because I’ve been guilty myself of the above two items.
Do you still have to pick on Clinton. He’s been out of office for a decade?