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To: RitaOK

Goodwill and other organizations get paid per pound for used clothes. This gets sold over seas. It ends up there. Much of it gets used and bought but alot is trash being sent.


1,486 posted on 05/23/2023 2:30:40 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: CJ Wolf
Yes a lot of donated clothes get sent overseas.

We call these places ukay ukay...usually small merchants with outdoor kiosks who sell it to working class folk.

A used t shirt is 25 to 50 pesos or 50cents to a dollar. A good collared sports shirt might be 2 to 10 dollars.

A poor quality Chinese tee shirt is 5 to ten dollars. A good quality spots shirt at the mall is 30 dollars.

Now you are a farmer making 7 dollars a day. Which do you buy?

1,531 posted on 05/23/2023 5:43:16 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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