That makes a scary amount of sense, Theo.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Anne W. - Dec 03, 2011 9:08:31 am PST #9692 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Steph L. - Dec 03, 2011 9:19:45 am PST #9693 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dark Brownies. They're the Dark Elf equivalent of regular helpful Brownies -- they actually bring in the trash from other houses to mess yours up....
I'm convinced -- convinced, I say! -- that people break in to our house during the day (which is not so funny any more, based on my neighborhood's new trend of crime) and cook food and eat it off our dishes and then leave the dirty dishes in our sink. But here's the kicker: the amount of food in our fridge stays the same, so I can only assume the dirty-dish-criminals BRING THEIR OWN FOOD, prepare it in OUR dishes, and eat it from OUR dishes. Otherwise, if they were eating our food, the fridge would empty out. But it doesn't! So CLEARLY they are bringing their own food for the sole purpose of dirtying up all our dishes.
There can be NO OTHER EXPLANATION.
Sick, man. Just sick.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2011 9:20:13 am PST #9694 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've been cleaning. What am I supposed to do with bathing suits that I don't want anymore? Donating them seems kind of icky, but they're still in pretty good condition, so throwing them out seems wasteful.
Pix - Dec 03, 2011 9:21:22 am PST #9695 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Wash them and donate them, Hil.
DavidS - Dec 03, 2011 9:33:16 am PST #9696 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Donated clothes have to be dried cleaned before they're resold anyway.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2011 9:44:41 am PST #9697 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Really? OK. I'll add the bathing suits to my Goodwill pile. (Well, my Goodwill pile is now in the backseat of my car, because I'd meant to actually bring it to Goodwill yesterday, but I forgot. But from today's cleaning, I'm adding a raincoat, two pairs of boots, a sweater, a purse, and now about five bathing suits.)
Typo Boy - Dec 03, 2011 9:44:59 am PST #9698 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
"have to be" or "should be"? Because it would surprise if anything sold at our local Goodwill was cleaned in any way before being sold.
DavidS - Dec 03, 2011 9:49:12 am PST #9699 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"have to be" or "should be"?
In California it's law. I don't know what the law is in other states.
Typo Boy - Dec 03, 2011 9:50:52 am PST #9700 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A good law. I wish every state had it. (Well, I'd accept laundering in in hot water as an alternative.)
Theodosia - Dec 03, 2011 10:06:30 am PST #9701 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've only haunted the Good Will shops in MA and PA, but I've never seen any pair of anything that struck me as dirty.
FWIW, if the clothing donation places get items that aren't usable or too worn, they send it on to cloth recycling and make money on it that way, so you can let them be the judge on stuff you're just not sure about.