Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "Fighting Shame: poverty in Leeds depicted by eight everyday objects" video.

@vw2523 When you say a "thriftshop" do you mean a shop that sells new things at severe discounts after buying the stock from discontinued stores or a second hand shop operated by a charityorganisation for purpose of collecting money to some objective? You could probably get the cheapest furniture on places like facebook market or local facebook sites who have a section for such. Of course the standard of item could vary greatly but you could even get things for almost othing when beople bought new furniture and need to get out the previous table, desk or whatever though it could need scratches in the surface to be filled and such. But such are the places I would searchif starting a home today and listening with extended family and friends if they had anything they wanted to be rid of (people often do have that odd chairs chucked into a corner of their garages to be taken away to the recycling that is being postponed forever).
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@Noname-oo9gn You're wrong. It could be very charitable to obtain most £ they could to go to cancer research or some othe charity... It depends on what the purpose of the charity is though. I see a lot of comments, not only on this video, that is somewhat shaming charity shops for becoming "pricey". It suggest to me that people commenting may not be aware of for what objective the charity shop is ran. I may not be for helping poor to obtain cheap furniture but to collect money to overseas starvation victims for some natural disaster, cancer research, animal shelters or whatever. They could loose their favourable tax status if they strayed away from their stated purpose of those who gave furniture to be sold for the benefit of cancer research or rehab after cancertreatment would get to know it was sold on severe discount or given for free to benefits to the poor. Same with people offended that their excess items of home clearance being rejected. The charity shops can neither store not sell all the washed out t-shirts that was sold as new for £2.50 at the H&M and the TopShop christmas sale two years ago, or the discontinued lamps that was put out for £2 at IKEA in january. Unfortunately a lot of people tend to view the charity shops as dumping grounds of dirty, broken things for purpose of saving themselves a few cents of garbage disposal. And it goes as well with people who have donated items thinking they were priced too cheap. These charity shops need to have a rotation of stuff to keep customers coming in, they can't have the same things on the shelves when the weekly visitor comes in.
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