The City of Pleasant Hill (and probably most every city in America) is asking people to stop leaving their unwanted items in front of the closed thrift stores around town.
It’s great that you want to “spring clean,” but don’t make a mess for someone else in the process.
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People never fail to disappoint
Why would anybody think a Thrift Shop is an essential business that will be open? Grrrr. Who has to pay to pick that stuff up and throw it out?
In today’s society, many people don’t think of anything outside their personal world.
I use to work next door to the St Vincents in Oakland and every Monday there was huge pile that sometimes made it’s way into the street. 30 years and nothing has changed.
Once the police have the authority or make the effort to fine people this will
stop real quick !!
People have been dumping stuff there before the virus forced the store to close.
So… If people dump it there, they don’t want it…. If the stores don’t want it…
Does that mean it is free for the taking if one were to see something of interest?????
I would guess, that in a case like this, the rule of Finders Keepers applies. It would be a shame for perfectly good stuff to go to waste. However, I wouldn’t touch anything without gloves on, and things should be disinfected.
I would think so, the people that left it there don’t want it, the store has not claimed it, seems to me no owns it. It would probably had been better if they people who wanted to get rid of these items, had just put in their driveway or sidewalk with a “Free” sign on it. Since the store is not open the persons that donated it won’t get a receipt that is needed for tax deduction.
MONSTERS !
Free stuff!!
This happens at Goodwill and the Salvation Army thrift shop in Pleasant Hill all the time (Right next to each other) . I have gotten many free things sitting out on the curb at night including art and small furniture. I feel like I’m stealing but at the same time they were dumped there without the authorization of the business. Sadly I have also done the opposite and put things there overnight that I wanted to donate
I could really care less. The Pleasant Hill thrift stores don’t take most of donations (that are good condition and usable) and won’t let you trash it there, so the people who are turned away go around to homes and businesses in the area and dump their items in yards and trash areas. They’ve been nothing but a scourge the entire time they’ve been here.
your post sounds like you feel they are obligated to take donations. They know what is worth taking, what they have room for, and what sells. People then dumping it elsewhere is not their fault or problem.
@s if I come with a bag of perfectly good clothes and barely-used house hold items that they glance at and say they won’t take (which they’ve done) I hardly think they know much of anything.
if you say so
This is seriously dumb. I am ashamed of these people.
Looking at that picture I can imagine Fred Sanford coming out that door.
Sad to say but throughout California and the nation looks like the regular homeless encampment that the homeless are continued to be allowed to break the law without any penalties to ensue.
Is this how a lot of baby strollers wind up in urban campers’ possession??…….
Hopefully people can snag some free stuff and that it doesn’t become a vandalized dump heap. Human nature, go figure. It’s not right for people to dump it, KNOWING the stores are closed. That’s just lame. We are very much an “out of sight, out of mind” type of society. One sign that irritates me no matter how many times I see it is the 1800 Got Junk ads. “We make junk DISAPPEAR!” It doesn’t disappear. It shifts into some other place where someone else has to deal with it. It doesn’t vaporize. BTW, I’m not throwing shade on their business, obviously people may consider it very useful. I just hate their ad and the obvious falseness. We the people, myself included, accumulate WAY too much stuff because of a variety of reasons, and it doesn’t just become nothing. It gets dumped somewhere, some reused, some brand new, some not even designed to be reusable. All material that is going to be someone else’s trash or treasure or just plain problem. Oh well…not my problem *drives away*
Is there still a lot of things outside