Is there a shortage of used clothes in the world?
If so I feel bad for what I did this week. If not, I may carry on after all.
You see, Lindsey and I were cleaning out our closets this week — you know, out with the old in with the new. We live in an 1,100 square foot penthouse condo.
But rather than drive 10 minutes to the nearest thrift story to donate six bags of clothes and a bag of old shoes (which I have done all my life), I was lazy and trashed the used apparel in our complex dumpster.
I’m not sure if I offended mother nature by the act, but surely clothes need to go to a terrestrial grave at some point. Or maybe not.
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I worked at Deseret Industries for a while after my mission, and they send truckloads of clothes to third-world countries every week. They pile them into one of the carboard box compressors and create these thousands-of-pounds blocks of clothes that are wound with bailing wire and then forklifted like blocks onto semi trucks.
very cool to see that they do with donated clothes besides just resell them. And, the people who work there are generally in a position where they are trying to get on their feet or learn some skills that will help them get a job that is more of a career. Very neat experience.
Nice. LOL I like how the photo compels readers to sympathize.