This pile of clothes came from one donor and it's 3 feet high and 6 feet wide. This is the reason we have people make appointments to drop off their donations. It took over 4 hours to cherry pick out the good stuff (I did that part from her car) and get everything on to hangers. Donors like our appointment schedule because the other places will shut down once they're full and you never know when that's going to happen. Taking in only four donations a day is the most our small store can handle. Yes, some days the donations are small but then we get this whales in which takes all day to process. It was surprising that almost all of this donation were clothes that we would take. Usually when it's this much, there's a lot of trashy stuff. The head office thinks I can run the store with just one person (when I don't have enough volunteers) but this is the reason why I can't. If I had to leave this donation to handle the front of the store, it would snowball into a hot mess. Without the new stuff coming in, we would have nothing to sell, so then what?
It is interesting we get a ton of small sizes, (those ladies like to shop a lot) something thrifters complain about. We do have a plus size section but we really have to market that group to get plus size clothing in.
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