Charity shops

I encountered this "Charity shops " concept when I first came to United Kingdom to accompany my husbands post graduate foreign training. I was not aware of such a concept in Sri Lanka for all the time I was there. ....Even if such a thing existed, I don't think it would gain much with our " holding on" mentality...

In a society where our mothers neatly preserve the first dress, school uniform, cot...bed..etc..etc.. there's hardly any letting go...
We are habitual hoarders ... we hoard things, clothes ,furniture, porcelain, books ....this and that everything...
We don't like to give them away... we want to preserve it to the next generation... next generation from our own breed...not anyone else's...

How many of you have unused furniture and electrical goods, cloths, books taking space in your homes, not knowing what to do with it? For me I can think of a whole lot under the care of my mother as well as my mother in law...
And when we move places, go to a new home, we'd always prefer to buy anew...

This concept of charity shop fascinated me from the beginning... where people would just give away anything and everything that they no longer wanted, for free... to theses charity institutes that would refurbish/ repair/rectouch them and sell... and the profit would go to the Heart Foundation,  Cancer Research, etc etc...etc.. and many other charities...

It's such a wonderful concept..
Why hoard things that you don't need, hold on to them for pure greed and the inability to let go of the attachment to the things?
This concept reduces clutter...
Funds charities ... as well as offer a wide range of things to the community with a subsided prize....

We Asians are born with not only the thrifty gene for carbohydrates...
We are born with thrifty gene for every stupid materialistic thing!!!!
Yet we chant about letting go from dusk to dawn!!!!!!

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