Yup -- Help the Aged in a small northern market town... Can't quite remember why, now. I remember being treated with suspicion by my colleagues (Doris, Val, something along those lines) when they discovered I could take 50% off the prices for the sale without a calculator.

The musty smell is one part mouldy fabric to three parts octagenarian bodies.
NEVER AGAIN.

Oh. Looks like it's just me, then.:? Feeling like a bit of a freak now, if I'm honest!

How about a new question, then -- If you won the lottery, how much (if any!) would you give to charity, and which would be your first choice?

*thinks*

Actually, that's pretty hard! I'm going to go away and ponder that one...

I am the original secondhand Rose...But even I wouldn't go in a 'Help the Aged' charity shop, except for christmas cards. I try and buy a packet from each of the charity shops.

If you really must work in one, look around. I don't know about London, but up North, charity shops are going 'upmarket' Slotted in amongst the trendy High St shops of many city centres they are barely identifiable.

I walked my friend into one here in Birmingham city centre and it was a while before she realised what shop it was. She was horrified, and I took great pleasure in watching the "all fur coat and no knickers" snob, squirm so. great pleasure

The problem is HTA and some of the local hospice charities are the poor relation to the like of Oxfam, Children in Need

But I've got to say that going to work in a charity clothes shop as your bit for charity is pretty lame.

I am certain you have skills that could be better utilized by charities and would be far more interesting and dare I say productive for yourself...Leave the old fashioned charity shops to the elderly ladies and bored houswives that have always run them.

@Tahliba

I never knew bored housewifes are the ones who run charity shops

thanks for the insight

jeeez ( I am trying how a bored housewife look like )