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SPOILEDkiwi · Oct 30th, 2009, 04:06 PM

Maybe she doesn't get paid for her work and the organization allows her to take a few things for free as payment.

nycfashionlvr · Oct 31st, 2009, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by fashionistaO

BLAH, what you did was a good deed.
I donate every year and I also volunteer often.
Happy to see everything finds a new home and puts a smile on someone's face.

I do agree but not if she's doing it to get free designer goods that ppl donate!! I would try to find out if she herself is a victim first but from what op said it doesn't seem that way so if I saw her in my shoes this would annoy me to no end and I would have said something .

Originally Posted by SPOILEDkiwi

Maybe she doesn't get paid for her work and the organization allows her to take a few things for free as payment.

Still not acceptable to me, thats why it's called volunteering.

caitlin1214 · Oct 31st, 2009, 12:58 AM

I guess you could take comfort in the fact that those shoes have a good home?

ZippyWho · Oct 31st, 2009, 04:36 PM

I know of a volunteer who took the 1st dibs of the donated items. She is my boss's boss wife, who also make the same amt as the husband. They are loaded, but she is just frugal.

OP, I would let it go. It went to a happy home.

lolitakali · Nov 1st, 2009, 12:47 PM

If it bothers you, why donate it in the first place???

I'd keep all my stuff if it bothers me.

blah956 · Nov 1st, 2009, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by lolitakali

If it bothers you, why donate it in the first place???

I'd keep all my stuff if it bothers me.

i donated brand new stuff and slightly used stuff so that women in abusive homes could have new clothes to use and to go to work in. Not so that some newly 21 something could get dibs on for no reason.

the girl has a lot of "vintage" items. the other day in class (we both are part of the same group for a project) she was saying she bought some vintage chanel flats. not mine but if she got them from the place she volunteers/works at, then she couldn't have "bought" them.

Divyaangana · Nov 1st, 2009, 08:00 PM

I wouldn't be bothered by it. As many others have said it could be in payment for working with that charity.

Frankly I would be kind of pleased that I did know the person who took them (even if only by association). Because then I also know that she is loving them and getting some good use out of them.

And who knows? That one pair of shoes might make the difference in her getting a better life for herself by giving her some much needed confidence.

toadette0_0 · Nov 2nd, 2009, 09:14 PM

Very well said! You guys are so positive and have very good hearts

tillie46 · Nov 2nd, 2009, 11:07 PM

Take it as a compliment that she obviously must have thought you have good taste, because she ended up with the shoes!!

Oct 30th, 2009, 04:06 PM	#16
SPOILEDkiwi not a kiwi! Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,285	Maybe she doesn't get paid for her work and the organization allows her to take a few things for free as payment.
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Oct 31st, 2009, 12:58 AM	#18
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Oct 31st, 2009, 04:36 PM	#19
ZippyWho Member Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 337	I know of a volunteer who took the 1st dibs of the donated items. She is my boss's boss wife, who also make the same amt as the husband. They are loaded, but she is just frugal. OP, I would let it go. It went to a happy home.
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Nov 1st, 2009, 12:47 PM	#20
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Nov 2nd, 2009, 09:14 PM	#23
toadette0_0 Member Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 47	Very well said! You guys are so positive and have very good hearts
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Nov 2nd, 2009, 11:07 PM	#24
tillie46 Member Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,761	Take it as a compliment that she obviously must have thought you have good taste, because she ended up with the shoes!!
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