We attend a class at our church with a number of other couples and we have a charity we're raising some money for to build a well in Ethopia. We have a large garage and our community had a garage sale on Saturday, so we offered to let everyone contribute that wanted to help raise some funds.

Of course, everyone was eager to get the crap out of their house and sent over to ours. Only a handful of people actually physically came out to help set up and "work" during the sale. The rest of the people were more than content dropping their crap off and driving off as their child's soccer/baseball/etc game was too important for one parent to sacrifice while my wife missed out to "man" the sale.

Sale is over, a couple of people were helpful to put clothing in trash bags. But now a great idea has surfaced-we can send all of these clothes to Haiti where 3 of them just got back from on a mission trip. The best part is they don't know when any of this can happen and I don't see anyone forming a line to help empty 3 bays worth of garage sale crap cluttering up my garage. There are still tables throughout the garage and cannot even get my trashcans out tonight as it stands.

And yep, I'm the a-hole for telling my wife I'm going to call Goodwill or someone to pick all of this crap up or they can figure out a way to get these clothes out of my garage before the week is up.

Never again...

:-):-):-)
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Your threads are always so uplifting, Duane! :-)
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I feel your pain bro. Just remember it was for a good cause
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Double thumbs up on a call to Goodwill...a great charity....:-)
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:-) not to mention a nice tax write off. I like donating and my wife loves shopping there. You never know what you might find there.

I wouldn't have the patience for dealing with all of this and I totally see where you are coming from.
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I don't think donating it to the goodwill is going to send a strong enough message.

I think you should take all the crap and dump it out on their lawns, then light it on fire.
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Welcome to my world. :-)
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Doesn't help me at all right now. Hell, I'm going to have to find someone to be able to write off my 3 kids as there's not enough to write off.
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That's why I love living in the country. Nobody asking me to host a garage sale. You have to try real hard to get to my house...
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sucks
call goodwill tell them about the volume of your donation and they will have it out before you get home from work
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That's our biggest problem. I drop-off donations and my girlfriend will buy more stuff to bring home. It's a viscous cycle. :-)
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I'd make everyone chip in for a junk removal service cost before they drop anything off.
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Sounds awful...but then again, I've got to agree. If they can't cart the stuff off, then donate it to Goodwill and take the tax write off.

Present it to your wife that way, empty garage + tax write off for all your work = win?
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Yer goin' to hell, ya know; I'll save ya a seat. :-)
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:-):-):-)
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I just ugly something in the mail from the Vietnam Vets that they are actively looking for clothes donations...just sain...
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I've got AmVets picking up everything left from the garage sale on Wednesday next week. Told the guys who want the clothes for Haiti that if they don't come get them, AmVets is getting them instead.

It really says a lot about a person who feels their time is more valuable than yours when it comes to one of the two parents missing one baseball/soccer game.
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no
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This is why I have no friends...I don't bother offering to do nice stuff.
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Sadly, I can relate. My wife is always the one who will bend over backwards to help people out when they need it where I am the one that almost always says "No" or doesn't bother to offer. I learned the lesson a long time ago where my wife still refuses to learn that people love when your there for them when they need it but very rarely return the favor. For example, it's amazing how my wife will take in everyone and their brothers dogs when they go away on vacation etc. but when we need someone to watch our dogs for a few days shockingly no one ever seems to be around, like last week I had to drop $400 to put the dogs in a Doggie Camp because no one was available to watch them while we were in NY but yet we will have other peoples dogs here the next two weeks. Keep in mind our dogs are trained very well and are easy to watch and pretty much self sufficient other than needing to be fed and let out. I also had a situation like forgops not too long ago where we were getting rid of an old couch. Friends of my wifes sister wanted it since they are having a tough time financially right now and could use furniture for their home so we were more than happy to let them have it. After saying they wanted it, it was cluttering up my garage for a month while we waited for them to come get it. After growing tired of having to move it every time I needed to pull out my motorcycle or lawn mower I told my wife that they have a week to pick it up or it's going to the dump. Like you I suddenly became the unreasonable @sshole for putting a time constraint on it.
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