A lifes detritus in a charity shop.

[sandyRoe]

While in a local charity shop this morning to have a browse through the bookshelves I noticed a corner of the shop piled high with kitchen equipment. It was the usual, old cutlery, pots, collanders, and fish-slicers. I thought of the women who might have had a lifetime of service from them, but didn't need them any longer. They were probably widowed, in care now, or dead.

[Zeuhl]

You're born, you fish-slice, you die

a cheerful thought for the weekend, cheers sandy

[dotty.]

i have encountered a number of bereaved relatives taking their deceased parent's belongings into a charity shop, one or two have seemed decidedly smug and self-important, I have sometimes observed this behavior and put it down to their feeling of benevolence and disdain and customers actually shopping in a charity shop. could be taking a huge leao there .

[dotty.]

*at the customers actually shopping

[mccfluff]

i need a new fish slice

[sunny-dave]

and a mushroom scrubber fluff?

[sandyRoe]

It's being so cheerful as keeps me going

[mccfluff]

you have scrubbers for mushrooms?

[sunny-dave]

Google is your friend fluff ...

http://img3.etsystati...llxfull.341997507.jpg

[mccfluff]

but i might get infected by mushroomitis

[cathfromsaron]

sad that we collect all this and for what ...

i give anything practical i have no use for to a local homeless charity for people having new accommodation! all items are sanitised, repaired and/or shined up, then sold in a warehouse, you need to book and appointment to get into! (bit more discrete for the guys then)

[rowanwitch]

They might have bought lovely new ones....had a new set as a wedding present.... found someone rich so they don't need to cook

[woofgang]

or sandy, like me, finally getting rid of the extra stuff that is cluttering up their lives :-)

[commoner]

lol...look closely at them and you will find food remains probably from the 1950s or some distant age...ugh!