An Impending Clothes Mountain

For the past two years, I have been receiving numerous leaflets each week that request clothing for charity. I have no problem with genuine charities per se, but I do object to the people who are hoarding my letterbox with these leaflets on a day-in/ day-out basis. At one stage, I pasted a note on the front door urging these rag and bone merchants to desist. The requests continued to pile in through the door. On one occasion, I caught the culprit pushing his piece of paper through the letterbox at 7am. He then took the liberty of walking across my lawn and flower garden, and it was at this point that I exchanged some pleasantries with the individual. After all, how many clothing appeals can there be in a week, never mind a year. I have reached the conclusion that they think, that our area is running a Harrod’s scale version of a clothing factory. If this constant request for clothes keeps up, will we all be in danger of contributing to some sort of a European clothes mountain. What will they be looking for next, a request for steam irons?