Donations for clothes for prime minister?

hollydolly said:
of course they don't need donations for their clothing...

Did you also know that despite them cutting the £300 heating allowance for pensioners this year.. each and every member of parliament get over £3,000 heating allowance, on top of their already high salary .. yep that's 10 x as much as the Tax paying pensioner was getting..
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I did hear about the pensioner's heating allowance for the winter. What I think about it I cannot repeat.
 

chic said:
I did hear about the pensioner's heating allowance for the winter. What I think about it I cannot repeat.
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Public sector employees and the members of the German government are not better. They got a huge compensation for inflation of 3000 Euro in 2023.

This is an article in the German "Handelsblatt". The headline and the text below in English:
"Cabinet members receive 3000 euros - some want to donate
Public sector employees receive a bonus due to increased prices. This now also applies to federal civil servants. The chancellor and most ministers want to donate the money." (translation by deepl.com)
Handelsblatt

By the way, these are the monthly allowances for members of the German parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in Euro over the last years.
In blue is the amount they must pay tax for, in black the amount without any tax.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/d...hoehe-der-diaeten-der-bundestagsabgeordneten/

And the small country Germany has after China the parliament with the highest number of representatives: 736 members!
 
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horseless carriage said:
And did you know that the government has legislated for an increase from 66 to 67 in 2026-28 for paying state pensions, and to 68 well before mid century?
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What happens if someone becomes disabled before that age and can’t work anymore?
 

jimintoronto said:
Patty. I think you should do a look up about what Value Village really is. It is a huge corporation, that makes millions of dollars per year in both Canada and the USA. It's shares trade on the New York Stock exchange. It is not a charity, at all. Read this link about a court case in Alberta, involving Value Village, and the Judge's ruling.

link. Judge rules Value Village guilty of deceptive marketing practices - Alberta Press Leader
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Same with one of the US's most famous and long-lived charitable thrift store chains, Goodwill Industries. Started out in the early 1900s as an ambitious non-profit church charity. The business model: sell donated clothing and household items, and staff retail shops with the "unemployable" - i.e., the mentally and physically handicapped, disabled military veterans, reformed ex-convicts.

It was wildly successful because people could simultaneously get really decent goods for super-cheap, get rid of decent stuff they no longer need/want, and do something charitable at the same time. Revenue after overhead built more stores, bought trucks for picking up large donations, and commissioned huge, secure bins to place all around town so people could leave their donated goods at convenient locations.

Today it's a global conglomerate. It sells shares in the stock market. Because its a non-profit org. its actual net worth is basically unknown, but several years ago it was reported that Goodwill Ind's tax returns showed that more than 100 of their thrift stores pay their retail staff, sorters, drivers, etc. less than minimum wage, but their top executives were getting over $53.7 million in total compensation.

One former Goodwill CEO was the highest paid executive in the entire US. You know that's saying a lot. His annual earnings of $1,188,733 included a base salary of $350,200 and bonuses totaling $87,550. After serving as CEO for 17 years his annual retirement benefits included $71,050 plus $637,864 in "deferred compensation".
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Ditto. Most of my clothes are from value village, which is a thrift store or Costco.
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I'll tell you Peppermint, I don't know what I'd buy if it wasn't for thrift stores. First, it's totally relaxing for me to go to thrift stores and then I get stuff cheap. Some thrift stores are getting expensive. I don't look much at the clothes at Goodwill. I'll scan but I can do much better at PAWS or our little thrift downtown. Both run dollar racks also.

And I know all the 10% and 25% off days for seniors and go accordingly.
 
I know GW is not my favorite. Or Salvation Army. Very grateful for our small thrift stores in town. GW will sell a tank top for 6 dollars. I can find those on the dollar racks at PAWS and the downtown thrift.
 
hollydolly said:
lol.. they're not literally getting donations of clothings.. they're getting supposed cash donations to buy expensive clothing etc...
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Actual money? Wow. I can see as others are mentioning any designer wanting a famous person to wear their clothes. That can really boost sales. I'll bet there is all kinds of shady stuff that goes on between designers and rich people in the media.
 
Remy said:
I know GW is not my favorite. Or Salvation Army. Very grateful for our small thrift stores in town. GW will sell a tank top for 6 dollars. I can find those on the dollar racks at PAWS and the downtown thrift.
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We have several small, independent thrift stores here. There's one in particular I really liked that was sold to GW a couple years ago. GW is trying to buy them all out. :mad:

We have an Eco-Thrift, which is a major chain that appears to doing business on the up-and-up. That's where my son used to go to get clothes and miscellaneous junk to make his family's cosplay costumes, when they were doing Comicon shows.

Like these here....

(that's his son in the background 😂)
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His wife at a performance (she's the one on the right🤪) ...
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Was just looking through the catalog of fall clothing from my (formerly) favorite store, Coldwater Creek, and decided I couldn't afford anything in it. Well, I guess I could technically "afford" if, I just refuse to pay prices like what they are charging for ordinary stuff like sweaters and pants.

So my question is: could I run for Prime Minister? Or do you have to be British?
 
Remy said:
I'll tell you Peppermint, I don't know what I'd buy if it wasn't for thrift stores. First, it's totally relaxing for me to go to thrift stores and then I get stuff cheap. Some thrift stores are getting expensive. I don't look much at the clothes at Goodwill. I'll scan but I can do much better at PAWS or our little thrift downtown. Both run dollar racks also.

And I know all the 10% and 25% off days for seniors and go accordingly.
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To be brutally honest, I don’t purchase clothes from thrift stores cause I can’t afford to purchase them otherwise. I purchase them there for variety. The variety thrift shops offer is awesome. I’m almost guaranteed I won’t see others wearing the same thing. Since the clothes are cheaper, I can purchase more of them. My man never had to complain that I’m out spending too much on clothes cause that never happened. I also shop on senior Tuesdays for 25% off.
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
To be brutally honest, I don’t purchase clothes from thrift stores cause I can’t afford to purchase them otherwise. I purchase them there for variety. The variety thrift shops offer is awesome. I’m almost guaranteed I won’t see others wearing the same thing. Since the clothes are cheaper, I can purchase more of them. My man never has to complain that I’m out spending too much on clothes cause that never happens.
I also shop on senior Tuesdays for 25% off.
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Before Covid almost everything I purchased came from the thrift shops, flea markets, etc…

I enjoy the hunt and if I make a mistake or get bored with an item I can donate it as part of my own personal catch and release program.

Since Covid, I buy what little I need as I need it from conventional sources.
 
Remy said:
I'll tell you Peppermint, I don't know what I'd buy if it wasn't for thrift stores. First, it's totally relaxing for me to go to thrift stores and then I get stuff cheap. Some thrift stores are getting expensive. I don't look much at the clothes at Goodwill. I'll scan but I can do much better at PAWS or our little thrift downtown. Both run dollar racks also.

And I know all the 10% and 25% off days for seniors and go accordingly.
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Our charity shops really tend not to give discounts for seniors.. so as you say many of them now charge almost as much if not more than you can buy them new in discount stores . It takes the insensitive away from buyers.. to purchase something used when it can be bought for new... and therfore the charities suffer..

Also more and more C shops are selling Tat... Once upon a time you could buy designer clothes for bargains prices.. that's rare now...
 
PeppermintPatty said:
To be brutally honest, I don’t purchase clothes from thrift stores cause I can’t afford to purchase them otherwise. I purchase them there for variety. The variety thrift shops offer is awesome. I’m almost guaranteed I won’t see others wearing the same thing. Since the clothes are cheaper, I can purchase more of them. My man never had to complain that I’m out spending too much on clothes cause that never happened. I also shop on senior Tuesdays for 25% off.
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I agree. And for me looking and finding stuff is relaxing. And I got new jeans and a sweatshirt for $4.50 each since they were 25% off. I have an ugly but warm floral print pull over sweatshirt I wear only at home in the winter. I did see a woman wearing the exact same thing in a store. I got it off the $1.00 rack at PAWS.
 
Remy said:
I agree. And for me looking and finding stuff is relaxing. And I got new jeans and a sweatshirt for $4.50 each since they were 25% off. I have an ugly but warm floral print pull over sweatshirt I wear only at home in the winter. I did see a woman wearing the exact same thing in a store. I got it off the $1.00 rack at PAWS.
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Good stuff. It sounds like you got a fabulous deal. You can’t go wrong picking a nice sweatshirt and for only $4.50. 😎
 
If you're the Prime Minister, and you're going to a celebrity filled to-do where the King & Queens will be, with lots of cameras; you don't show up in $23 Walmart suit/dress. Tain't nothing new.
Nancy Reagan was famous for her expensive red designer gowns, paid for by doners.
 
Mrs. Reagan had gowns loaned to her by designers, as many rich and famous celebrities do. It's advertising for the designers, but these people can certainly afford to buy them. I would think it a great shame for rich people to accept donations for their clothes. JMO
 
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