Salvation Army donations are increasing as the holidays approach. But one drop-off site is finding that what is one man’s treasure may just be another man’s trash.
The Salvation Army Thrift store on Jefferson Street in Kerrville can fill its entire warehouse full every 3 to 4 days. When they go back to work each morning the back area is overrun with items that are unloaded after hours. A lot of the stuff belongs at a dump.
Clayson Lambert, manager of the Salvation Army Family store, said, “The items that are being dropped off that are purely trash is just taking an excessive amount of man power. This time of the year we need that money going to the focus of our cause.”
On Monday mornings the pile of refuse is the worst. It is closed on Sundays but the donations keep on getting dropped off.
Usually helpers sift through the donations to determine what can be dropped off.
The Salvation Army store says when no one is around on Sundays people unload stuff that should really be taken to the dump.
The thrift store has to tap into their own budget to get the unusable stuff hauled away.
So how do you determine the difference between trash and treasure?
