Letter: People in need are far too fussy over furniture

Letter: No wonder people are in debt or are they just fussy? My mother recently passed away and left a three-bedroom house in Telford full of decent furniture. No, it wasn't antique, and no it wasn't smack up-to-date modern either, but it was good quality and well looked after.

Having no need for this ourselves we decided to give it to charity - well, what a job that was. My brothers rang several places and three people came, took one look at it and asked for £200 to take it away, saying no-one wanted "that kind of stuff". That kind of stuff being a dining room set, beds and bedroom furniture, coffee tables etc.

Simply, it was quoted that "it is so easy for people to get up-to-date modern stuff on credit that there is no call for second hand furniture".

Pieces of useful equipment like a stair lift and a good quality electric bed, 12 months old, no-one wanted. Surely some poor soul would have been glad of it, but no go.

Consequently, all items were removed and deposited at the local dump.

What a sad state of affairs when one would rather go into debt than accept good quality second hand furniture only being disposed of because it was no longer needed.

Are charities getting choosey as well? Pride comes before a fall.

Claire Hughes

Canada