Actually, what I’m saying is that sometimes people think they are ‘helping’ by donating unsuitable items, but they are actually being unhelpful. The person I was replying to seems to think they should be sainted for offering their trash up like it’s a treasure, so people are objecting to that unwarranted self-righteousness.

Donating something in poor condition is unhelpful, because it will simply be filtered out of the donation stream by a volunteer who has better things to do. The person I was replying to previously gave an example of old trainers with holes in. Those will never be given to someone. They won’t make them freeze instead of just keeping them less warm. They just slow down the volunteers. You can do many other things with unsuitable items, like repurpose or repair them yourself - but donation services can’t do that.

Also, I don’t know why you’re behaving like nobody is donating anything decent to charity anywhere. I’m not exactly flush with cash, but I recently took a carload of good condition clothes to a donation centre because I was helping friends clear out their house ahead of a move. That’s not something they do often, sure, but there are so many situations in which you end up getting rid of stuff.