We constantly get these charity bags pushed through our tradesman's entrance.

Some of them are clearly fake charities (like Helpmates LTD) and many of them ask for unwanted clothes (if I don't want clothes I don't buy them and when I do they tend to be second hand anyway).

The other day we got two genuine looking charity bags.

They were asking for unwanted books, DVDs and video games as well as the usual clothes and such and I noticed a few bits and bobs that I didn't think I'd need, bagged them up and left them outside the drawbridge to the Chateau.

The two bags were for different charities.

It had been snowing a little so I went outside to check if they had been collected as I wouldn't want the objects inside spoiled by the damp and gone to waste.

One of the bags had been taken but the other had been tossed into the hedge and I wouldn't have noticed if I'd given it a casual glance but seeing what I thought to be a bit of litter I pulled out the bag for The British Heart Foundation.

Thankfully the bag was in one piece.

Why it was put there and not collected or left in place is beyond me.

I shan't bother filling any more of the things and take anything I have direct to a shop the next to I venture into town (which I rarely do).

I swear half the stuff in my recycle bin is either junk mail or these sodding charity bags.

It must cost them.

And ironically (considering Ziggy's statement above) THIS!