After seeing ads wanting donations in both the newspaper and on tv, my wife and I had quite a bit to donate after some remodeling and our daughter moving out. We called only to be told that we were out of their pick up area (theres a store about 10 miles from our house) and we would have to bring it to them. Wait a minute, you are paying to place ads in the newspaper and on tv begging for donations because donations are down because of the economy being bad and here we have all kind of stuff to donate and a store 10 miles away and you won't come pick it up???!
We called Habitat for Humanity and they came out and picked everything up within a few hours of us calling them, and thats who we will donate to from now on.