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Putney High Street

Why are there so many food takeaways in the High Street, one after the other, surely we want clothes and shoes.  Cafe's Sushi, Burgers, non stop each side of the High Street, it's a disgrace.  Ice Cream Parlor so expensive you never see anybody in there, Bubbly drinks in the Putney Exchange, also Donuts. Also going up towards the station now all food cafes. Do they think that is all people do all day is eat, yet their telling people to be careful what they eat and giving them weight loss jabs and pills. Why keep opening all these food shops, we need clothes shops for all the ones who's clothes don't fit them because they are now thinner.

Barbara Stevens ● 16h9 Comments

Do everyone Gift Aid your donations to charity shops.  It helps them to make more money.  So you didn't like the handbag Barbara?  I suspect it was something special even if you didn't like it.  I once saw an absolutely fabulous one in Liberty's by Alexander McQueen but it cost so very much that I just wouldn't have dared to use it even if I owned it.  It was a real work of art and needed to stay untouched and on display!  I used to work near there and it was a favourite shop with the most lovely fabrics.

Philippa Bond ● 6h

Do everyone Gift Aid your donations to charity shops.  It helps them to make more money.  So you didn't like the handbag Barbara?  I suspect it was something special even if you didn't like it.  I once saw an absolutely fabulous one in Liberty's by Alexander McQueen but it cost so very much that I just wouldn't have dared to use it even if I owned it.  It was a real work of art.  I used to work near there and it was a favourite shop with lovely fabrics.

Philippa Bond ● 6h

Well David, the Charity shop obviously looked it up. Lets hope if it's sold the money goes to where it is meant too.

Barbara Stevens ● 8h

Either a very generous donor, or they had failed to look it up before donating. What should the charity shop have done otherwise?

David Ainsworth ● 9h

You do not live in Putney Philippa, I looked in the window of a charity shop in the High street, so a used handbag had a price tag in the window of £225.

Barbara Stevens ● 9h

People need to eat regularly and many very busy working people no longer can cook or live somewhere without a kitchen or don't have the time or want to cook.https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/27/sainsburys-to-cut-300-jobs-as-it-restructures-tech-team-and-argos-deliveriesAs new tech takes more jobs there will be more people who will be buying less extra clothing.  There will be even fewer of the part-time jobs needed by those who are aldo working as part-time carers for the elderly, the ill and disabled.  Many of these are unpaid carers.

Philippa Bond ● 12h

https://www.greenheartcollective.uk/blogs/sustainable-living/heres-how-many-clothes-the-average-adult-has-in-their-wardrobesHow many of the items in your wardrobe do you actually wear?  Apparently the aversge number is over 100 and we only wear a small percentage of these regularly.My MIL who died in her nineties still had items in her wardrobe that she had worn before WW2 plus plenty of things that I think she'd bought online that she'd never worn and perhaps never fitted.  I've recently been wearing a fleece that I bought over 30 years ago and which I fell out of love with but which I've fallen in lovevwith again because it's warm and it fits better this year.  I've also altered a favourite jacket so it has an inside pocket - why are men's jackets so much more practical.Dry Cleaners often have people working there who are good at mending and altering clothes.  There's nothing better than another copy of a favourite comfortable style that fits.  It certainly beats trudging around looking for something new.You can now buy some great elastic that has ready-made buttonholes all along it's length which is brilliant for when you need to keep adjusting waistbands.I read recently that the Salvation Army has now closed some clothing banks because so much clothing is now of such poor quality.  There's so much new imported cheap stuff being imported from countries where the labourvis cheaper and working standards and rights are questionable.  Not that there aren't sweatshops in the UK too.When did you last search the rails in a charity shop for something that you like?  There are often some hardly worn gems of really good quality?

Philippa Bond ● 12h

I particularly enjoyed 'Cafe's Sushi, Burgers, non stop each side of the High Street, it's a disgrace.'

Miles Thompson ● 13h

There are charity shops too.

David Ainsworth ● 15h