Homeless shelter workers and volunteers of this subreddit: how would you react and what would you say to a donor who tried to donate wristwatches to your homeless shelter?
One time, when I had enough junk in my donation bin to fill it completely to the brim, and that junk I knew could be useful to other people less fortunate than me, I brought it to the homeless shelter one evening and when we were sorting through the stuff they wanted versus the stuff they didn't want, I then produced a smartwatch that I had bought on Amazon for about $45-$50, that I turned out not to like as much as I had anticipated, but I knew it would be useful to other people. As soon as the Black employee or volunteer of the local homeless shelter in my town saw my orange smart wristwatch from amazon, he said:
"A wristwatch? But we only provide the bare minimum."
So he didn't accept my old smart wristwatch. Therefore, I had to donate it to a charity Thrift Shop elsewhere in my town.
So to those of you who are employees or volunteers of your local homeless shelter, how would you react and what would you say to the donor who tried to donate smartwatches there?
And to those of you who are ordinary homeless shelter residents, if you witnessed a donor attempting to donate a smartwatch, how would you react to that? Would you tell the employee/volunteer and donor "Sure, I'd like that wristwatch?" Or what would you say/do?
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