We seem to get a lot of charity clothes collection bags pushed through the letter box in our current house. We must get one every week or two. This is more than I remember getting anywhere else and must be way higher than the national average. I'm sure I used to get one every few months at previous addresses.

Most of the time they are from the same few charities. I don't know how often they expect us to change our wardrobe but even if we bought everything at Primark and threw all our clothes out every few months, we still wouldn't get through enough to fill a fraction of the bags we get.

The bags give a date (or more often just a day of the week) when they are going to be collected. If you don't put any clothes in then the charities say they would like the empty bags back. After a while I stopped bothering to put them back outside and started to keep them for bin bags. Returning the bags only seemed to encourage them to give us more, rather than signal to them that we don't have any clothes to give away.