Our local thrift shop benefits a hospice care service. They have a big problem with people dumping their donations off in the middle of the night, and so by morning there is often stuff scattered all over outside the store, and in many cases it’s stuff they wouldn’t have taken anyway, as not possible to resell.

Today’s offering was particularly poignant, a copy of a free tabloid called “Parent Express” and a scattering of discarded kids toys.

Obviously, somebody tried as hard as they could…