Weird Nonprofit Donations

A major food drive once netted us, among other things, a 20-year-old gift set of Belgian beer.

"Bloody drawers" as my coworker put it. In a bag with roach killer stick ons attached to the side.

we received a christmas ornament/piggy bank that looked like a vagina. no joke. we tried to think of other things it may have been...peach with a pit was our only other idea and it did not look like a peach and pit. HORRIBLE!

We had a donor bring a broken, cat hair-covered humidor for our auction.

Used toothbrush and many many donors donating their used underwear... I don't care how much bleach you used I'm not giving that to a homeless woman...

used plunger.

Oh and apparently long ago we also had a crypt donated to us (not this same one, but you get the idea). We had it for yyyyyyyyyears until recently when one of my colleagues sold it on Craigslist. ​

My favorite item donated to our homeless shelter was the size 11, sparkly gold lamé spiked heel shoe....only the left one.

This is not really funny, more like disturbing. Some years ago I was volunteering at a transition house and had someone call with a ridiculous donation (side part of the story). The ED says "I remember when I worked at a homeless shelter and I received a call from a woman saying she had fresh baked cookies she would like to donate." Long story short, the woman broke a glass while she was baking the cookies and didn't feel they were safe for her children so thought she would donate them instead. *blank stare*

A container of left shoes

I've seen jell-o so old that there is no SKU# just a faded purple circular stamp reading ".1 c" 9"