The Linen Bin
In the Spring of 2023, I took a job where I sorted donations into categories like Housewares, Electronics, Toys, and Linens. The influx of donations on a daily basis was substantial and therefore made the job extremely fast-paced and physically demanding. We had to move a lot of stuff, and quickly, in order to stay ahead. Sometymes when I got a mixed bag, or what I called a “Mary Poppins bag”. of stuff … you know, the bag that has everything and just keeps on giving … it could be quite frustrating. I’d drop something in the electronics bin, pull out something that needed to go out to the book bin, only to find more electronics as I went through the bag. It really was quite exhausting. Because of the Mary Poppins bags, sometymes it just made more sense to stand in a central location and start tossing things where they went. Of course, this practice is not recommended for Housewares items; for whatever reason, coffee mugs, plates and such tend to break if you toss them. Odd. Hoever, fo...