We have a charity shop here in the village which supports a hospice...
LL buys loads of books from them and takes them back when she has read them so they can sell them again.
She went in yesterday with a big bag of read books but they wouldn't let her buy any new ones 'because they were restocking the shelves'.... 
Honestly, you couldn't make it up.... 
One of the locals is a recently retired electrician and his wife works in a charity shop in Newbury.
People keep offering them electrical goods, which they can't sell because they have to be safety checked and that costs them too much.
He is fully qualified and has properly calibrated equipment, safety stickers and so on.
He offered to check every item for them and certify it safe, at no cost.
They declined because he is not an 'approved contractor', so it all goes in the skip.
I now have a nice Henry hoover, a pillar drill and a halogen spotlight for the workshop.
