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Perhaps if people where taught to give to charity more like in Islam for example and it was made important in families then there wouldn't be need for shops as well filling up all the lots in the towns. Most people will prefer to teach their children to save their money than to 'waste' it, so its no surprise that charity shops are so wide scale and depended upon. People seem to only give if they recieve something in return.

I remember that when I was younger we had fairs to sell junk in school, so that we could give it to a charity. Now school funding is also low in some cases that the schools need to raise money for their own equipment and it defeats the whole lesson of giving to charity in a way.