Thank you all. While this subject has been long and with many many opinions I have found it refreshing, enlightening, informative and educational. In fact it just may have given me a new lecture on the subject. We all have our own opinions about the subject and reading through the postings has given me anew perspective on the subject. How would a leture with the title "Use Up or Suffer the Consequencies" sound.
Consequences might be: guilt at thinking somone might be cold; waste not want not; filling the land fill and causing environmental problems, etc etc.....just thinking here. Idle hands must be active. amd ot goes on. But then I have to drag a plastic bag full of these donations in for show and tell and then show samples made from each of the unwanted or ugly stuff.