Goodwill Employees Reveal The Most Surprising Donations

From Redditor /u/Jakestair:

I started working there in March. Earlier this week, an older man donated a bag of dog waste. He probably meant to discard it later. I picked it from the container, asked what the smell was, and threw it in the trash. Then I threw away my gloves.

From Redditor /u/chillando:

I worked at Goodwill during my junior and senior years of high school. I found two taxidermy items. One was kangaroo testicles in a glass case like a trophy. The other was squirrel slippers.

From Redditor /u/onionofyourbusiness:

A glass jar simply said, “Fart June, 1975.”

From Redditor /u/SlackerNerd:

I acquired many items! I got weed, a barrel of wine, needles, and once accepted a cat hiding in a clothing box. I also found things like a 14 ft Christmas tree and a Nazi lantern.

One man tried to give me his truck. My store accepts vehicles, but they require paperwork; they are not donated directly to the store. My lead got angry when I took a bouncy castle.

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/thepurplehedgehog:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">The mystery knitter sometimes leaves a bag. Various days bring a nondescript white bag with white tissue paper on top. Inside, you find knitted babywear—cardigans, hats, booties—all different sizes and colors. Everything is hand-knitted with the same talcum powder scent. We tried to find the owner by marking the front of the shop, but we never succeeded./font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">I still visit for a chat and a rummage. The Mystery Knitter is still dropping things off./font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/burntends97:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">This guy brought in a metal Dance Dance Revolution pad. It looked like it came from an original arcade machine./font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/xNekozushi:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">We once got a winter jacket with a lice comb and a very old hard-boiled egg. A coworker took the egg outside and threw it away, which is how we learned it was hard-boiled./font>/font>

From Redditor /u/hecticengine:

An S&M collection was present. It included a whip, a fur glove, several heavily illustrated, very violent novels from the '70s, and other forgotten items. My manager let me take most items for $0.99 each. She kept the fur glove.

From Redditor /u/mohawk_ADE:

A blazer vest held a live bat inside comfortably. It was a cute little guy.

I never got pictures; I was under the age of smartphones then. I got the thickest gloves to carefully grab the bat and release it outside.

From Redditor /u/PM_MeYourSnootBoops:

I got a box of rubber baby faces. There were about two dozen. I sold them to a guy who hadn't visited before for six dollars. That was a great deal.

Redditor /u/A_Love_Stain:

A guy bought his girlfriend a $15,000 engagement ring and tennis bracelet for his proposal. She said no, and he was too embarrassed to return it. He donated it for a tax write-off.

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/ScaryisGood:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">A suitcase full of sex toys./font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/KirbyPaint:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">My personal favorite is our dead guy Gregory. We keep his box of ashes in the cash room because we wait for Loss Control (or whoever) to collect him. No one from Corporate ever takes him; he has been with us for over a year./font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">Myself and many coworkers like him. We make sure to introduce new cashiers to Greg. If something strange happens, it was probably Gregory's ghost./font>/font>

From Redditor /u/Manflu09:

Pretty tame, but someone received a donation of soup cans ten years old. People got old cans for about a year, but a decade?

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">From Redditor /u/legolarry27:/font>/font>

font style="font-size:13pt">font size="3">One woman donated trash from her car every weekend. She gave us fast food wrappers and junk mail. We took it, and it was thrown away right as she left./font>/font>

From Redditor /u/le_vulp:

I worked at Goodwill. To pass time, my friend and I started The Museum Of Sh*tty Art. The collection included a print of an astronaut urinating on the moon, a cat brooch showing its rear end, and a ripped canvas with a painting of a lily that only a four-year-old with severe motor issues could make. One day my friend had off, and a lady bought one.cat-assh*le-brooch. She cooed about how cute it was.

I thought I broke a rib laughing so hard.

From Redditor /u/PJ_lyrics:

Weirdest? I was only there a couple of weeks, but the one time I opened a box and found a used breast pump, I thought, who thinks they can donate that gear?

From a former Redditor:

We found a used adult diaper, a pecan pie, a dead turtle, and a pan with fresh meat. I told a woman we do not take baby furniture because of recalls. She yelled, "The baby is dead anyway," threw a bag of clothes on the ground, and drove off.