>obroni wawu, or dead white people’s clothes. Funny but probably true. I can picture clothes from 0-50 years old when cleaning out an elderly estate. We call the oldest clothes "out of fashion". The newest might get repurchased here, what doesn't sell, that nobody wants, gets sent away. In the old days they would be ground up to make under carpet padding and sound deadener materials for automobiles. >Consider exchanging clothing with your family and friends, especially when you have clothes hanging in your closet that have not been worn for more than 6 months. 6 months?! I've got clothes I haven't worn in 6 years or more. I've got a dozen ratty lined and unlined jeans with blown out knees and frayed pockets for working in the yard, painting/staining the house or on messy automotive work. And a dozen ratty shirts with blown out elbows that look fine under a sweatshirt working in the yard. I do use them up. Swapping clothes is not a "real man" thing. Keep in mind that most donated clothing ends up in landfills, so consider seeking out reputable charities that serve the needs of your local community, such as your local church. Are they implying the Salvation Army and Goodwill are not reputable? These are the main recipients of used clothing in the USA, they give receipts that can be used as tax deductions. In the old days my grandmother would turn old wool clothes into wool strips for beautiful hand braided wool rugs (that are made by machine and cost a lot of money today). She also made pulled rugs, thin strips of wool pulled through a burlap backer and hand tied to form a shag rug with patterns. Cloth from worn out clothes would be cut into squares or triangles and sewn together to make colorful quilts. I still have a lot of her works, now 50-75 years old, some never used because they are so nice. The quilts and braided rugs are worth a lot today. The highest and best use for old, unwanted clothes that can't be easily reprocessed might simply be burning them for heat. In retrospect, there was a big cultural shift away from this kind of reuse/repurpose after WWII. The hand-me-downs were still a thing but abundance and simply throwing things out became prominent by the 1980s in our material world.