Jeri, where I live, there is a covered shed lined with shelves and a big floor area for larger items such as furniture at the transfer station where people can leave servicable items for others to take if they like - I'm guessing you have a simiar facility.

I can tell you why I might leave new clothes there, even with my limited budget - Some one (usually ma) bought me something that doesn't fit or I simply don't like, I move it around until I lose the receipt to return it, or the store is thirty miles away and I never shop there (I'm not much of a shopper, so even if it is 10 miles away I'm unlikely to be going there for something else). after a year I get tired of moving it around every time I dust or rearrange the closet, the yard sale I have been promising to have for 5 years still hasn't happened, and since I am not much of a shopper I also don't get around to taking it to the local charity thrift shop, I engage in some major cleaning or rearranging project that results in a load of stuff I have to take to the dump myself because the trash men won't take it, and since I'm going to the dump anyway, I take a look around the place, spy the 'new' clothes that are going to dry rot if they keep laying there much longer, think "Ah, recycle shed!", grab them, and finally get them out of my house and out of my way.



Sort of related comment....I have three different clients with meager incomes from disability who supplement their incomes by having monthly yard sales stocked with items they cull two times a week on a regular schedule from the local recycle shed.   Those extra, under-the-table couple of hundred bucks per month make a big difference in whether they eat and pay the heating bill or not. They have an informal agreement as to whose day it is to scavenge from the shed and rotate weekends when more stuff gets left than through the week, so that everyone gets a fair shot at the good stuff.