I'm not sure if it's nothing more than a sign of the times, but there seems to be a proliferation of thrift stores where ever I go these days and this is just one of many local ones. I often discard old household goods that are no longer needed and I generally just put them in a box out beside the road, often with a note describing the state of whatever it happens to be. It is unusual for anything to stay there for more that an hour or so before someone will stop and pick it up and I'm sure that most of these things end up in either a thrift store or a yard sale.