Charities Not Accepting Used Items?

[BleedBurgundy]

I had everything on Craigslist since last Friday, no takers. I tried a local women's shelter, no luck. Today at work, someone told me he could use them, so I'll drop them off tonight. It's not a big deal, it just surprised me how hard it actually was to donate some really good condition appliances.

Not to be ignorant, but if you're in the situation where you need to go to Goodwill, Salvation Army or Habitat for Humanity, are you really in the place to be turning things down? Shouldn't you be grateful for what you can get? Aside from the super rich, just who the hell goes out and buys a bunch of brand new appliances and takes them to a charity? That's the only way the ones above said they would accept them.