If all you want for Christmas is your ‘two front teeth’ this year, then you may be in luck, after an unusual donation to a Bournemouth charity shop.
Workers at Samaritans, of 246 Old Christchurch Road, were surprised last week to find false teeth in amongst goods given by members of the public.
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Sarah Sharp, Acting Manager of the Samaritan’s shop, is normally used to searching through bags of clothes and jewelery, before stumbling across a dusty brown suitcase.
“At first it looked like there was nothing inside, but then, when I moved it I heard a rattling sound” she said. Hidden in one of the inner pockets was the bottom half of a set of false teeth, not knowing what to do with them at the time Sharp put them back inside, “they’re not the kind of thing we normally sell but I didn’t want to just get rid of.
“But the teeth have been thrown out now though,” she reassured with a toothy grin.
Sarah said, this is not the first weird donation to be received in Bournemouth either, with one store receiving a hamster cage with the remains of a dead hamster inside.
Lynda Preston, who works at the British Red Cross, 252 Old Christchurch Road, reported similar findings, “I remember seeing this copper pot with a lid, I didn’t know what it was, ‘it’s a spittoon my dear’ said the lady who had left it.” Prescription spectacles have also been found, which can be recycled and sent to poorer countries, “but the spittoon was a bit out of ordinary.”
