A mum who accidentally gave the wrong bag to her local charity shop which included some very personal items said she was left mortified to have to return the following day in a bid to retrieve it

A woman has said she was left physically cringing in a ball of shame for 40 minutes when she realised she had accidentally donated a bag of very personal items to her local charity shop.

The mum explains that she and her husband had been having a clear out, and were bagging up a lot of their old possessions for donation.

They went through baby clothes, toys, wardrobes and kitchen drawers during the declutter, and the woman said she also had a sort through her “private quarters”.

This came in the form of a bedside drawer, which contained sex toys as well as other important items including “some very sentimental jewellery”.

She put the contents of the drawer into a bag to put away again when they were done, but during the clear out of her old clothes, accidentally threw some dresses on top and forgot all about it.

It was only after she dropped off the pile of bags to “two very nice old dears” at her nearby charity shop and returned home that she realised her “calamitous mistake”.