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Consider donating a few benjies to the local food bank today. Lots of families need food and with 2 days off of work for most next week, they'll be in a tough spot the first week of December.

Plus it's thanksgiving and you're cool as shit, donate a few bucks today!
 
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Great thread +rep

Also a lot of local schools will have gift trees so you can donate a present to a kid who might not get one.

Anyone who spent their childhood dirt poor on welfare knows christmas time isn't always a happy time. Even a $10-$20 gift can really brighten a kids situation.
 
This is a post that I see forwarded to me almost every Thanksgiving/Christmas. It's from scalzi.com and really, really good.

Agreed with Deliguy. You may have never been poor, but trust me when I say it sucks. From SCalzi.com:

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won’t hear you say “I get free lunch” when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.
Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t mind when you ask for help.
Being poor is off-brand toys.
Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.
Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.
Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt.
Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.
Being poor is Goodwill underwear.
Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.
Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.
Being poor is your kid’s school being the one with the 15-year-old textbooks and no air conditioning.
Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.
Being poor is relying on people who don’t give a damn about you.
Being poor is an overnight shift under florescent lights.
Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.
Being poor is a bathtub you have to empty into the toilet.
Being poor is stopping the car to take a lamp from a stranger’s trash.
Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.
Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.
Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.
Being poor is not taking the job because you can’t find someone you trust to watch your kids.
Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.
Being poor is not talking to that girl because she’ll probably just laugh at your clothes.
Being poor is hoping you’ll be invited for dinner.
Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.
Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.
Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.
Being poor is your kid’s teacher assuming you don’t have any books in your home.
Being poor is six dollars short on the utility bill and no way to close the gap.
Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.
Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid.
Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually lazy.
Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.
Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn’t bought first.
Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that’s two extra packages for every dollar.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is getting tired of people wanting you to be grateful.
Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.
Being poor is a box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa.
Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.
Being poor is deciding that it’s all right to base a relationship on shelter.
Being poor is knowing you really shouldn’t spend that buck on a Lotto ticket.
Being poor is hoping the register lady will spot you the dime.
Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won’t listen to you beg them against doing so.
Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go away.
Being poor is making sure you don’t spill on the couch, just in case you have to give it back before the lease is up.
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is four years of night classes for an Associates of Art degree.
Being poor is a lumpy futon bed.
Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.
Being poor is seeing how few options you have.
Being poor is running in place.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.
 
damn reading that list was hard. Sad but so true.

Even if you're not an AM baller and struggling to get by there's easy and cheap ways to make a big difference because dropping some change into a goodwill santa's bucket doesn't exactly fix shit.

Food is a huge stress reliever. Even the most caring families can become abusive when theres no food on the table.

You obviously have a computer if you're on this forum. Burn an age appropriate CD and donate that old discman and a pair of headphones. Sometimes when you're young if you don't have to hear the problems the problems don't seem so big. Don't mean to bring personal life into this forum but there's a reason why I'm so into music now. Trust me just do it.

Everyone on this forum is good people though, so I'm sure theres no convincing needed maybe just a reminder.
 
That was a hard list to read, and I can add my observation that the poor pay more for everything, especially and including getting to their money. They often don't have bank accounts so they use check cashing services that take a chunk in fees. Payday loans are the worst of all.

You can make an immediate different by joining a freecycle list and putting your stuff out for people who need it. Yesterday, I posted I had a space heater to give away, and somebody grabbed it within a half hour.

People need clothes, housewares, entertainment, furniture. Freecycling is a great way to help out without spending anything.
 
Along with the gift trees you can go to your local post office. A lot of them keep a box of "Letters to Santa" You can pick one and make some kids dream come true. Some of them are really sad.
 
We helped sponsor a lift kids hope charity golf scramble awhile back:

Lift Kids' Hope! Charity Golf Scramble | Convert2Media

We have put a point in our business to seek out some stuff like this. We also sponsored tshirts for you good folks here in WF:rasta:

Doing stuff like this makes you feel better because in the end, marketing and advertising can be such an ugly business. Er something...

My fiance actually grabbed one of my books "Go Green" awhile back and has been saving and recycling water bottles like a motherfucka. She's on some environment kick. I would like to think that since my fatass consumes about a dozen bottles of water a day, I'm doing my part.
 
Usually around Christmas I'll make sure I find a few homeless people that didn't know about the shelters (you'd be surprised) that have openings and get them there. Something my highschool requires everyone to do for graduation (volunteer in a soup kitchen) and it really creates a good momentum.
 
Great post +rep.

Made some donations not too long ago but just had to again after reading that. Donated some moolah to a food bank around here.

Christmas is just around the corner and they'll be lots of hungry families with nowhere to turn but their local food bank. Let's make sure they have enough food to go around. :)

Btw, at food banks, cash goes a long way because they get the majority of their food a lot cheaper than us. So if you're thinking of donating just do straight cash rather than going out and buying the food yourself.
 
Great thread. I always donate money, clothing, anything that someone else may need or want. But I don't just do it around Christmas time, its important to help out throughout the year. Families go hungry during the year, just as much as they do during the Holiday season.
 
yea I am about to go on a christmas present run for a local charity.

The other day I took a bunch of old clothes to this guy that lives under a bridge near my condo. Now he is decked out in a gor-tex north face jacket and patagonia fleece. I hope he doesn't get his ass beat for them
 
Many of those definitions of "poor" listed above could almost be considered "rich" in some parts of the world. TV... a car... beds.... toys... food....
 
Great thought. Everybody can give something. BB and Deli are right, if you are on here you are in so many ways blessed already and prob take them for granted. We all do. If you are a noob that is not making money yet, you can still give. Give time. To some children that is more important than anything. If you bank, give money and give time. And if you have children, make sure you incorporate them in the giving so that it becomes a habit for them as well.
 
Here's one for those of you with kids.

My son is always bringing home those annoying "fundraiser" pamphlets to raise funds for school. You know the one where you have to go around to all your neighbors or coworkers and guilt them into buying tins of popcorn or cookie dough? All because the kid just wants the crappy2 dollar prize that you got from raising 500.00 and only 10 dollars goes to the school? Yeah major soapbox of mine. My son never understands why we don't want to "help" others and why I always get so angry....

Anyways, here's the point. My neighborhood had a local drop off for the can food drive and we decided to go around and collect cans from the neighbors. We finally did the door to door thing, my son understood that this would directly benefit those who needed it, we didn't feel guilty ( I mean everyone has extra canned goods that have been in the pantry for who knows how long), it was good exercise, and it was fun!

We'll be doing it again soon.
 
Donated a shitload of food to the local foodbank today. I even slipped a single packed cigarette in there.
 
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