Christmas Donations

[Warped]

How much do you tend to divvy up?? So far I think I've only donated about 37 cents worth this year which is a record low. Usually I give like $1-10 to Salvation Army every time I shop. Its like feed the rich and f%ck the poor lately though. Most of my money is just going back into some greedy mans hands. Thats why I don't go to concerts and sporting events as much. I know more and more people seem to enjoy living while others struggle to survive day to day. So has anyone done that adopt a child and give them a gift this Christmas?? I feel like its time to do something better this year than spend on my friends and family. We have enough in our lives and the more we buy for ourselves the less we love each other it seems.

 

[Sheepo]

I usually volunteer with the Salvation Army at our mall for 2 to 4 hours. All the good of charity without losing money.

 

[lefty]

I plan on buying a santa suit and standing on a corner with a bucket and bell, collecting for the charity of me.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I plan on buying my less fortunate friends video games.

 

[VirusType2]

Financially, I'm going to have to get creative.


Also, I've grown a beard to save energy

 

[Krynn72]

I always feel bad when I walk past those santas outside of stores without giving anything. I avoid eye contact and walk quicker to make it less hurtful.

 

[Qonfused]

I usually give them my change on the way out.

 

[VirusType2]

Obama has given them enough change; they're just being greedy.


SPARE SOME CHANGE? CHHAAANGGE

 

[Lucid]

I always feel bad when I walk past those santas outside of stores without giving anything. I avoid eye contact and walk quicker to make it less hurtful.

Me too.

I seem to always have an almost empty wallet come December, it's the strangest thing.

 

[15357]

I make it a point to never carry money so that I don't feel guilty about not paying those do-gooders.

 

[Darkside55]

I don't give money, I buy toys and clothes for kids and donate that. Bought a kid a big toy car town playset with some cars this year.

 

[CyberPitz]

I give nothing.

GET YOUR OWN SHIT, ****ERS.

 

[Sheepo]

Ralph Waldo Emmerson in da house!

"Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony."

 

[Krynn72]

I make it a point to never carry money so that I don't feel guilty about not paying those do-gooders.

That doesnt help me. I never have cash on me since I only use my debit card, but I still feel bad that I don't give anything.

 

[Dalamari]

I never have cash on me since I only use my debit card

and

I don't feel guilty about not paying those do-gooders.

That, pretty much

 

[Raziaar]

I never see any Christmas donation things. Then again, I'm rarely out and about... especially when it comes to cold ass winter. ****ing south has softened me.