Adopt an Angel

@Whodunnit I knew a woman who used to be a bell-ringer to collect donations. The collection boxes are locked so only the head person at each Salvation Army can open them up and count the money. The woman I knew would keep a good track of the donations in her mind and they never added up after it was collected and counted. She figured it was getting skimmed off the top by the people who were counting the money. I’d never give them a dime due to that.

@whowasthatmaskedman and who are you speaking of

@akindheart I suppose it varies from country to country. But here the RSPCA is fashion for professional fund raisers..😷

@Jenny1234 brutal, don’t these people have a conscience

@Ghostinthemachine they really don’t!!

@Jenny1234 it’s the “haves” wanting even more, at the expense of the “have nots”…and at a Christmas time too.

@Funtoy4u One year we did it at work. Our entire department sponsored a family with several children, the mother was a widow. She signed up for the Christmas store and my manager decided to sponsor this family for Christmas. He asked her to give a list of things that the family needed. She gave a list for each child and herself including sizes of clothing, and other wants. By the time our department was finished with bringing items in they filled the back of a pickup truck. The manager also offered her a job when he and some others took the gifts over to the family. She worked a week and quit saying it was not what she had in mind. I’m pretty sure they were getting enough in SSI benefits for the children that she didn’t have to work and probably didn’t need to apply to the Christmas store for free things either, but she did. The next year the workers asked if the department could sponsor one of their own…a woman who also had several children and was battling cancer and that’s what the department did.

@Funtoy4u thats what i am talking about

@1Dogma who gets your stuff? the garbage or the collector?

@akindheart of course the collector. I'd hand a separate garbage bag to him saying, "these are shoes & clothe then he'd put it at the driver's seat."

@Crazywaterspring exactly. I mow her grass and clean her yard and gutters. Her son is aitustic, her daughter is a heroin addict and shes raising her 2 grandchildren

@MarineBob something i shoukd look into. My church is just trying to help

@TexChik when i pulled the angel i didn't look at the name i just bought the gifts. I wish i had chosen an american

@SW-User i feel my taxes have gone to support illegals and for them to ask for a fire tablet at 7. That is not a priority. I would rather help.citizens

@akindheart Okay...it's your money to do what and how you wish.

It just feels like another form of prejudice, especially to a child.

@SW-User call it what you will but i help the illegals enough. I would rather help an american

@pianoplayingsteve i dont get what that has to do with my post