I hit a point two years ago, where I decided that we have enough money that we do not need to donate food to food drives. We do not need to add to the packs of KD and spaghetti and tea, etc. Instead, at Christmas, when all the food drives are going on, we give cash to the local food bank, so that people in need can have some fresh food for the holidays. The idea that you would see my empty driveway and judge that you know why it's empty, is appalling.
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I hit a point two years ago, where I decided that we have enough money that we do not need to donate food to food drives. We do not need to add to the packs of KD and spaghetti and tea, etc. Instead, at Christmas, when all the food drives are going on, we give cash to the local food bank, so that people in need can have some fresh food for the holidays. The idea that you would see my empty driveway and judge that you know why it's empty, is appalling.
Don't quite understand your reasoning. You now have enough money so you don't have to donate food to food drives? Beyond me I'm afraid.
I didn't find it that difficult, she's donating cash so people can buy healthier food instead of processed crap in cans and boxes.
wow, just wow. You need to get checked out. Here, I'll hi-lite the pertinent passages and try and give a simple explanation.
See, the instead is the most important part. They have the extra cash, so they donate money rather than buying boxes upon boxes of dry goods and renting a truck to deliver it to the different food banks. The food banks can now use that money to buy those things that they are short of and in need of more than cases of Kraft Dinner, spaghetti, can's of beans, and cheese whiz.
You are the only one making assumptions here. I have been doing this for a while and know my area.
We donate cash to some charities and we donate food to food drives. When the big stores have a case lot sale we load up.
There is nothing wrong with Kraft Dinner or cans of beans....when I was at university I lived on that kind of stuff. Kraft Dinner is great if you put in real cheese.
But it's easy for people to donate cheap boxed food stuff, and that's predominantly what food banks get. What they could use more of is the cash to purchase perishable foods. If someone wants to do both, that's fine, but donating cash to a food bank is very helpful thing.
We also got some pretty upscale foods from the less affluent neighbourhoods. Also stuff that nobody thinks of like pet food.
It's O.K. #Juan, but nothing will constipate you faster than real cheese, so a slice or two of it a week is OK, but better than K.D. is fresh milk, fresh eggs, fresh chicken, fresh salmon, fresh vegetables those contribute to LIVING, the others stave off starvation.
Back in the bad old days many seniors ate that.
If you do have to donate packaged crap, a bag of oatmeal is probably the "best bang for the buck" nutrition wise.
Which is fine... the charity is not lacking in KD. They are lacking in cash to supply fresh food, so I choose to donate that.
Part of why I started giving cash was someone talking about the need for soap, shampoo, and toilet paper at food banks. It was then that I realized how hard it is to truly fill the needs by donating items.
I really wouldn't know how to begin helping you understand.
not if you have hair and want to be able to get a job, etc.
What's to understand? Fresh food at the bottom of a donation bin doesn't fare well. Seems rather self explanatory to me.
And you personally know these "cheap" well-to-do people and the charities they donate to?
I still see quite a potential gap between what you know and what you think you know. ;-)
The only thing you know for sure is that they didn't donate to your particular food drive charity.
A bit of overkill here re: Juan's comment, don't you think?
I had to re-read it myself to get the proper sense of it.
and therein lies the point, it isn't about age, it's about need. He gave his pension away plus more...not all are so generous
the seniors in my building are very generous...but they are middle class, not wealthy
Many donate to charities on a regular basis- 1 of mine is the Stollery Foundation and the other the Hope Mission.
So I never participated in food drives, nor at stores cashier when paying for my goods made a donation to the Stollery - I already was donating, cash, every month