Vent - enough already

[WDSearcher]

Id spam them without hesitation! Do it now. You will be much happier! LOL.

One thing that irks me is when cashiers ask for donations. Every store i shop asks if i want to donate $2 plus, to whatever charity. EVERY store. I shop a lot, so I could quite easily go broke if I said yes every time. I donate on my own time, im not comfortable giving money at the register simply because im skeptical as to where the money is going.

But remember that the cashier is just doing what they're told to do. It's like the people at the drive-thru automatically asking you if you want a pie or a second whatever for free -- it's whatever the "promotion of the month" is. No one expects you to say yes every time (or even at all -- the cashiers always look shocked when I say, "sure" when they ask about donating). But they ask because that's what the store is doing that month.

FWIW, I'm much more comfortable giving money at the register than dropping it in a bucket somewhere. It ends up on my receipt (helpful for tax purposes) and provides a record of the store's participation. If you wanted to, it's pretty easy to ask the store for a record of how much they raised and where it went.

 

[WDSearcher]

The one that puzzles us is the regular phone calls for donations to some Police charity. They call about once a month and have a really fast, slick, practised patter. I always say, "no thank you, we are tourists" and then hang up.
Not sure if it is a scam or not but it has been occurring for the last eight years whenever we are at our Florida home.

ford family

As far as I'm concerned, that's why God invented Caller ID. Just don't answer!

I'm always worried that when I turn down the Police charities, that I'll dial 911 one day and they won't show up because they'll recognize the number as "that family who never gives us any money".

 

[Arielle22]

My niece does a walk once a year. It is for a great local Children's hospital where my great niece (niece's daughter) had open heart surgery at 3 days old. The same hospital where my daughter had surgery at 6 months old and my nephew was in and out of as a micro premie.

I love the hospital and we donate as soon as my niece puts out her first email (about 3 months before the walk). We still get group emails from her weekly and eventually daily asking people to donate. Drives me nuts.

 

[lynypixie]

My boy is in the beavers (boy scouts). All the campains drives me nuts.