I tend to put my charity money into a very few recipients who each get more from me than any one recipient would if I spread it out more. This makes it easy to keep track -- any begging letter that doesn't either come from one of my three or four regulars, or catch my attention on first reading enough to possibly beat out one of my three or four regulars for the slot gets thrown away.
You'll get your 2nd CD out before you bother to do this. :)
As for charity choices, I only actively donate to a few and those get time vs cash.
I support Interfilk, my college ($25/year and now only in memory of a professor I liked), my old scout troop, and a number of regional conventions I donate TIME vs cash to.
Everything else is unlikely to get anything from me including a recommendation, but I do occasionally suggest to people to donate to their local food bank as a trade.
My parents do roughly the same thing, but twice a year (sometime in mid-to-late december, and sometime in june/july. Sorting the piles is always interesting.
Also, no, paying them earlier in the year really doesn't generally make them stop sending you things. Quite the reverse, really.
CharitiesharmonyheiferDecember 29 2007, 09:48:54 UTC
As a single mother struggling to put food on my own table, I always managed to donate to our local food bank because they help a wide variety of those in immediate need and have an excellent track record of rolling even small sums into a lot of assistance with very low administration costs. I still do this, although the check is a bit larger these days. I have also supported public TV and public radio even when money was tight. These days I have the money taken out of my checking account monthly
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Re: CharitiesmdlbearDecember 29 2007, 16:00:58 UTC
It certainly annoys me. Supposedly that's what property taxes are for; unfortunately our idiot politicians are always more willing to cut school budgets than to raise taxes.
My standard response to door-to-door and telephone solicitations is the same: we don't transact business that way. Send me something on paper.
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As for charity choices, I only actively donate to a few and those get time vs cash.
I support Interfilk, my college ($25/year and now only in memory of a professor I liked), my old scout troop, and a number of regional conventions I donate TIME vs cash to.
Everything else is unlikely to get anything from me including a recommendation, but I do occasionally suggest to people to donate to their local food bank as a trade.
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Also, no, paying them earlier in the year really doesn't generally make them stop sending you things. Quite the reverse, really.
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My standard response to door-to-door and telephone solicitations is the same: we don't transact business that way. Send me something on paper.
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