I was in a store that sells clothing for younger people. I bought a shirt for a gift, and asked for a box. The clerk told me that "this year, we are doing something different". The boxes were for sale, the cheap gray cardboard boxes with advertising on them. You could pay 50 cents, but the money would go to "charity". If I'm going to pay for a cheap box I used to get free, I will go to a dollar store and at least get an attractive box without a store logo, one that I don't need to wrap unless I want to. I was kind of offended. Was I wrong to be annoyed? I do give money to charity more at Christmas. I like to give my change when I'm in Stewart's, as they match it and it makes me feel like a more effective giver. I also donate to a food drive or two, put money in the Salvation Army kettles, and drop off toys to one of the collection sites. I'm wondering what types of giving others like to do this time of year.
Our bank used to wrap gifts for free at christmas. They would request a donation for a charity but it wasn't mandatory. It seemed a good compromise... you got your gifts wrapped for free and the charity benefitted from the donations.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I was in a store that sells clothing for younger people. I bought a shirt for a gift, and asked for a box. The clerk told me that "this year, we are doing something different". The boxes were for sale, the cheap gray cardboard boxes with advertising on them. You could pay 50 cents, but the money would go to "charity". If I'm going to pay for a cheap box I used to get free, I will go to a dollar store and at least get an attractive box without a store logo, one that I don't need to wrap unless I want to. I was kind of offended. Was I wrong to be annoyed? I do give money to charity more at Christmas. I like to give my change when I'm in Stewart's, as they match it and it makes me feel like a more effective giver. I also donate to a food drive or two, put money in the Salvation Army kettles, and drop off toys to one of the collection sites. I'm wondering what types of giving others like to do this time of year.
You were probably annoyed before you even got in the store.
Some people are always on the verge of becoming annoyed - which in itself is very annoying .
You were probably annoyed before you even got in the store.
Some people are always on the verge of becoming annoyed - which in itself is very annoying .
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You were probably annoyed before you even got in the store.
Some people are always on the verge of becoming annoyed - which in itself is very annoying .
only because you know at some point you're going to hear some parent say "shut the fu(k up you little a$$hole" from the other side of the store...especially at Walmart....
I couldn't give enough in charity to fix that >
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Many stores have stopped supplying boxes. I PERSONALLY don't think boxes should be associated with a charity....imho....did they say 'what' charities?
We give to 'individuals' that we know are in need. And we always give to 'selective' charities and churches....and not just at Christmas time.
But for Boxes = Charities....nah...not for me anyway.
We feel that whatever God has blessed us with.....we will 'pay it forward'.....but again....that's just us.
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Box, I seem to remember Carl Co. doing something like that. bt, they didn't say what charity, but I didn't ask either. A lot of stores did stop giving out boxes. They seem to all be going after the same market, teen to young adult, ultra-cheap very disposable fashion, so they are on a razor-thin margin I guess. I'm with you, I'd rather personalize my giving throughout the year, but I do step it up a bit this time of year because they get such a surge in demand. I think people are getting fatigued with the charity thing because like everything else, they start it way too early and it goes on way too long. You never used to see those kettles out in November. Maybe that's part of the reason their take has been going down.
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