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Across the Fence:  Donating  |
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Bonne
True Blue Farmgirl
3003 Posts
Bonne
Littleton
CO
USA
3003 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 3:00:05 PM
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I do it all the time, mostly so that I can walk a straight path through my house, but also because there are so many needy causes out there that can convert people's reusables into $$ for their charities. One cause that is near and dear to me is the Wildlife Sanctuary in Colorado http://www.wildlife-sanctuary.org/
They are having a garage sale to raise $$ Sept 22-23, and are asking for donations for the sale. I gave them a call and today Pat's (who started the sanctuary)son came over to pick up all the items we had for them. If you watched "Growing up Black Leopard" about Eddy, this is the place where Eddy lives.
Enuff about me, what do YOU do to contribute to your community/causes/charities that are near and dear to you? I'd love to hear about it.
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 3:44:34 PM
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Donate mateiral to VaNessa Behan nursery, for kids and parents in crisis. In past I helped make some of those quilts. Love doing it cause they take them home with them, it is all there very own.
Enjoying life. |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Tammy Claxton
True Blue Farmgirl
1559 Posts
Tammy
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - Sep 04 2007 : 9:15:48 PM
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I crochet baby items for Heartfelt Angels in Need. They give baby items to local hospitals for parents who lose a child or have very little and need something to take their baby home in, etc... We also crochet hearts and angels for families of tragedy such as Virginia Tech.
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger! |
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Shirlaroo
True Blue Farmgirl
297 Posts
Shirley
Australia
297 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 12:04:19 AM
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I do the usual and donate clothes. I go through my familys draws every season and donate clothes that we do not use any more. I make a point not to donate anything that has holes though, these charities need decent clothes that they can sell and give to the needy. I save the clothes with holes in them for rags and use them for cleaning. I also donate my time to our local school. Teachers are over worked and need our help.
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Edited by - Shirlaroo on Sep 05 2007 12:10:27 AM |
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tribalcime
True Blue Farmgirl
2963 Posts
lisa
lexington
ky
USA
2963 Posts |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 05:49:45 AM
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I donate clothes and household items to the Vietnam Veterans. I also donate money to the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 06:00:36 AM
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I used to donate my time (2 years of it) to a rural animal shelter (until I broke my own spirit). I donate clothes to charity, and I volunteer at the VA Nursing Home, visiting the elderly vets, helping them with bingo, what have you. I am currently looking in to being a court appointed advocate for juveniles in the system. Hoping that will be something I can do!
"She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. |
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wallflower
True Blue Farmgirl
101 Posts
Holly
East Walpole
MA
USA
101 Posts |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 09:49:15 AM
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| We donate good, used clothing; and usually around the holidays one of the third grade teachers at my kids' school organizes a food drive for the food pantry in town. I try to give my kids some money, and we go shopping. They learn to shop to buy as much as they can with the money they have, and they learn generosity and charity by donating to others who may not have much! |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 10:00:59 AM
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we donate whatever we are not using anymore as well as bounty from the garden that I have bumper. We donate money when we can to MPR, Sierra Club, St. Jude's Children's Research and Disable Vets. We participate in a few fundraising auctions from time to time as well, where we donate some of our products to raise money for whatever. Most recently it was an auction for a local girl who got into a terrible accident. Two bags of laundry detergent raised $80! YAY! During Katrina we donated to the Red Cross and I use to to the Relay for LIfe...before I had kids. I still contribute to them as well though as they are near and dear to my heart.
If you all remember the mama we helped with the diapers for her allergic baby...that was one of the most recent hands on that I have done.
Where do we all get the time for anything!?
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
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Birth is safe, interference is risky; TRUST BIRTH |
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
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Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 10:59:26 AM
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My husband donates time (unloading the truck & organizing food on shelves) & we donate food/$$ to the local food pantry. Clothing & household misc goes to Salvation Army/Goodwill. We donate cash to church and we have an AWANA program for the kids that I donate treats to, for their weekly meetings. Our local Weavers' Guild has donated blankets to the W.I.C. program locally, and I just got information about the local "Binkie Patrol" that handles donations of baby quilts & blankets & bereavement gowns & caps to local hospitals.
There are so many worthwhile local causes. We all have people in our own neighborhoods who need help, so we like to keep our donations local.
Time--good question, Tasha! Especially when you have little kids at home! But, you know it's time well spent if it's spent helping others who need it!! Like Sunshine, I keep something in my purse all the time to work on--crochet, knitting, drop spinning, hand sewing--something, and it's amazing what you can accomplish in those little snatches of time waiting here and there! It's the big projects that stump me. If it's not portable, it's probably not going to get done very quickly in my life.
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Bonne
True Blue Farmgirl
3003 Posts
Bonne
Littleton
CO
USA
3003 Posts |
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2007 : 03:39:49 AM
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| I usually do a once a year clean-out. I give clothes to the Salvation Army. My mom donates her time to the Habitat For Humanity thrift stores. they sell most everything else but clothes, so any pile-up of stuff goes there. All those procedes go to build the houses. |
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