re: Giving the homeless money.

Quoting meridian:“ I usually don't give them money .... I did give money to a guy who was obviously very severely mentally ... [snip!] ... lady just burst into tears and told them that her son had never had a happy meal in his life and that would make him so happy.”

Aw, poor babies. A child is a whole other deal for me.

There is a lady here that posted on craigslist, another addiction of mine. Her 2 year old just had a growth spurt and she had no money to buy him clothes. With my first I was obsessed with name brand clothing, plus being the only grandchild. He got tons of clothes. I have two lawn size garbage bags full of 2t-3t clothes. So I went thru it and gave her one regular trash bag of 2T, then another regular bag full of 3T. She cried, I was happy I could help.

Quoting Monkey C, Monkey DoDo:“ I just dropped off a whole double duty trashbag of my husbands, mine and my daughters clothes at the ... [snip!] ... also gave them our couch, a stereo system, a blender, Viv........... be back, FIRE ALARM just went off in here........”

We do that every 6 months. Since that is usually when we go thru our unused items. Except ours is call off island thrift. They are non -profit and donate all there money earned to the breast cancer society.

I do when I feel they really need it like if they were missing a leg or something but if they are perfectly capable of working then no
its still sad to see though :[