09-26-2007, 10:09 PM
Normally, Jack would be the guy posting this crap :lol:
We've sent out a request this year, for our family and friends to consider making charitable donations instead of giving us gifts.
Why? I'm not entirely sure. I give gifts at Christmas, but most of the time, I'm not sure that the person on the receiving end will make use of it, enjoy it, or just toss it in a closet. Anyhow, the process of clearing out our house and going through all of our accumulated stuff made me realize that we really don't *need* most of it. And easily 75% of that unneeded cruft came from people, who, like us, felt obligated to give us a gift but didn't really know what we might need or want.
Its pretty easy to go overboard and start talking about excessive consumption and consumerism, but I think that cutting out some of these obligatory gifts and replacing them with useful donations to charitable organizations is a great way to provide a real benefit.
Our recommended charity this year is Caring for Creatures, the animal shelter where we adopted Maggie and Bruce.
We've sent out a request this year, for our family and friends to consider making charitable donations instead of giving us gifts.
Why? I'm not entirely sure. I give gifts at Christmas, but most of the time, I'm not sure that the person on the receiving end will make use of it, enjoy it, or just toss it in a closet. Anyhow, the process of clearing out our house and going through all of our accumulated stuff made me realize that we really don't *need* most of it. And easily 75% of that unneeded cruft came from people, who, like us, felt obligated to give us a gift but didn't really know what we might need or want.
Its pretty easy to go overboard and start talking about excessive consumption and consumerism, but I think that cutting out some of these obligatory gifts and replacing them with useful donations to charitable organizations is a great way to provide a real benefit.
Our recommended charity this year is Caring for Creatures, the animal shelter where we adopted Maggie and Bruce.
My two feet.