- Charitable orgs keep sending me return address stickers. I send so little smail-mail now, I think I have reached a lifetime supply. #
- ‘Tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day, meanin’ ye must use the two letters of the Pirate Alphabet: Ayyye and Arrrrr! #itlapd #
- When both Margie and I need to be on work calls from home, and given our poor mobile reception here, Google Chat calling works great. #
- 4 of 5 stars to The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein Link #
- 5 of 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Link #
- 3 of 5 stars to Incorruptible Volume 4 by Mark Waid Link #
- Kunoichi back fr her day-long dental work (bad tartar and gingivitis, with anaesthesia). First act: look for Neko, groom her. #
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I have a lifetime of return address stickers from charities that I don’t contribute to anymore, or ever did. I’ve rearranged my charitable giving to give more dollars each to a few organizations that A) I trust; B) don’t spent an exorbitant amount of their income on overhead; and C) don’t proselytize. My local food bank is a good example; so are Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. But especially in the three months leading up to Christmas, I get return address stickers from every Christ-centered Podunk Boys Home / Indian Mission / Home for Homeless that exist. Now, these may all be up-and-up charities and doing excellent work, but I don’t have time to check them out and they invariably violate Item C.
It’s difficult to trust some of these charities that advertise on the radio. I heard an ad that exclaimed “100% of your net contribution” went to feeding the hungry or whatever it was. That’s meaningless! Of course the whole net contribution is what is spent on such things. I need to know what part of the gross contribution goes to helping the needy! If the net is, say, 5% of the gross, I want to know this so I can donate elsewhere.
I wonder how many people hear “100%” and think that all of their money is received by those who need it.
@Karen: I have a variety of charitable organizations that I support, and many more that I’ve done one-off donations to. Too many of those have probably spent as much in administrative costs sending me more reminders and pleas and return address stickers as I gave them in the first place. (To be fair, I am told that some of the charities I have solicited for, e.g., through the Blogathon, are just as bad in that way.)
@Avo: Wow. Anyone who used that line I would assume is trying to hide something.