As I believe I have mentioned before, we are pretty much the poorest people living in Stuck-Up. We have to do things like decide which bill to pay and drive around in a car with a busted mirror because we just don't make very much money. That's not the norm here in Stuck-Up, where every family seems to have at least one pristine Lexus and dropping a couple of thousand dollars on a toddler birthday party is no big deal. But hey, that's great for them. Maybe if you all start buying things through my Amazon stores and clicking the ads on my on other blog we'll be able to buy a new car too.
Er, anyway. This is actually not a plea for for you to check out my other sites. It's a bitch session about Stuck-Up.
Does your grocery store have those little paper tags by the cash register that you can rip off to show that you want to donate $1, $3 or $5 to your local food bank? You can just rip them off and add them to your pile of groceries right then, no having to mail envelopes or write checks. Easy, right?
Apparently, I am the only person at the Stuck-Up grocery store who pulls off the tags, EVER. Every time I rip one off (and it's only the $1 one because, er, we're generally teetering on the edge of broke-ness) the cashier looks at me like I'm a weirdo. And I'll tell you something else - the thickness of the stack of tags doesn't ever change. I am slowly peeling them off one at a time. The $5 and $3 stacks are STILL full.
Now, I know that a lot of my townsfolk go to fundraising dinner-dances and write checks to whatever charity is in this year. Some of them do a lot more than that, too. But how come no one can donate a dollar to the food bank while shopping at the grocery store? These same people brought in boxes of food to my daughter's preschool. . .where they wound up at the same food bank.
Can someone please explain this to me?
12 comments:
Maybe it is because they don't get any 'credit' for doing it at the grocery store. Instead they would rather wait for a charity event (excuse to wear gorgeous name-brand clothing) or a food-drive at preschool (everyone sees them walk in with the huge box of food). It's not about the giving; it is about people seeing you giving :)
Mary Kate
I have no idea. We also live in a pretty affluent area, but people here are unfailingly generous.
Well, it seems to me that many people don't give unless they get recognition for it. Ca-razy, right?
I'm with Mkate: they "donate" the most to school for the contest & attention in it. I've noticed with rich people (not me, obviously), the more you have, the more attention you crave. I think there is a correlation. Good for you trying to do the noble thing and not getting noticed.
We have those things as well, but they seem pretty well used. I too live in stuck-up (really the ghetto between two different stuck-ups). I think it is all about the see and be seen as well as the tax write off.
I've had this conversation with my In-laws who live in their own Stuckupville. They wonder why more people aren't giving back to the church like they used to 10 or 20 years ago. I wondered if they weren't giving large sums to other charities and are just tapped out in the charity department.
Not that a buck breaks the bank. Everyone should do it. Maybe they don't believe such a small amount will make a difference?
Mm, I dunno about those grocery store things...we don't have them here. BUT! Everytime I go through the Starbucks drive through the person in front of me buys my drink. Thats kind of like giving to charity, right? Only I am not going to be the one to break the chain so I buy the person behind me a drink and all day long the Starbucks people are probably thinking JUST BUY YOUR OWN DANG DRINKS, MORONS and we just happily drink our coffee and think how nice we are. The end.
No worries...I think you rock...as for the losers in Stuck-Up...maybe they need a stick up their butts? lmao
Keep up the good work
You don't get to put on a fancy dress and parade around when you donate at the supermarket. Plus their maids shop for them anyway!
We have those things as well, but they seem pretty well used. I too live in stuck-up (really the ghetto between two different stuck-ups). I think it is all about the see and be seen as well as the tax write off.
Well, it seems to me that many people don't give unless they get recognition for it. Ca-razy, right?
Maybe it is because they don't get any 'credit' for doing it at the grocery store. Instead they would rather wait for a charity event (excuse to wear gorgeous name-brand clothing) or a food-drive at preschool (everyone sees them walk in with the huge box of food). It's not about the giving; it is about people seeing you giving :)
Mary Kate
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