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Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
Bless you!
exsupahero
Geeky member
posted: Sep. 1, 2008 @ 1:40a
lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
Bless you!
Charities aren't limited to homeless people. What about the ones that help battered women restart lives and get jobs? They might need a handbag to complete an interview outfit.
dealfinder10
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 1, 2008 @ 2:17a
exsupahero said: lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
Bless you!
Charities aren't limited to homeless people. What about the ones that help battered women restart lives and get jobs? They might need a handbag to complete an interview outfit.
lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?Wouldn't it just be easier to kick all the clueless people off fatwallet?
One charity that helps vulnerable women get started or re-started in the work world is "Dress for Success", which fits them with an interview outfit, purse, pantyhose, shoes, jewelry so they can make a good first impression. They have frequent donation days and, at least in my state, there is a big dry cleaning chain which accepts donations for them at all times.
lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
Bless you!
Some charity organization has a shop (i.e. Goodwill) They love to take those items and sell them at their shops. After that, they can use the money to do what they need to do. And yes, often that you will find brand new items there with good price. For example. an $1.99 items may sell for $7.99 or more over there. In that case, the charity organization may have more cash(minus the expenses) to help others.
piecetyme
Tired Member
posted: Sep. 1, 2008 @ 1:54p
lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
Bless you!
As long as we're going slightly off topic, just heard on the radio today that the Salvation Army has set up a coffee shop (similar to a Starbucks in concept) where they give some "dignity" to those who haven't had much lately. Free coffee & snacks in a coffee shop environment. What a nice idea. Dignity is hard to come by when you're down & nearly out! Hooray Salvation Army!
I think a cute, little, donated purse is a perfect, thoughtful thing...
Good for you, Rameez786.
windowontheweb
Member
posted: Sep. 1, 2008 @ 1:59p
lray said: Since when is a handbag a necessity? Shouldn't charities deal with necessary items? Why not give a homeless person some food instead?
ReinRamm said: Rameez786 said: Will buy the $1.99 ones and donate it to charity! Amazing post OP! Thank you!
dead? or is site just swamped or are they currently fixing it? sometimes i get the "We are temporarily out of items in this category", and sometimes many pages of items will show up. not sure what's going on. have tried both ff3 and ie6. haven't tried chrome yet kuz i haven't installed that on this comp.
They sold all these in the B+M for 75-90% off a month ago. They totally cleared out the section in the stores around here. It was probably posted in the clearance thread, I know it was on other sites.
Edit to add they are all still showing as 75% off in the OP link for me.
megamerican
Member
posted: Sep. 4, 2008 @ 1:39p
Also... donating these items to a thrift store means it would be resold and the charity gets the proceeds.
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