Set him on fire and use the heat to warm the homeless.
HA HA HA HA HA! Remember when that guy was like “if they want to go to good schools they should have parents that can afford good neighborhoods!”
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
Buying presents for poor kids stimulates the economy too, and I don’t know anyone who ever thought “Being poor is awesome, I get a free skateboard once a year.”
I don’t understand where this notion that poor people act or feel entitled to free money and material possessions comes from. LIKE HAVE YOU MET A RICH PERSON?
For several years we were those kids. We would barely have had presents at all if it weren’t for the nearby church that collected presents for us.
ALTHOUGH.
It actually kind of sucked. Because many of the toys people donated were ‘gently used’ aka kind of dirty, and some of them missing pieces that were vital to their functioning. Some of the toys were the kind you get with a Happy Meal. It was depressing.
So um, if you’re ever in the position to get toys for kids in need, get them cool shit? Get them new shit. Get them shit that makes them feel good and not like an afterthought.
That saddest part about this is that out of the schools I go to, the ones in the lowest socio-economic areas are the ones who are always taking collections for disaster relief, for refugees, for people worse off than them, even though these families can barely afford it, they give what they can for others. The schools in higher socio-economic areas don’t do half of that shit and they can more than afford it 😦
“Between 2006 and 2012, a new Chronicle analysis of IRS tax return data reveals, Americans who make over $200,000 a year decreased the share of their income they devote to charity by 4.6 percent.
Over those same years, a time of recession and limited recovery, these same affluent Americans saw their own incomes increase. For the nation’s top 5 percent of income earners, that increase averaged 9.9 percent.
By contrast, those Americans making less than $100,000 actually increased their giving between 2006 and 2012. The most generous Americans of all? Those making less than $25,000. Amid the hard times of recent years, low-income Americans devoted 16.6 percent more of their meager incomes to charity.”
The giving tree thing is PERFECT, imho, if you can wangle it. If y’all have never seen one (I don’t know how common they are), there are paper ornaments hanging from a tree. They have price tiers, usually designated by color or where it is on the tree, like, pink would have gifts under 5 dollars. You’d pick one and open it and, inside the folded ornament would be an item that a person in need said they could use specifically. That way, it’s not just like broken toys and smelly old coats.
A church we used to attend did the giving tree and it was fantastic. You always knew that what you were buying was genuinely useful to the person receiving it. And for ours there was an option for going in with other people for bigger presents like coats, boots, or the more expensive toys.
Those tags were ALWAYS GONE, and it made everyone feel really, really good.
I genuinely do not understand the mindset that doesn’t feel good by giving.
It’s just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That’s definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.
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