Anyone inviting an unhoused person to Thanksgiving?
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Anonymous
| If not, why not? |
Anonymous
| Seems cruel to subject them to dinner with my parents. |
Anonymous
| The unhoused have no interest in coming to my house or yours for Thanksgiving. |
Anonymous
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I found this so inspiring!
https://thealternativedaily.com/invite-homeless-share-meal-table |
Anonymous
Seems like a dumb question. Sure, let me invite some random person who may or may not have serious mental health and/or substance abuse issues into my home. |
Anonymous
| As introverts, my while family would be very uncomfortable with a total stranger in the house. The kids would probably not come out of their rooms. |
Anonymous
LOOOOOL that’s hilarious. Nowadays the homeless would come in wrecked on fentanyl and would probably take a poop on your carpet. |
Anonymous
Why? The homeless in this story were in fact "Here were two able-bodied, young people who could get a job, work hard, earn a living and give back… but they were not doing that. They were, in fact, homeless by choice." I don't see anything inspiring in the story at all. |
Anonymous
| We invite people with no place to go and have participated in DC Central Kitchen’s Thanksgiving among others. However, we found that the groups that serve the unhoused population usually have an over abundance of help on Thanksgiving, so we volunteer on the less popular days when they are short on volunteers. |
Anonymous
| We don’t use people as props. |
Anonymous
| What the heck is unhoused. This entire post reads as nothing but virtue signaling. |
Anonymous
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Oh god I could write a book on the people that have been to our family's Thanksgivings over the years. My grandpa was a Chicago Police Sergeant for 10 years and then was asked to become Mayor Daley's body guard for a decade while also working security for high profile people that visited the city- Neil Armstrong, the Kennedys, MLK Jr, Muhammed Ali among others. He also (still) owns a good old Irish dive bar in the city. My dad was a beat cop in Chicago for 22 years and then became head of community relations for CPD. We have literally shared Thanksgiving meals with everyone from prostitutes to bank robbers to members of the Kennedys and people from all the walks of life in between. My grandma has been hosting every year since 1955 and their house is still the catch all for people who have nowhere to go.
You should see the people they get Christmas cards from still at 88/89 years old! |
Anonymous
| are you? good luck. |
Anonymous
| When my grandmother was alive, we had big family holiday get togethers. I have an angle who is very religious and likes to pick up strays. I can remember one year in particular that I got stuck talking to the person he brought. He was mentally unwell. I remember thinking how much I’d rather be visiting with my grandmother (who died the next year) or my cousins who i didn’t get to see often. It’s jsit not my thing. |
Anonymous
Do your family was corrupt and mobbed up? |