Incredibly expensive give asks in charity drives this year.

[Anonymous]

You need to do a tree from a reputable charity. Ours was legos, hats/gloves, science kits and dinosaur stuff. Reputable charities will review requests and specifically state how much you should spend on a child. Ours was $75-100

[Anonymous]

We've stopped donating, we don't buy gifts this expensive for ourselves. Assume they want big law donations only or something.

[Anonymous]

It's such a turn off, and why I don't do these things anymore.

And , yes, a lot of it ends up resold.

[Anonymous]

They should just call these grifter trees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just don’t give to charity the government already takes and wastes enough of my earnings

Okay Ebenezer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just don’t give to charity the government already takes and wastes enough of my earnings

Okay Ebenezer

Right???

They should move to Somaliland for a year and get back to us.

[Anonymous]

People receive so much in this area that we always donate to other areas. We generally call the social service agency in an area with a high poverty level. They refer us to local organizations and schools. We get an idea of what children need and ages. This year we sent winter coats for 12 children and 12 dozen socks in various sizes. I know it is not exciting but the groups say the items are appreciated. We order items on line and have them shipped directly to the organization.

We only wish we could do more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People receive so much in this area that we always donate to other areas. We generally call the social service agency in an area with a high poverty level. They refer us to local organizations and schools. We get an idea of what children need and ages. This year we sent winter coats for 12 children and 12 dozen socks in various sizes. I know it is not exciting but the groups say the items are appreciated. We order items on line and have them shipped directly to the organization.

We only wish we could do more.

If you’re worried about resellers, sending new coats to soome other area isn’t the way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People receive so much in this area that we always donate to other areas. We generally call the social service agency in an area with a high poverty level. They refer us to local organizations and schools. We get an idea of what children need and ages. This year we sent winter coats for 12 children and 12 dozen socks in various sizes. I know it is not exciting but the groups say the items are appreciated. We order items on line and have them shipped directly to the organization.

We only wish we could do more.

I live in a rural area with a high poverty rate and we do a coat drive every year and get hats and gloves to go with them. You’re right that they’re not fun gifts necessarily, but I hope it frees up some money that would have been spent on essentials so the family has a little bit left over and can buy the fun stuff themselves. I really don’t think the items we buy are being resold. We get the size and gender of each kid.

[Anonymous]

“Give asks”? We’ve reached a new low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People receive so much in this area that we always donate to other areas. We generally call the social service agency in an area with a high poverty level. They refer us to local organizations and schools. We get an idea of what children need and ages. This year we sent winter coats for 12 children and 12 dozen socks in various sizes. I know it is not exciting but the groups say the items are appreciated. We order items on line and have them shipped directly to the organization.

We only wish we could do more.

I live in a rural area with a high poverty rate and we do a coat drive every year and get hats and gloves to go with them. You’re right that they’re not fun gifts necessarily, but I hope it frees up some money that would have been spent on essentials so the family has a little bit left over and can buy the fun stuff themselves. I really don’t think the items we buy are being resold. We get the size and gender of each kid.

of course nobody was talking about hats, regular jackets and gloves getting resold. it’s the items like video game systems, specific nike shoes, ipads and designer clothes/jackets these kids are asking for that are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to do a tree from a reputable charity. Ours was legos, hats/gloves, science kits and dinosaur stuff. Reputable charities will review requests and specifically state how much you should spend on a child. Ours was $75-100

NP. The one I do is reputable, it’s a major county based organization. Still, the wants are very expensive. I do think kids just want those special dream gifts that their peers have. Also, often even poor kids have technology and video games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Give asks”? We’ve reached a new low.

don’t be stupid-you know it was a typo and meant to say gift. Maybe we all got that except you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to do a tree from a reputable charity. Ours was legos, hats/gloves, science kits and dinosaur stuff. Reputable charities will review requests and specifically state how much you should spend on a child. Ours was $75-100

NP. The one I do is reputable, it’s a major county based organization. Still, the wants are very expensive. I do think kids just want those special dream gifts that their peers have. Also, often even poor kids have technology and video games.

Maybe an employee filled out a few wishlists for themselves and added expensive items

[Anonymous]

I live in NYC and looked into an organization that administers these requests this year. The requests were literally all for gift cards “so that XYZ can pick out something for themselves.” I totally understand the sentiment, especially for older kids, but I wanted to actually buy gifts. I did Toys for Tots instead.