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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see this every year at the Salvation Army Angel Tree Distribution.  There I am with my family looking hot and disheveled, dragging out bags of new selected gifts and bicycles to mom who have been to the beauty salon that morning, have decorated fingernails two inches long, makeup, tight new clothes, boots, new purses and better iphones than I use.  In fact they don't even put down the phone to bother to thank us - the donors to the salvation army - nor do they even respond when I wish them a "Merry Christmas".  Most, if they check their backs, complain that the microwaved they asked for it is not in there.  I'm done with the attitude of entitlement.  ANd yes all of these moms are perfectly capable of working from what I can observe.[/quote]

This is why I stopped contributing to charities in this area. Most of those toys and gifts are re-sold for things the mothers want because the children receive so much through other sources.   Through the Salvation Army I found  other charities in less affluent areas where the gifts stay with the children.  I am also involved with a local charity which allows me to earmark donations for things like medicine rather than rent or food.  Recipients charity shop and know how to get food first, then payment of utility bills, followed by rent, school supplies and weekend food backpacks and last medicine. I earmark the money for medicine because the pharmacies are paid directly   Donations are also more likely to go to people who are not covered by government or charity programs.

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I'm the PP. Yes, I stopped with the angel tree gifts after that experience 20 years ago. (I started giving to local homeless shelters instead, and now I also like to give to veterans' organizations.) But what you say about the mothers selling their kids' gifts for their own wants  (since the kids already get from multiple sources) is infuriating. Call me naive, but it never occurred to me the recipients of charity gifts scammed people like that. 
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NP but society has moved on from a point where kids need toys or gifts.Those things are so cheap and plentiful now, whereas housing and daycare are the main things that families can't afford. Which is mostly why we don't donate to the angel trees. And I'm sure that so many of these moms CAN work, but they can't make enough to afford daycare, so why bother. [/quote]

This has been a very interesting post for me.  I'm the Salvation Army Angel Tree worker and my older children also participate.  What I'm hearing you say is that all those nice brand-new goodies we hand select to fit the needs of a particular family are fenced for drugs?  Wow.  The S/A works so hard with these families (mostly single female) to try and get them everything they they have listed on their Santa's wish, and some include some pretty pricey items.  Then S/A works for four consecutive days and nights make up each family's name - mark it with the family name and then indicate if a bicycle (adjacent room) would be included.  Everything is brand new.  I saw copper cookware, microwaves, knife sets, big screen TVS, and 100s of bicycles.  When the "client's" no. is call" we volunteers run to find the bag and my kids run off to see if there are new bicycles that go with the big bag of loot.  It never occurred to me that they would take these items with them and immediately sell them.  Maybe that's why the moms never brought their children with them.  And they did get snitty if a microwave was missing from a bag.  I would have to go get a Salvation Army officer to come and explain that ever bag has a limit/cap and that some of the bags had to be adjusted depending upon the families' financial needs.  By the second hour I had stopped say "Happy Holidays" because I was getting just hostililty and no thanks.  Moms couldn't be bothered to look up from their fancy phones to even than the Army for the $500 worth of gifts, all the while dressed better than me, better groomed, better purse, outrageous two-inch long fingernails.  One of them asked me (a dumpy over 60 woman) if I could carry the big plastic bag to her car because she didn't want to break a nail.  That was it. No more S/A work for me, but I will send them money.[/quote]

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