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    Today I took it upon myself to clean out my closets and drawers because I no longer have room for anymore clothing, shoes, accessories etc.
    While going through everything I became ashamed of myself - most of this crap I haven't used in at least a year and some things I have never ever even used. I am going to donate all of these items that I don't absolutely need and it got me to thinking....

    I now make enough money to cover all my bills and a whole hell of a lot more, I am taking this learning lesson and deciding to no longer purchase things I don't need... what I would've spent on silly items I would like to donate.

    Do any of you ladies donate to charities? What are some of your favorites? I want to put some of my money to good use and help others who truly need it!
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    Default Re: Using extra income to give back to others in need

    I think it's great that you actually want to donatite to charity, and not just for a tax write-off, which is why most people donate. You're a lot less selfish than me; if I had a lot of extra money I would probably just go to the mall and spend it all, lol. Anyways, I don't trust most charities, because you don't know how much of the money you donate actually goes to the people who need it. You hear about the owners of charities owning million dollar homes and what-not. I think it would be a better idea to buy a bunch of cans and food and donate them to food banks and homeless shelters. I would feel more comfortable actually giving items, rather than money, so I know it goes to the right people. If there are a lot of homeless people in your area, you can go to Burger King or McDonalds and buy a bunch of burgers and pass them out to people on the street. These are just some ideas. I hope I helped.

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    That is a great idea! I never thought of that! Definitely will do the canned food thing because I know food banks are slammed this time of year and also taking food to the homeless is a great idea as well! Maybe even purchasing some blankets to give to them. Thank you thank you, you've got the wheels in my head turning with ideas!

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    Considering we're sex workers, it would be awesome to donate to women's causes, like sex trafficking, domestic abuse shelters, breast/ovarian/uterine cancers, and endometriosis.

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    I am a member of the ASPCA and Humane Society. I also foster a couple of abandoned animals at a time, while I seek homes for them.

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    I would narrow it down a little - figure out what you are passionate about, or care about (animals, homelessness, environment, diseases, anything!) and then look into local charities and events. Most of the big, well known charities are a) getting lots more donations than smaller ones and b) spending a much larger chunk of those donations on marketing and salaries than smaller charities.

    Look for your local food bank or homeless shelter, and go ask them what they need most. This time of year its really important to give out food, warm clothes and blankets to the homeless because of the cold. Animal shelters also need extra money, food, blankets and medicine in January/Feb because of all the morons who still don't realize that pets aren't presents. Or you could find a local toy drive to give christmas gifts to impoverished children in your area.

    Personally, I would split some money off into donating to lobbyists and political groups that can take donations and use them to create longer lasting legislative changes that will help deal with the root cause of the problem. (This is if you decide to focus on something other than diseases - obviously there isn't a whole lot that lobbyists can do for cancer research)

    And personally, I will not give out food to individuals on the street (no offence sammi!! Just my perspective) - supporting food bank and soup kitchen programs is much more effective in the long run. I actually did this when I was younger (gave out food) and ran into some real issues - people yelled at me, threw the stuff away, and even once or twice threatened me. You never know who you are dealing with, and its not worth risking your safety to give a sandwich to someone who might be allergic to one of the ingredients and throw it away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sammii View Post
    I think it's great that you actually want to donatite to charity, and not just for a tax write-off, which is why most people donate. You're a lot less selfish than me; if I had a lot of extra money I would probably just go to the mall and spend it all, lol. Anyways, I don't trust most charities, because you don't know how much of the money you donate actually goes to the people who need it. You hear about the owners of charities owning million dollar homes and what-not. I think it would be a better idea to buy a bunch of cans and food and donate them to food banks and homeless shelters. I would feel more comfortable actually giving items, rather than money, so I know it goes to the right people. If there are a lot of homeless people in your area, you can go to Burger King or McDonalds and buy a bunch of burgers and pass them out to people on the street. These are just some ideas. I hope I helped.
    I agree with this so much. It's better to give to the local charities too, such as the food banks as I have heard those run low on things often.

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    How much money do you have in a retirement account/ROTH IRA for yourself in twenty, thirty or forty years? Do you have insurance, in case you get hurt and can't cover your expenses? What does your emergency fund look like, these days? Do you have two months expenses, covered and in the bank? More? Less?

    Donate things but not money. Chances are you have much more stuff than you need that could go to help others but working towards accumulating your own wealth is much more prudent than trying to be arbitrarily benevolent. Cover your own bases, first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vivianbear View Post
    How much money do you have in a retirement account/ROTH IRA for yourself in twenty, thirty or forty years? Do you have insurance, in case you get hurt and can't cover your expenses? What does your emergency fund look like, these days? Do you have two months expenses, covered and in the bank? More? Less?

    Donate things but not money. Chances are you have much more stuff than you need that could go to help others but working towards accumulating your own wealth is much more prudent than trying to be arbitrarily benevolent. Cover your own bases, first.
    I don't want to give away how much I am making per month but it is much more than I truly need. One month of my earnings right now can easily cover a years worth of bills for me and I've got a lot of money tucked away.

    I do agree with you that I should put money away for my future which I have been doing and will continue doing! I came from a poor household and I had to do without much of my life so I really want to help others as well... so yes donating things I do not need is a great idea but a small chunk of money even $10 or $20 a month wont dent my wallet but can make a difference in someone elses life. I also am figuring out volunteer work I can do

    I figure I can easily give up going out to dinner (which me and my fiance like to do a lot) once or twice a month and that could go to feed others who are starving.

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    I don't trust a lot of charities, to be honest. Sometimes I donate small amounts. Like $20 or $30 or something. Not much, but to be honest, I'm pretty poor. Then they send me packages of mail and stupid greeting cards and pens and ask me to donate more ... like once a week! It already adds up to more than I've donated to them. Useless

    That being said, I occasionally buy some extra food at the grocery store, just a couple cans or something, and put it in the food bank. Like I said, I'm poor, but a couple extra bucks here and there is fine. I also do this "Operation Christmas Child" thing where I fill a shoebox. I have done it every year for the past few years. It only costs like $10 - $15 to fill a box. I mean, you get most stuff at the dollar store anyway. Little toys, pens, pencils, notebooks, other stuff like that. It's a lot of fun. Last year I donated two boxes. I've gotta get going on it this year because it is coming up soon. I want to find a second box ... I only have one shoebox right now!
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    please don't buy food and give it directly to homeless people. (speaking as someone who has been homeless and worked with homeless people.) i mean, if someone comes up to you and asks you for money or a sandwich, that's one thing - i've bought food for people who were hanging around a fast food joint when i was already planning to buy food for myself - but buying a lot of food and just going out and handing it out is NOT a good idea. a lot of homeless people are (rightly) wary of taking food because of the possibility of poisoning. if you want to directly donate food and items, food banks NEED nonperishable food and most women's shelters (and some homeless shelters) take personal hygiene items.

    i'd ask around and find someone in your personal networks who works for a reputable charity in a cause you support. a lot of big charities may not be all that trustworthy but you can find trustworthy charities this way.

    personally i donate when i can to my place of worship, which in turn supports a lot of community charities and other social justice work. i also give clothes that i don't wear anymore to goodwill. i volunteer at a kitchen here that serves meals no questions asked to anyone who's lonely or hungry (and have used their services in the past). i used to volunteer for a crisis hotline and am hoping to start doing it again next year. there are a lot of reputable charities and organizations i love but don't have the money to donate to, but support them with time and/or publicity.

    i also donate a lot of old clothes and stuff through freecycle. clothes especially are a big hit on freecycle - a lot of poor and working class folks use it to find clothes and household items. every time i've passed on clothes i didn't need through freecycle it made a huge difference in the life of the person who got them, and i got to meet the person face to face which was nice too

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    Quote Originally Posted by vivianbear View Post
    How much money do you have in a retirement account/ROTH IRA for yourself in twenty, thirty or forty years? Do you have insurance, in case you get hurt and can't cover your expenses? What does your emergency fund look like, these days? Do you have two months expenses, covered and in the bank? More? Less?

    Donate things but not money. Chances are you have much more stuff than you need that could go to help others but working towards accumulating your own wealth is much more prudent than trying to be arbitrarily benevolent. Cover your own bases, first.
    I totally agree regarding the need to cover our own bases, particularly in a job that doesn't come with benefits or a pension plan, but I look at my own 'social cause' spending as a matter of ethics. I was born in North America, and half of my ancestors originated in Western Europe. When I consider how inequality has been, and is currently built into my national and our international economic system, I am obligated to mediate that, as best I can according to my means. Alot of the privileges I have were not of my own doing, I was born into them due to my social and geographic locations, in a world where wealth exists in large part as a result of the economic oppression of others via means of neocolonialism and democratic racism. As well, alot of the achievements I have made were only possible because I had an opportunity to pursue them. Opportunities denied to others.
    My social cause spending isn't charity. It's support for organizations headquartered in the area in which they operate (which automatically disqualifies all 'aid' organizations based in NA and Eur working on the African continent, for example) that involve people defining and challenging their own problems, on their own terms. It's doing whatever lil bit I can to work against a fucked up system that has benefitted me at the expense of other human beings.
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    I'm just saying, work and save until you're truly wealthy. Then feel free to start a foundation and invest in social capital to change or contribute. People who are rich can afford it. And I highly doubt anyone relying on camming constitutes as rich. You can always save more money. If everyone is all saved up, I suppose we don't have to clutter up this forum with "oh nooes, camming has been slow and I can't pay my bills" threads.

    You can also buy smarter. Using coupons typically makes you purchase in quantity. You can get what you need much cheaper and donate the remainder. Buying 20 bottles of body wash, saving 85% and donating 15 bottles to a shelter is probably a better use of your resources than just handing over $50 to get lost in a beuracracy.
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    there are also ways to use your money when you're buying regular items you need that will benefit people.

    buy books through betterworldbooks.com rather than a chain bookstore or amazon.
    buy clothes from independent sellers or at least from places where you know the working conditions and circumstances of production whenever you can. i get a lot of my clothes from a co-op of women in egypt, and one woman in the us who makes and sells clothes in a style i like. i like to know i'm giving business to people and it's directly helping their livelihood and not hurting anyone.
    shop at (and become an owner of) a co-op and/or shop at local farms for food when you can afford to.

    re: giving...i agree with loveshooks. and i also give time and money wherever i can because when i'm in need there are people who have given things to me. and there are services that i've been lucky enough to have access to when i needed them. i understand the need to take care of oneself too but for me...i give sometimes even when i don't have enough saved just because i am blessed enough to have gotten help and i want other people to have access to help. but that's also a function of how i was raised and the community i come from. no one has 'enough' but people do for each other anyway because when you are in need someone does for you. that's the only way to survive in a community where most people are below the poverty line. where i live now is a much bigger city and i don't know everyone the way i do where i was born so it's not exactly the same. but it's still ingrained in me to give whatever i have when i can.

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    My brother and his friends are homeless by choice. They suck off the system so they can be lazy all day and complain about the man holding them down. These are white kids from good families and this has been going on for years and years. They dont even have real drug problems or mental illness they just have bad attitudes and feelings of entitlement.

    Charity to this amorpheous group of "poor homeless" is almost always snapped up by opportunists. Being that it is people want to feed and clothe and house them SO BAD. They have all the time in the world to start thinking of clever reasons why they must have the charity.

    Someday I hope it changes and people donating realize they are the ones fostering an attitude of helplessness.
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    most homeless people i know and have worked with desperately need the help. people who stay at extended stay homeless shelters are actually screened, so if you donate to an extended stay homeless shelter you can be certain it's going to someone who really needs it. many food banks now also require documentation (which presents a whole nother set of problems of discriminating against homeless people who can't provide documentation, but that's another coversation).

    to me the "poor homeless" are not amorphous, they are people i know and have spent time with. and the vast majority of them are not like your brother and his friends.

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    I support almost all other charities and organizations intended to promote positive change EXCEPT for any and all things homeless related. Any feeding or clothing of people who are able bodied is actually POSIONOUS to theyre recovery from laziness. I forgot to mention my aunt made up a disability almost 30 years ago and hasnt worked since then, but she'll be damned if she has to go without cable television. SOrry if this is a thread jack or sounds harsh, but this has been my experience.....every once in a while someone volunteers at a soup kitchen and gets the warm fuzzies and I feel the need to explain to them what they are actually contributing to.

    And no I don't want anyone to starve or freeze to death but you gotta draw the line somewhere
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    OK well this is in a nice community where the young people have done this for years and the residents are sick of them but the churches are keeping it going. My opinion is heavily biased by my aunt and brothers abuse of the system.
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    i try to donate a little something every year to children in need as i see kids in this country living in poverty and not having the opportunities that i have luckily had. i always buy a little pudsy something and this year i was a keyring. ok so only £1.25 went to the charity but i can garuntee that the kids will get it as i bought it from an honest retailer and i know and can see how much even a little something can help a child. it is really sad to think that once this country starts to see good growth and heading for a boom again 1 in 4 kids in the uk will be living in poverty. and that is through no fault of thier own.

    children in need is a once a year tv marathon full of songs, comedy sketches, drama and other things. all the bbc newsreaders get up and embarasess themselves (swear its part of thier contract lol!) and all the cast of eastenders go up to the bt tower and take pledge calls. all of this is done via donation. the eastenders cast donate thier time along with every other celeb or anyone in the background. every single thing is donated so no money is spent on advertising etc and the amount raised is huge it runs into the millions! and boy does sir terry wogan work for the money! (btw he doesnt take a penny to host the show and on his own radio show he does the things money cant buy auction ie lunch with kate moss etc!) during the big reccession in the early nineties he begged and pleaded with the nation to help and saying i know times are so tough but we just need a pound from you to help these kids. he broke the record then too. cin is such a worthy cause and will always donate to it.

    i want to do the shoebox for children thing too. we used to do that every year a christmas. i will take the idea to uni next for xmas and get everyone involved in doing that.

    i also support animal charities and rescue animals when i can and give food to the local german shepard charity too. the lady who runs it does so off her own back and has about fifety shepards atm. mum got her pup from there and then we got another one this summer. i want to buy a load of toys for them so they all have a little something to play with other then each other and the other animals, the pups like to chase the geese and hang off the tail til the geese hiss back and chase sid the cockral who one of these days is going to end up being a shepards dinner. this type of work really touches my heart compared to the rspca work or other big charity work as i doubt my money is going far and i know this woman would be really grateful for any donation that she received.

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    For the past several years I've made a contribution to my local humane society instead of giving Christmas gifts. My family members get cards that say I've made a donation in all our names.

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    Someday I hope it changes and people donating realize they are the ones fostering an attitude of helplessness.
    In Toronto (my city) 40% of regular food bank patrons have full time jobs. I volunteer with newly arrived immigrants who are BUSTING their asses trying to get a foothold in an expensive city with ridiculous red tape seperating them from jobs in their fields which they are qualified to fill.
    Then there's the affordable daycare issue...how easy is it to be completely self-sufficient when daycare costs per hour rival ones hourly wage?

    Or mental health survivors...have you ever read about the side effects to the medications prescribed for certain types of schizophrenia, and how difficult it is for people to live a 'normal' life under those conditions?

    On this forum, I can think of at least three women who've disclosed either present or past use of government income supports. Yet they're here, working hard, making (and paying) their own way however they can. Is this 'dependency'?

    I understand how you've been affected by your bro, BELIEVE ME, I've been there, but one anecdotal experience does not an accurate broad definition make.

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