Aside from my Thankful Thursday post, I have an annoyance I would like to share. I am all for organizations fundraising money. I understand that a lot of organizations have no other funding and they must do this, whether it is a baseball team, Vets group or girl scouts. I gladly buy girl scout cookies and don't mind buying cookie dough from baseball teams, I help them out, and they make my stomach happy.
That isn't my annoyance of course. What annoys me is when I am walking in or out of a store such as Walmart and I'm approached to donate money. I tend to feel like I'm being heckled and I feel like I jerk when I don't give anything (kind of like when cashiers ask if I want to donate $1 to help children fighting for their lives and the times that I say no... I can't donate every time!). Typically we don't carry cash so we honestly have nothing to give. I suppose it doesn't really bother me when they are selling something like candy bars or flowers or maybe say a car, but I don't like when they have 5 year olds standing there with their big brown eyes and buckets waiting for me to deposit my money just because they are cute.
I don't have any deep meaningful reason why groups shouldn't be allowed to do this, but for some reason it bothers me. Maybe I'm just a bit of a scrooge, I'm not sure.
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ReplyDeleteWe always dread it too, we are very strategic about it and go in when a large crowd goes in :P When we do give we never have much because we don't carry change, so if we do have some its usually only a few cents. Instead of looking cheap I hand it to Jocelyn and she takes it up to them. They think its cute and I'm off the hook! I'm horrible but I hate the feeling too!
ReplyDeleteI feel like it's every time we go to the store. Two days ago the lady actually yelled at us from about 30 feet away to ask us to donate lol
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