"Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
news:0001HW.C3DDDFC600A8BE3AF0182648{at}news.verizon.net...
> >> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:40:26 -0500, Josh Hill wrote
> (in article ):
> >

>
> If you drop your used clothing and housewares at the Salvation Army Thrift
> Shop, the only way any money gets to someone who needs it is if someone
> happens to buy your items, and then the administrative costs are skimmed
off
> of the profit made by the store.  But if you take your husband's old,
worn,
> but intact and clean winter coat down to the men's shelter at the
Salvation
> Army church/offices -- sometimes down the block or across the street from
> their thrift shop -- some man who needs a coat _now_, this winter, will
get
> _that coat_.

Thanks for the heads-up - I'd been giving to the SA shop for awhile now, but
I've some stuff that I can route directly.

>
> All of us who are online here, who have computers of our own and can
afford
> internet access, are luckier than we might imagine.  We do live in the
> richest country in the world (overall wealthiest, per citizen -- not
counting
> small middle-eastern kingdoms where only billionaires and their servants
> live!), and most of us here can't even imagine life on the streets, or
having
> to suddenly leave our homes and all of our (meager) possessions.  Next
time
> you're annoyed by a lack of space in your house, wondering about all the
> "junk" you've acquired, take a look at some of that stuff
with the eyes of
a
> person in desperate poverty, and see if you don't think you might have a
> carload, or a boxload, that could be better used by people living in a
> shelter.  And find your local shelters, and take it to them.

Dennis


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