Giving to too many charities at once
Posted by: frilly
29th Jan 2010 02:28pm
They seem to want more and more each year they say their costs are going up but so are mine and we are on fixed incomes. I am disabled and we are on a pension.
This seems to have no affect when told to them perhaps I should jump on their list LOL. Certain charities help pay outstanding fines etc that people "find they are unable to pay" This is so wrong they should never be given money.
Vouchers or coupons. We see so many TV reports showing how young people and perhaps not so young blatantly tell their stories about how they can live up in Byron Bay on the "Dole"
How can they do this when we have to list every source of income we have and our pension goes up and down even weekly in tune with our assets. The fact that these assets we cannot cash in as the interest from them supply the remainder of our pension.
We thought we had totally covered ourselves for our retirement until the market crashed.
That was the biggest shock of all to find so much money had just disappeared. Now we have to keep Centrelink informed of every change in our financial situation. How do these others manage to get money so easily
One more thing, I said I was disable, it means lots of Drs and hospital visits. We can almost guarantee that after a hospital visit we will receive a request for a Charity at that hospital. Charities are exempt from the "Blocking of unwanted calls"
vanillaslice
- 17th May 2010 11:33am
Hi all! Haven't participated here although I've been member for some time. A long time ago we sat down and decided how much and to which charities we should donate. We also decided to increase this by 5% each year. That allows for increases in our income and inflation. We have seen no reason to change this over the years. Any other request for donations goes into the recycling bin, any phone request is answered by a polite refusal.
We cannot solve all the worlds problems, only do what seems responsible.
Included in our way of doing it are the local charity/club/school/readathons/sponsorship of kids etc. We just keep a note of those and if the set amount is not reached at the end of the year we give a little extra to the next tins that come around.
The only exception we make is for certain calls for disaster aid. For that we sometimes need to forego our own extras.
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