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"
sherri
- 22nd Nov 2011 11:56am
That 'guilt factor' is what they count on! - You feel bad if you don't respond....and so you, as a generous charitable person duly send in a donation.
And I used to be the same. I now realise that there are more worthy causes than I would ever be able to support, and so I now won't support any organisation that engages in dubious practices no matter how much the cause tugs at my heart.
In fact I think that if I DO respond I am only enouraging them to continue to send out raffle tickets or cards that I have not ordered and do not want. - and if enough people don't send a donation back, then they will soon figure out that it is costing them more money than they are making and will stop.
In the same way, I have started telling cold callers that I will NO LONGER support their organisation in any way because they have rung me today. (on the rare occasions that I now answer the phone) If enough people do that, charities will soon work out that it is cheaper NOT to invade people's privacy with unwanted begging calls.
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