What are you doing to spread some joy this Christmas/Holiday season

[jaxs]

Regarding kids these days.

They are rude, uncontrollably, uneducated, spoiled brats, lazy and basically worthless.

Julius Ceaser said that.

Some things don't change.

Actually,some kids do grow up and change but as can be seen by many posts here every day,some never grow up nor change.
Names withheld to protect,,,,,,,,,,,us from their tantrums over being called out.

 

[Jstpssng]

Regarding kids these days.

They are rude, uncontrollably, uneducated, spoiled brats, lazy and basically worthless.

Julius Ceaser said that.

Some things don't change.

:thumbsup:

 

[user.69169]

Dat Caesar guy got nobody to blame but himself. He de one gave de kids slave pulled carts to haul dem to and from school. Den he wonders why kids lazy.

Not long after he went off on lazy kids he complained about knife being cold and how he sure it gonna leave a mark.
Pickey, pickey pickey.

 

[Alan W.]

Our church does food baskets for needy families. My wife and I usually gather the supplies and box them up.
My chickens live in better quarters than some of these people do. Unfortunately in a lot of the cases its drug use that is the problem. You have to be careful what you give or it will be sold for a fix.
We gave out for Thanksgiving and are getting ready to deliver the Christmas ones.

On the giving of tips. I went with a friend to get some steel and I bought lunch because he drove. He was going to get the tip but only had 20s. When the waitress came by he asked her if she could break it for him.
I told him if she was smart she would bring him back two 10s. She didnt but he gave her 10 anyway.

 

[ruffdog]

I'm staying home alone for Christmas, That'll make a lot of people happy!

Ha! That made me laugh! Your party sounds like the one we are having. :cool2::drink:

 

[Streetcar]

It is great to honor your friend by giving large tip to someone working in low paying position. I work in poor section of Cincinnati it is amazing how much is donated to the homeless and is then thrown away or immediately sold.
For most of the homeless I meet, I wonder how much did they screw over people in their life that nobody will help them.

I am giving platelets. Huge need for cancer patients and donations drop during holidays. Although platelets can be obtained from whole blood for cancer they prefer straight donations as there is slight risk of complications from each different donor

 

[RSR]

It is great to honor your friend by giving large tip to someone working in low paying position. I work in poor section of Cincinnati it is amazing how much is donated to the homeless and is then thrown away or immediately sold.
For most of the homeless I meet, I wonder how much did they screw over people in their life that nobody will help them.

I am giving platelets. Huge need for cancer patients and donations drop during holidays. Although platelets can be obtained from whole blood for cancer they prefer straight donations as there is slight risk of complications from each different donor

That's a great idea! And it doesn't even cost any money to do.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Our church does food baskets for needy families. My wife and I usually gather the supplies and box them up.
My chickens live in better quarters than some of these people do. Unfortunately in a lot of the cases its drug use that is the problem. You have to be careful what you give or it will be sold for a fix.
We gave out for Thanksgiving and are getting ready to deliver the Christmas ones.

On the giving of tips. I went with a friend to get some steel and I bought lunch because he drove. He was going to get the tip but only had 20s. When the waitress came by he asked her if she could break it for him.
I told him if she was smart she would bring him back two 10s. She didnt but he gave her 10 anyway.

As I tend to travel quite a bit, I do hit my fair share of Waffle Houses in the early morning. If you want to see a woman cry, leave a 20 dollar bill for a waffle and a dollars worth of coffee.... Any person working those hours to take care of me, deserves a good tip.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

During COVID I have been leaving nice tips on takeout at a local mom and pop restaurant. Normally I don’t consider a tip for takeout, but it seems they could use a little extra. I would hate to see them close.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
I've been doing the same. I used to go up for breakfast on Sundays a lot, and leave the same tip now. In my case it goes to the help, who are suffering from shortened hours because it's takeout only.

 

[polarred21]

I always leave takeout tips and have increased the amount this year to maybe double. I ordered 100+ neck gaiter masks from Amazon and sold them at work to benefit local charity, The Christian Help Center. $385 so far.

 

[dougtrr2]

It was earlier this month, but I gave my barber $100 for my haircut. I have been tipping him extra since Covid broke out. I don't go as often and I am sure his business is down. He seemed very appreciative.

Doug in SW IA

 

[Alan W.]

Just wanted to show you how some people live that we take food boxes to.



Makes you appreciate things more. The children are growing up in pitiful conditions. Not all but most of our stops you have to wade through the garbage to get to the door.

 

[Jstpssng]

Just wanted to show you how some people live that we take food boxes to.

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Makes you appreciate things more. The children are growing up in pitiful conditions. Not all but most of our stops you have to wade through the garbage to get to the door.

It's easy to sit at a computer and criticize, thank you for doing that. I've told this before, we used to pick a family off the tree at church and buy what they had asked for. One woman wanted toilet paper... Say what you want but I can't imagine being so destitute that you need to ask for it in that manner. Between all of us she got everything on her list, and EVERYBODY in my family bought toilet paper for her that year.

 

[John_Mc]

For about a dozen years or so now, a friend and I have been processing extra firewood each year and donating it to families in need. It started with the two of us, then we added a couple more friends. For the past 6 years or so, we've expanded it to a community wide event. Over the years, I estimate we've had 75 community members contribute on one way or another: some donating fully processed and seasoned firewood, some donating the trees they had a tree service took down in their yard, some volunteering at community work days to process log into firewood, some helping with deliveries (all too often in the middle of a -10˚F cold snap or a blizzard). We've had the Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts, 6 year old kids and 80 year old grandfathers helping. A friend who is a professor at the University of Vermont brings one of her classes down on a field trip to help process firewood each fall (UVM is big on their students doing some community service).

 

[jmc]

Our regional food bank much more this year, with demand so high. They use cash contributions to buy food by the pallet. Volunteers and our National Guard are in there masked, packing boxes and loading vehicles.

Also, a new one for me- Boy's and Girl's Club. The local Charles Schwab franchisee supports this charity and will match any of his clients' support one for one thru the end of 2020. He is financially savvy so I trust his due diligence, plus he is putting his money where his mouth is.