Helping The Needy at Christmas — At No Cost
There are several strategies you can use at Christmas benefit the needy around the world. Check out these suggestions.
CHRISTMAS CHANGE. If you haven’t started emptying your pockets each day into a change jar, Christmas is a perfect time. Set it aside not for a personal extravagance or to pay bills, but for donations. Either you’re already giving a lot of money by attending chili dinners and buying raffle tickets or making outright cash donations (in which case you can set aside change for such things painlessly in this way) or you are not doing any of that and it’s about time you start Cash in around Christmas, although you can do it at any time during the year if you wish. Make it a game. You can even start several jars. One for something you really need for yourself, one for Christmas giving, and one for everyday giving. Just for kicks, stick a dollar bill in a book on your bookshelf every once in awhile and forget about it until it’s time to make your donations. Good for your karma. Incidentally, don’t overlook the Christmas Club account as a way of getting the cash out of your reach. This is also where you can dump your Chirstmas change jar accumulation every month or so.
FREE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY. A few magazines disappeared from the Nashville (IL) Public Library because of a tightening budget. I had a few online survey sites which offered items as rewards that didn’t appeal to me, but they did offer magazines. So, I have signed them up for a number of subscriptions. The librarian even has her husband saving Coke Rewards points towards magazine subscriptions. The magazine rack is overflowing and this maneuver has saved the library $200-$300 by estimation. If you have some points you’ve built up with one or two survey sites, go ahead and offer the library a welcome Christmas present…a free magazine subscription. Or two. Or five.
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