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"
frilly
- 20th Apr 2011 09:57am
Has anyone an answer to the labels we are sent at Xmas time and other special times, that are painted by people with no hands or some other disability? It is terrible that no matter what you do or try to do there is some one else finding a way of asking for money.
I have noticed now that there are Boutique Op Shops I have not seen any but I saw a program on them and they seemed to be in the more up market areas of Sydney. I apologise if I am wrong about the areas, it was Chanel 7.
These op-shops receive the end of runs from the expensive names in fashion. Boutiques and people who donate the very expensive clothes to these Charities also. They do not appear to be offered in the areas that perhaps people would really love to be able to have a chance of wearing a beautiful, normally expensive outfit but again in the malls in Sydney and Melbourne.
They are not helping you and I type of people I feel but the people who can afford better than the normal run of the mill fashion usually. I have noticed that anything nice I donated to our local op shop never appeared here.
My last comment is I saw an advert in a newspaper one day for Greenpeace. I know they do some wonderful work but they were advertising for protesters. They offered a set payment to these people to protest at the local docks. House With No Steps also pays people who collect on the streets and ring up. How many more are there. It is no wonder they are rude, maybe they receive a proportion of their earnings?
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