My last two posts have been about Reality entering our home without knocking and the realization how lucky we are that Jeff did not lose his job. This reality check made us both think of all the people who ARE out of a job, and the emotions and fears and hardships to families that come hand in hand with unemployment. It must be a horrendous feeling not to be able to provide for your family. Nevermind Christmas, weekly grocery shopping, medical bills, gas for the car -- all of these that many of us take for granted must be a trying time for folks who have lost their jobs.
Unemployment is no longer about those who are too lazy to work. Unemployment is now about being gainfully employed and having the job pulled out from under you without notice.
So I am putting out a challenge to all my Internet friends who are gainfully employed and able to put food on their table and gas in their cars. I challenge you to donate $25 to your closest food pantry. If you don't know where that is, simply google your town/city and the words "food pantry" and you'll find one.
After our recent scare, Jeff and I talked about what it felt like to face financial hardship, and how many others are going through what we were threatened with. Our reality didn't change, but our thoughts on other folks going through all this did. So we have agreed to make a serious effort to help others.
Think of the $4 cups of coffee you buy on a whim or the extra groceries you buy to simply stock your pantry, or the unnecessary trips in the car you take. $25.00 gets eaten up quickly by any of those.
So I challenge you to write a check today, and help someone else who wakes up every morning ready to go to work but not having a job to go to, wondering how they are going to live on unemployment and still maintain a family life. $25.00 sifts through our fingers without our even noticing -- but it could mean several meals to a family that is suffering during these tough economic times.
Nov 12, 2009
I Challenge You...
My last two posts have been about Reality entering our home without knocking and the realization how lucky we are that Jeff did not lose his job. This reality check made us both think of all the people who ARE out of a job, and the emotions and fears and hardships to families that come hand in hand with unemployment. It must be a horrendous feeling not to be able to provide for your family. Nevermind Christmas, weekly grocery shopping, medical bills, gas for the car -- all of these that many of us take for granted must be a trying time for folks who have lost their jobs.
Unemployment is no longer about those who are too lazy to work. Unemployment is now about being gainfully employed and having the job pulled out from under you without notice.
So I am putting out a challenge to all my Internet friends who are gainfully employed and able to put food on their table and gas in their cars. I challenge you to donate $25 to your closest food pantry. If you don't know where that is, simply google your town/city and the words "food pantry" and you'll find one.
After our recent scare, Jeff and I talked about what it felt like to face financial hardship, and how many others are going through what we were threatened with. Our reality didn't change, but our thoughts on other folks going through all this did. So we have agreed to make a serious effort to help others.
Think of the $4 cups of coffee you buy on a whim or the extra groceries you buy to simply stock your pantry, or the unnecessary trips in the car you take. $25.00 gets eaten up quickly by any of those.
So I challenge you to write a check today, and help someone else who wakes up every morning ready to go to work but not having a job to go to, wondering how they are going to live on unemployment and still maintain a family life. $25.00 sifts through our fingers without our even noticing -- but it could mean several meals to a family that is suffering during these tough economic times.
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We donate several times a year when they have food drives and the Christmas hampers etc.
It's funny....we were just talking about this in our office after I read that our local food pantry had over 700 families request Thanksgiving dinners. We all decided to donate the Grocery Store gift cards that are being given to us as a gift from our company. One step in the right direction.
After all the headlines about charities squandering money, here's what I do: I call the food pantry, check their website or listen on the news and find out what they're running low on, hit the grocery and fill up the back of the station wagon with non-perishable type foods (peanut butter, tuna, pasta, canned veggies, etc) and run the donation down to the food pantry. Unless someone is stealing from the stock, I have confidence that my donation is going to needy people, not greedy administrators!
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