"Jude" > wrote in message
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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> "Jude" > wrote in message
>
>> >> Their cookies suck, so I usually tell them that for health reasons, I
>> >> can't
>> >> eat sweets, and I offer to just donate $10.00 to their troop they're
>> >> not
>> >> Nazi assholes like the BSA. But, the parents are usually thrown for a
>> >> loop
>> >> when they have to figure out how to account for a donation without a
>> >> cookie
>> >> sale.
>> >
>> > Have you considered asking them to donate your paid-for boxes to a
>> > local charity or foodbank?
>> >
>>
>> No. Cookies are not food. And, being poor is depressing enough. If I
>> needed
>> to get food from a food bank, I would not want to feel like I was getting
>> peoples' throwaways. GS cookies are definitely in that category. If I
>> wanted
>> to donate cookies, I'd just go shopping and buy some serious ones that
>> wouldn't insult the recipients.
>>
>> My lottery dream: Hire a tractor trailer, and arrange to go "shopping" at
>> the warehouse of a local grocery chain. Fill the truck to the limit. Have
>> the back of the truck rigged with video cameras, and driven to our local
>> food bank. Insist that the head honcho sign for the contents, and that
>> he/she be handed a little note: "Hope this helps. Love, Spongebob". Tell
>> the
>> truck driver that he gets $1000.00 when he brings me the videotape, so I
>> can
>> see the big smile (anonymously, of course).
>>
>> Next month, do it again, but this time, have it delivered by something
>> like
>> this, just for fun:
>> http://www.constructionhelicopter.com/flight.htm
>>
>> I'd be broke in a year, but what the heck.
>
>
> Good ream.
>
> However, I believe that food is food. Some folks with kids, who can't
> afford to buy a single box of Thin Mints, would be THRILLED to get some
> in their food box. When I was poor enough to frequent a California food
> bank for a few months, I was not choosey. We happily consumed a box of
> graham crackers smeared with betty crocker tub frosting for dessert -
> hell, we were hungry and we not only were begin fed, we were being
> ginve dessert!
>
> Poor folks really like a treat now and then, and they ain't snobby. I
> don't think you'd find a lot of people who were insulted by your choice
> to offer them cookies rather than a big fat nothing.
>

Well, I haven't won the lottery yet. So, when I contribute to the food bank,
it's usually stuff like Campbell's chunky soups - something you can actually
make a lunch or dinner out of.