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Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 19:40
Replies: 49
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Re: Why we give?

Yes Cashy, I can guess. I am sure there are many folk out there who would trade good health for every penny they possess. It is something that we fail to truly value until we no longer have it.
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 14:42
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

Less, I hadn't seen this when I posted my comment which is along similar lines.
We aren't only on the same page of the hymn book...we are in the same church too:D:D.
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 13:50
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

When you donate cash...especially to the big charities.....you really do not know how much of what you give actually gets to the people who really need the help....how much of your donation goes to...
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 13:42
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

Because you give what you can, when you can.....someone is benefitting.
We all choose those charities which we deem deserving as a result of life experiences.
We should never forget that one day we...
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 13:11
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

That saying isn't true......health is first every time. If you do not have your health then all else is miserable.
Ask anyone who has a chronic health issue and I think they will agree.
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-03-2014, 12:31
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

You may have a point there son...but it is far more deliberate to give when you have little to give.
If you have much and donate some of it to good causes, or helping family and friends than of...
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-03-2014, 18:26
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

I also try to use local charities, but I also try to spread my donations around a bit.
I buy most of my designer clothes from BHF.......and donate them back when I am fed up of them.....books too, I...
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-03-2014, 14:19
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

Yes, and that is why I buy nothing from Oxfam.
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2014, 20:57
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

No, money will not make you happy....it just buys you a better class of misery.
Happiness is a very personal thing. Obviously you need to have some money, there is no happiness if you cannot pay...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2014, 13:03
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

I didn't realise that there were that many of them killed along the main drag in Accy:)...still you live and lear...well, most of us do!
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2014, 12:20
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

I can undertsand that too Less. If I lived alone I would starve.
I cook for others(himself, the tinlids,Ma...Nicola, Jim next door) much more that I would ever do for myself.

I think that fit...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2014, 12:17
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

Sunflower, that is a big problem...but it maybe because their mother/grandmother never showed them how to do these things.
We cannot blame them for not knowing how to do these things...except I was...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-03-2014, 10:28
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

I think you are right. Although I think it might have been easier to be poor back then......there wasn't the same peer pressure. We were all in the same boat.
It certainly taught me a lot of...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-03-2014, 09:34
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

In a perfect world, there would be no need of charity...but the world is not perfect and there are people who are greedy, there are people who are lazy....but I think that those who do stuff for...
Forum: Questions and Answers 07-03-2014, 07:23
Replies: 49
Views: 1,447
Re: Why we give?

We all have our own motives for giving.
Mine is having poverty in my past. I am not talking about the poverty of today.
I am talking about having nothing in the house to eat......being cold,...
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