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Add to that the charities I have given to in the past that then put me on the database and send regular begging letters that in the long term cost more than the original donation.
OMG now you've really got me started. Only yesterday there was a girl outside Aldi, collecting money for Children with Terminal Illnesses. I had donated to her cause just 3 days before outside another supermarket in another suburb .. why did I feel guilty when I walked past? Chances are she's being paid to sit there with her tin ... that's what irks me, my money is only going to pay her wages.
I have raised $1,000's over the years doing the Pink Ribbon Girls Night In (my mum died of breast cancer so very close to my heart) ... a couple of years ago I was 'accosted' by this woman from Cancer Council as I got off the train:
'Hello, that's a lovely top you're wearing!"
'Thank you'
'Do you have a job?'
'No' (like, what business is it of yours?)
'Does your husband work?'
'Yes' (Of course he bloody does, someone has to pay for this retail therapy I'm just about to embark on
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'Oh good .. then would you like to contribute to cancer research by giving me your credit card details so we can deduct $49 a month?'
"Errrr ... NO. Why would I do that? I've raised about $6,000 for breast cancer over the last few years already'
'Oh yes but THIS money would go DIRECTLY to cancer research'
'Right .. so where would the money I raised have gone then?'
She then gets all flustered - 'Oh, oh, I'm not saying that it isn't used for research, it's just that the MONTHLY DEBIT money goes STRAIGHT to cancer research!'
'Yeah whatever, no idea what you're talking about, but you're not getting a penny out of me'
I was so mad I wrote to the Cancer Council and complained ... and have not done the Pink Ribbon fund raising since. Pink RIbbon is a brand.... refuse to buy products full of chemicals that contribute to cancer that display the pink ribbon symbol on them ... something else I read said the money goes to the drug companies for research into more drugs!!!
What, those rich, greedy drug companies who have lots of money already, we are paying for them to TEST THEIR OWN DRUGS?
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