First thing a liberal does is hire staff, an office, computers, supplies on taxpayers dime, then do the things they’re supposed to on the ten percent of funds that are left.
Just the gas alone to go get crayons from one location would cost more than a whole box.
Is this one of those made-up stories that get planted in the news to see who falls for it?
I bet democrats want to start a new government program for this, though.
Human interest story with no real-world relevance.
Hey - everybody has to have a cause - how else can one feel superior to his - or her - fellow man........
I was thinking of going door to door to get people’s Keurig cups to do something with them, you know, for the poor. How about using hot glue and making them into platform shoes for the poor?
yes cheaper to buy crayons new, but there is likely other things going on behind the scenes at this “non profit” org that benefits the fonder and others. plus it gets tax exempt status and maybe grants etc.
I visited the Crayola factory in Winfield, Kansas./
They melted all the rejects into one batch = Raw Umber.
Those crayons suck. Give me the real McCoy, Crayola.
She wants to be seen as a benign, female Robin Hood.
Harvesting the waste products from
‘money-mad’
capitalists, and giving them back to the community, free of charge! Spreading the wealth, as it were.
“Look @ Me, I’m the Queen of Crayons!”
Hope she has a lot of Febreeze available in her apartment after melting all that dyed wax. Volunteers may even get ‘Wax-Lung’ if it existed.
It’s not about the crayons, it’s about the virtue signaling and the need to get kudos from her fellow leftists.
“Look at me, I’m helping the poor children.”
Her donations no doubt wax and wane.
It’s about the *feelings* not the crayons. A bizarre world-view I can’t relate to, but some people will squander vast resources out of a desire to deify themselves in their own mind.
who needs 64 colors ?
save way mucho dinero by buying box of 8 from dollar store @ 68 cents per box.
I think she is confusing “being busy” with “getting something done.” She’d get further ahead faster and be more efficient if she simply bought new crayons and gave them away.
It's all about 'saving the world' (from billions and billions of perfectly good crayons clogging our landfills).
> gives them to people who can’t afford them.
[after writing this, it doesn’t sound like I meant it to. I would sincerely thank, and encourage her (and offer help if she wanted to expand her activities). And if she and a few people are happy with what she’s doing I wouldn’t criticize her though that’s it sounds like below. The world need more people like her.]
People who can’t afford crayons have more serious needs she could address with 45 hrs/week and thousands of dollars. My wife and I volunteer with homeless organizations and I don’t remember anyone ever saying “I wish my kid had a crayon”.
Reminds me of when “random acts of kindness” were the hot thing. Coworkers would brag daily about things like opening a door for someone or holding an elevator or complementing a stranger’s outfit/kids/whatever. They felt good about themselves but I always thought the “receiver” probably didn’t notice anything special and I considered these “normal acts of being a human”.
I did tell a few of these “randomly kind” people if they wanted to help the world rather than just feel good about themselves, they should practice “directed acts of kindness”. Find someone who needs help (i.e. direction for your acts) then help them even if/when it’s not convenient for you. None of them ever managed to find a Saturday night free to go serve dinner to the homeless though some did chip in a few dollars to buy larger items people need that the organizations we work with can’t pay for (e.g. car seats - people can have a car and kids but no home or car seats).
I’d guess this woman saw “unwanted crayons” and found a solution for them . As opposed to finding a need poor/homeless people had and finding a solution for that.