"I just loved the bell ringers and brass bands."
Posted on 12/30/2024 11:32:18 AM PST by Morgana
Salvation Army Angel Tree Drama: These People Are Not Grateful In today’s video we’ll be discussing how some parents are not grateful for the gift given to their kids for Christmas by Salvation Army Angel tree
FReepers youtube and tic tok is blowing up over this. Some who received items from the Salvation Army's Angel Tree were quite ungrateful and posted about it. They have since deleted their video over bad comments but everyone saved them. People are upset, as they should be over this. Now not all were going on tic tok and saying their "Christmas was ruined" but enough has done this to have hundreds of videos made.
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What’s wrong with veterinarians ?
I LOVE your website of memorials! To think that your friend/relative would balk at naming a child Freelove. I actually kind of like it.
Your site is such a good idea. If I can recall the few website design classes I took before retiring in ‘08, I might give it a try myself.
I believe that God brings certain people together for special purposes, whether long-term or fleeting. This fellow bell-ringing, and fellow quilting, friend was there for me when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had been through it herself, and she and her sister were my sherpas guiding me through the ordeal.
On 9/11, another close friend died ... well ... “suddenly”. I believe she was a vax victim.
Oh, well ... enough.
“I stopped donating to Salvation Army when they went lib.”
I don’t know what they’re like where you are, but around these parts they are the only organization getting drunks and addicts off the street, and feeding those who aren’t ready to come in.
I have great respect for them.
Remembering them is never enough. Each thought is a gift we give them and sharing people we love is a gift to others. Each human being that we love is a self-contained bundle of so many good traits. I’m assuming that we have enough sense to stay away from the people who would bring us down. So we are blessed with the people while they live and then with the memories when they’re gone.
I’ve had two friends with breast cancer. That was two too many for them. Both made it thru with good, full lives and are still with us. Ronnie, my college roommate, was from a Jewish family that celebrated Christmas. She was going to marry an Orthodox boy so we knew it would be her last Hanukkah Bush so she stayed at our place and slept under the Christmas tree. Which is how we learned she was allergic to pine trees. So when she was being treated for breast cancer, they knew to watch her closely during chemo and, sure enough, it was in one of the medications and was caught because of that Christmas night.
Always good memories among the bad.
O Christmas Tree (Harry Potter, Bones, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, NCIS LA, Smallville, JAG, NCIS) - Tom Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepLsxi6jQo
Good to know that locals still do good.
“however, almost all national animal funds are very wasteful.”
Stick with your local shelter.
I will not donate to Salvation Army ever again. They have been my goto charity for decades, but I recently called them to pick up 3 serviceable recliners plus several other serviceable pieces of furniture, and they were so picky about the condition of the fabric I told them to leave.
I agree
my little community has only one animal control officer
I prefer to take pet food to her because she is boots on the ground, knows which shelters/rescue would appreciate it the most
They're worthless too. From the local feline rescues to the local Humane society..........
A mama cat and her four kittens showed up on my deck this past summer. So I fed them and gave them some shelter as they grew, while at the same time calling every feline rescue agency within 50 miles of my house.
Not a one would take them in, claiming they were all filled up.
I called the local Humane Society and they gave me the same bull shit. So one day I drove over to the HS and showed the director pictures of the kittens and she said that she would take them in if I first had them tested for FIV....(Oh really? Why now? Because they're cute?)
The HS has a vet clinic on site but the director said they wouldn't do the tests.
So I took them to a walk in clinic, had them tested at a cost of $50 per kitten, then called up the director to make an appointment to bring them in, as she had instructed me previously. Sorry, she's out of the office till next Tuesday.
So next Tuesday arrives, I call her up and she tells me to bring the kittens in on Thursday, at another cost of $50 for all the kittens..........
Nothing but a frickin' run around from not only the local feline rescues, but worse, the local Humane Society.....
And don't get me started on the bullshit "Trap, Neuter and Release" program all these rescue agencies recommend for feral cats.
Here's how it works in my area: Trap the cat, call up the Humane Society and make an appointment to bring the cat in, usually in a couple of days. (Right, I'm going to keep the poor cat in the trap for two or three days until I can make the appointment. Ain't gonna happen.)
So here's what really ticks me off, it's the vet clinic at the Humane Society that is going to neuter the cats, the same damn clinic that wouldn't test my kittens for the required FIV tests prior to the HS taking them in......
That TNR process is terrible. We did TNR on 5 feral cats when we moved to TN.
There’s a non-profit private group, Planned Pethood, that provides spay/neuter and basic shots for very little money. They do take appointments for pets, but they put strays ahead of the line.
Trap the cat/kitten on Sunday-Thursday. Keep in the cage overnight with no food or water. Take the cat to PP first thing in the morning for the procedure. Pick up in the afternoon. I think the cost is $25, but we gave them a large donation instead.
We released all of them, but decided to bring them all inside after a couple months.
"I just loved the bell ringers and brass bands."
Clapping enthusiastically.
I only donate something “in person”. And for those beggars at the traffic lights, I hand them a “help wanted” ad.
My wife prepared bags of food and water to hand out to the beggars.
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I stopped donating to the Salvation Army after their International Social Justice Commission came out with their “Let’s Talk About Racism” pamphlet that admonished whites to feel guilty for being white.
I recognize the actor, of course, but not the clip it’s from. Mostly I know Rowan Atkinson from Blackadder. That was a favorite of mine decades ago. Never watched Mr Bean, which I believe he was also in.
Groups that do incredibly stupid things like that are responsible for their own self-destruction. It’s not just the economy reducing what people give them. It’s that they purposely alienate a majority of people while virtue signalling how much better they are than anyone else. Makes it very hard to want to hand them more than 2 cents, but you know the bellringer electronic button pushers are probably being paid to stand there and aren’t responsible for the policies of the organization, so better to save the 2 cents and not insult the wrong people.
According to you, their priorities are out of order.
I was at the Salvation Army the other day. I was shocked! Their prices were so high, I might as well purchase something New!
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