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1 posted on 10/01/2025 8:12:40 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Kevin in California

There are a few places that ask to round up for some charity.

The only place I round up is when I shop at the local charity thrift store where I know where the money goes.


2 posted on 10/01/2025 8:14:31 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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To: Kevin in California

Do they say the round up is going to a charity?


3 posted on 10/01/2025 8:17:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Kevin in California

Yes


4 posted on 10/01/2025 8:19:09 PM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Kevin in California

Don’t be casual with the pinpad - I donated 5 bucks last week because I hit the key next to the key I wanted by accident...


5 posted on 10/01/2025 8:23:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Kevin in California

You’re right about zero accountability

They give it to some NGO/Charity where the CEO probably makes $750K per year and they all are woke.


6 posted on 10/01/2025 8:34:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kevin in California

No, I don’t. I have an investment account linked to my debit card so when I use it, it rounds up into my investment account. Charity begins at home. ;)


7 posted on 10/01/2025 8:36:17 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Kevin in California

No.


8 posted on 10/01/2025 8:38:10 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Kevin in California

My bank has that feature on my debit card. What it does is it puts the remainder in your savings account.

This sounds much different though. I’ve never seen that and I use the McDonalds app often for work breakfast.


9 posted on 10/01/2025 8:51:40 PM PDT by FLNittany
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To: Kevin in California

A few years ago, I paid for something at a Dollar General store in Alamogordo, NM. The clerk asked me to round up. I asked what it was for. The clerk said, “To help kids to learn to read.” I said, “I thought that was what taxpayers pay teachers to do with their property taxes funding schools.”


10 posted on 10/01/2025 8:56:28 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Kevin in California

At a guess, I would say the money goes to the Ronald McDonald House. One of the few corproate charities that actually does what they say it will do.


11 posted on 10/01/2025 8:57:19 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: Kevin in California

My guess would be that it is a donation to Ronald McDonald House. In the old days they had buckets including at the drive thru where you could drop your change. Now with everyone using cards, this is the way they do it.

https://rmhc.org/ways-to-give/give-at-mcdonalds


12 posted on 10/01/2025 9:07:19 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: Kevin in California

Round Up is for weeds and brush.


15 posted on 10/01/2025 9:11:08 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Kevin in California

Was some computer genius a few years back. Took advantage of bank computer calculations which would round its numbers to nearest penny...but the real number had a value slightly more, or less more than just up to the penny. He programmed the banks computer to send the very small excess amount to his personal account. IIRC he had accumulated millions of dollars before he was discovered.

Maybe mcDonalds takes our round up pennies and sends them to Antifa, or other organized fraud charities?

Selling crappy burgers is bad enough. Now they want charity?


16 posted on 10/01/2025 9:17:48 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Kevin in California

Did you or a loved one spray or was sprayed with Roundup?
Bayer has already agreed to have to pay $11 billion
in personal injuries settlements and trial verdicts
amid claims that their flagship herbicide product
Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.


17 posted on 10/01/2025 9:19:48 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Kevin in California

No Office Space meme of Michael Bolton yet?


20 posted on 10/01/2025 9:43:42 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Kevin in California

Presumably this would be for the Ronald McDonald houses that take in parents of children with extended stays in hospitals so they can stay near their children. In general I’m _extremely_ skeptical of corporate “charity” these days, but the Ronald McDonald houses are an absolute blessing for poor and middle-class parents dealing with financial stress at the same time they are coping with children with cancer or in an ICU after a terrible traffic accident, etc. I’ve had personal experience with the one in Indy on that basis and so I’d give this a rare 2-thumbs up.


24 posted on 10/02/2025 12:58:21 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Kevin in California

For all the charity that I give on April 15th, I have yet to get a thank you...so why should I give even more?


25 posted on 10/02/2025 1:13:50 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Kevin in California

If it’s the USO I always do. The USO was there for me when I needed them.


26 posted on 10/02/2025 1:24:55 AM PDT by onona
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To: Kevin in California

Only on my kolaches.


28 posted on 10/02/2025 2:25:07 AM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: Kevin in California

Never! I doubt their veracity. Additionally, I prefer to give to charities of my choosing. Usually the businesses that ask me to “round up” are woke.


29 posted on 10/02/2025 2:34:40 AM PDT by Jemian (It is great to be an Auburn Tiger! War Eagle!)
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