[Rakkasan1]

this will be as popular with kids as giving them a card that reads "In lieu of gift-giving this year, we decided to donate to XYZ charity in your name."

[Rodney King]

LOL. I remember when all the kids were starving in Ethiopia. My parents said that they were giving 10K to charity and that therefore we would be getting only a small amount for Christmas. I thought they were joking.

[Sonny M]

this will be as popular with kids as giving them a card that reads "In lieu of gift-giving this year, we decided to donate to XYZ charity in your name."

Don't laugh.

I got several gifts like that recently.

And they were donations to organizations I don't even like.

FWIT: I got one of those as a kid, and to make sure it never happened again, formed me own "Help a homeboy" out fund for myself saying "we be taking donations, no need to spare for somebody else".

Granted I was in grade school, but it worked.

[Sonny M]

I should also note, when I was a kid, I would have had no problem with this.

Then again, I was a greedy little SOB who just wanted more money and tried to charge my parents interest if they borrowed a buck.

I also wanted to charge them surcharges for making change.