Charities & Causes

Door to Door Chariety

Charities & Causes

Posted by: Tricia

13th Feb 2012 05:50pm

In a age were we all financially have to be discerning about how we spend our money. I like to choose how I will donate and to whom. I find it extremely annoying to have peaple knock at the door try to get you to donate or take a book.of raffle tickets,then when you politely tell them no you have your own charities you deal with they get rude and pushy.

Comments 3

LastTimeLord
  • 24th Feb 2012 09:58am

Tricia, have you seen the current stories on the commercial aspects of charity donations? If you decide to use periodic payments to a charity, the majority of your money donated in the first year goes to the company collecting on behalf of the charity and not to the charity itself. Perhaps you have encountered the financial motive in collecting for charities?

krissy
  • 23rd Feb 2012 10:19am

i always donate to cancer , heart ,and animal donations i donate becouse my mum had breast cancer at a young age and my sister had a problem with her heart at the age of 18

Lilibet
  • 19th Feb 2012 07:00pm

I have been a volunteer for charity, knocking on doors to get donations. We are all told to smile and say thankyou when someone cannot or will not give a donation. What I do find funny are those people who hide when you knock on their door and whose children can be clearly heard asking adults who's there?
I agree that we all have the right to choose to whom we give our donations, and in this day when there is so little cash left after our own essentials have been dealt with, then we should be able to say no without having the volunteer collectors getting stroppy with us. The line 'we have our own ...' seems to be used more and more and is regularly used just to get rid of the collector in the same way as trying to get rid of religious callers

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