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7/15/2009 11:15:09 AM EDT
Just curious. I was doing some mail and using one of the many sheets of free address labels we get from various charities begging for money. Most of them are people we gave money to in the past so I have zero guilt using them. Some aren't and we've pretty much stopped charity donations since we're both unemployed.



So what do you do?
7/15/2009 11:16:36 AM EDT
[#1]
Quoted:
Just curious. I was doing some mail and using one of the many sheets of free address labels we get from various charities begging for money. Most of them are people we gave money to in the past so I have zero guilt using them. Some aren't and we've pretty much stopped charity donations since we're both unemployed.

So what do you do?


I refuse to be "guilted" into anything. I keep the dollar bills they send. I keep the address labels if I like them.
7/15/2009 11:18:28 AM EDT
[#2]
Yes, but I usually cut off whatever corporation symbols are on them.
7/15/2009 11:20:25 AM EDT
[#3]
The only ones I ever get are from my Alumni Association. I only send out about 25 pieces of mail a year, so the sheet of 200 labels lasts me for quite a while.
7/15/2009 11:21:07 AM EDT
[#4]
I take particular delight in using the free return address labels that the IU alumni association sends with their pleas for me to rejoin (which I refuse to do).
7/15/2009 12:28:41 PM EDT
[#5]
Hell yes.  Using them is better than throwing them in the trash.

FWIW I give to the charities I believe in every December (which makes keeping track of my contributions easier for me).  LOTS of others ask me for money all the time.  I never give any money in response to mail, phone or door-to-door solicitations (although my wife sometimes does).
7/15/2009 12:30:58 PM EDT
[#6]
You bet I do.  

I'm a cheap SOB.
7/15/2009 12:33:15 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
Yes, but I usually cut off whatever corporation symbols are on them.


Same here....
7/15/2009 12:50:18 PM EDT
[#8]
I contribute to the USO every year and am proud to use the address labels they send as a small thank you for my donations.

I believe they (the USO) do wonders in helping our service men & women to feel appreciated and to know that those of us 'back home' do care about their service and sacrifices for our country.

The USO and NRA-ILA are the only two organizations I contibute to, regularly...other than donating my time as current President of our local Crime Stoppers chapter.