I doubt I've ever donated more than $100 at one time.

I think $50, but I worked at a grocery store for 3 years and had ten dollars taken out of every check (I got paid weekly) to go to a helping familes in need thing.

Was that a voluntary contribution?

Yup

That's really nice of you. Bizarre. But nice.

I was in highschool so I really didnt care, I just had the job to "learn responsibility".

So, you smartened up and no longer contribute to the poor?

No, now I am the poor.

How can you afford an internet connection, then?

I'm either at work or school when I post.

Oh, a "poor" student then? Don't claim poverty unless you have starved for a week.

riiiiight

A months salary. It was an emergency donation, so I gave the whole check

What did you get paid per a month? What was the emergency?

I once gave my best friend one thousand pounds so that he wouldn't have to sell his beloved tropical fish.

Whoops nearly forgot. They do say that charity begins at home so there was the 10000 pounds for my mum in law's stents, 5000 for my wife's nephew's bank debts, 4000 pounds for my brother in law's ear operation, 5000 pounds for my wife's niece's college education... 80000 pounds to parents over the years, the list goes on.

You know you can toss some pounds my way if you want..<3

Well, charity is really for strangers - not relatives.

Their a bit harder to come by these days.

Their a bit harder to come by these days.

true....:bawl:....I guess you just dont love me.

Our daughter's church gives an ark every year through www.heifer.org. We buy an extra water buffalo ($250) and pig ($120). The kids both donate something themselves. Usually rabbits ($60) or ducks ($20). Depends on how much of their allowance they have saved.
We have donated with others for an ark ($5000).

We do donate a lot of our time, as evidenced by my bell ringing son. :D

I donated my own time which is more valuable than money.

I donated my own time which is more valuable than money.

doing what? Handing out dried apples to the homeless? :p

:spank:

What did you get paid per a month? What was the emergency?

The pay is confidential, but I can tell you the reason. It was an emergency that a woman working under me was facing. Her young son had been smashed up in a car accident back home (we were both in Saudi Arabia) and as a poor worker, she needed money to fly home and pay for his hospital expenses. Since she was very poor and was already using all her money to support her children (she was a widow), she was going crazy with fear and grief. So I gave her the check to cover all her expenses. I'm not usually so impulsive, but I could not bear to see her grief, it was a terrible thing to witness.

I guess I can say the check was six or seven times her paycheck.

I haven't actually donated too much money actually really only time.
I refuse to give anything to anyone begging on the street. I know a student who gets about $300/weekend pretending to be poor and basically just sitting there reading a novel in the sun down by the opera house.

I spent one summer building houses for Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer. I used to do volunteer work in the city hospital's ICU. Basically stuff like that.

I know a student who gets about $300/weekend pretending to be poor and basically just sitting there reading a novel in the sun down by the opera house.


good idea...I should do that too

he's a philosophy student

....I spent one summer building houses for Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer. I used to do volunteer work in the city hospital's ICU. Basically stuff like that.

:bravo: We have a Habitat house going up here in town. That's great of you!

Orleander and S.A.M. should be commended for their heart. It's nice to know there are people out there better than you.