Donation Requests

* We have been giving faithfully to about five charities a year. We are on a fixed income, so we have to limit our contributions. However, in the last three years, perhaps longer, requests for donations have dramatically increased to the point where we may stop giving donations. We decided to save all requests for donations. At the end of October there were 57 separate and distinct organizations requesting donations. In this 10-month period, one organization requested donations 18 times, another 12 times, another 11 times and so on. Most of the requests send address labels and we have enough labels to last for years.

We have already made our initial donations at the beginning of the year. We have been totally turned off and will be rethinking what and to whom we will give in the future.

JOSEPH THOMPSON

CYNTHIA THOMPSON

Carson