Do you give?

[Madman]

Don't give a lot to charity anymore. Honestly, almost nothing anymore. Used to donate to various ones and the next thing you know I'd be getting all this unsolicited crap in the mail from every bullshit charitable organization around. Guess you can say I got a little ticked over it. One even sent me a Dreamcatcher. "How neat" I thought, even thought about sending them a donation - while trying to take it out of the wrapper it broke... the envelope, its remaining contents and any potential hope went with it.

I have to watch my mother. She has a tendency to go overboard with these places so I keep a record of who she donated to. She has a cap of $20 each time. Old people have a tendency to go a little nuts with the donations. Her sister (who's 88) gave away thousands to the Republican National Committee. She thought she was on some important board becasue of the amount she gave. Poor thing, it was all a legitimate, legal scam from the real Republican National Committee to get people to donate to them. I tried to tell her what it was, but she just wouldn't listen. I told a couple of her kids about it and left it alone after that. As it turned out she blew most of her retirement on this crap.