This is nice! People should be nice!

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There's this holiday drive on Amazon to buy things for kids. It's really nice. I like to do things like that and maybe you do too, so maybe instead of flaunting our own Amazon wish lists and people buying us things we should buy little kids things.

Don't all rush and buy Avril Lavigne CDs now ok?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this ? Its for poor kids? How do I find out more?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That reminds me, I must update my wish list.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

or to use its full title, "the obligatory amazon wish list". except that i don't have one. i keep meaning to make one, then i get real and remember that nobody will buy me stuff. sorry, this isn't relevent really, but that's because i'm not very nice.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Another nice idea for the holidays is to donate a bunch of stuff. You'll be getting some new things for xmas, so why not get rid of some older things? I have not actually done this nice deed yet this xmas, but I am thinking about how I should do it - especially with clothes because my closet is crammed full of crap I never wear. Of course, I don't think any little kids can fit into my clothes (unless they are 5'11" & lots and lots of pounds - very big kid) but their poor mommies can wear them and save money for kids clothes. Yeah, you get my point...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

second hand clothes are great. better than new ones. they have history.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I've bought a couple of presents for the "Giving Tree" appeal - children who are staying with their Mums in the local domestic violence refuge at the moment have been asked to write a letter to Santa asking for just one present. Considering the trauma and upset they must have been through in order to end up at a battered women's refuge, I doubt any of these kids are seriously expecting to receive any presents this Christmas. Many of them left home with little more than the clothes they were wearing.

The Santa Letters have all been gathered up and put on a Giving Tree in the local shopping centre - where people can go and choose one, buy and wrap that present and label it to that particular boy or girl, and then hand it in to the Refuge staff at the collection point.

None of the gifts which the kids had asked for was very expensive - mostly around five or ten quid each, that's all - and their letters really choked me up. In the midst of all the seasonal madness, I feel really happy that I've helped to make some little person's wish come true. Isn't that what it's all supposed to be about? Putting a little bit of magic into someone's life.

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― C J (C J), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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