Yesterday I gave to help defeat Walker in Georgia and to help defeat climate change (following an appeal from Jane Fonda). People in the public eye, as you, Susan, can do a lot to help motivate people to support such causes. Thanks for writing this Substack column.
Americans just love slogans! So, in this season of Advent, some of us prefer to quietly prepare for Christmas, as we are inundated with commercialism and consumerism.
I wrote a few checks last week, and I have a few more to do. But that's something I do at the end of the year, no matter what day it is. The only feature of Giving Monday is that sometimes there are matching programs that double your contribution. Or so they tell us.
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday are days I stay off the roads and away from shopping centers!
When I was working, Cyber Monday was more of a big deal, because I felt I had to have the latest gadget to "keep up with the technology." Now, not so much.
A couple of years ago I got an Amazon Echo (Alexa) for my mother, and one for myself. Mostly I use it for a laundry timer, but it's got a great speaker and I use it to play radio stations.
I use it all the time to turn on/off lights, kitchen timer, listen to music, get answers to questions, get the weather forecast, and add items to my grocery list.
I also use it for a kitchen and laundry timer. When I say Good Morning, it turns on a lamp and gives me the weather forecast and a fact or two about this day in history.
I'm glad Black Friday and Cyber Monday have merged into a giant Black-Cyber couple of weeks. I'm mostly an online shopper who needs more than a day or two, so the stretched out sale period works better for me. We get around to reviewing our list and making donations at some point in December and don't do it on Giving Tuesday. It'll be a different kind of Christmas for us. I'm just going thru the usual motions of pre-holiday stuff anyway.
Oh, Lord. I got a lot of texts, though more emails, and mostly from organizations I already give to on a monthly basis. I, too, found that odd. I am supporting the work already. You want me to give more? I also struggle with "Do I give a little to a lot of organizations I like, or do I lump my donations into one pile for one organization?" (And here is where I say that "one pile" is't that big.)
That was incredibly kind of you. For a couple of years, I put my money toward ending homelessness (LOVE Journey Home CT), but I've since branched out and I wonder if that was a smart thing to do...
Yesterday I gave to help defeat Walker in Georgia and to help defeat climate change (following an appeal from Jane Fonda). People in the public eye, as you, Susan, can do a lot to help motivate people to support such causes. Thanks for writing this Substack column.
That's just awesome, what you did there.
Americans just love slogans! So, in this season of Advent, some of us prefer to quietly prepare for Christmas, as we are inundated with commercialism and consumerism.
Does it feel like a swim upstream?
I wrote a few checks last week, and I have a few more to do. But that's something I do at the end of the year, no matter what day it is. The only feature of Giving Monday is that sometimes there are matching programs that double your contribution. Or so they tell us.
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday are days I stay off the roads and away from shopping centers!
When I was working, Cyber Monday was more of a big deal, because I felt I had to have the latest gadget to "keep up with the technology." Now, not so much.
I am so far behind on keeping up with technology, I love it when young guests in my house start talking to Siri, who doesn't live at my house.
A couple of years ago I got an Amazon Echo (Alexa) for my mother, and one for myself. Mostly I use it for a laundry timer, but it's got a great speaker and I use it to play radio stations.
I use it all the time to turn on/off lights, kitchen timer, listen to music, get answers to questions, get the weather forecast, and add items to my grocery list.
I have no issue against any of these services. I am just choosing not to use them.
I also use it for a kitchen and laundry timer. When I say Good Morning, it turns on a lamp and gives me the weather forecast and a fact or two about this day in history.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ti1hnLiLw
I grew up thinking this was Boston, all of it.
When I stay in Boston I stay in the north end
I’ve walked past the Prince factory dozens of times
I didn't know it was still there. How awesome. And I remember there being some great Italian restaurants there.
The building is still there and there’s a sign on it
They moved to Lowell
That makes sense.
I'm glad Black Friday and Cyber Monday have merged into a giant Black-Cyber couple of weeks. I'm mostly an online shopper who needs more than a day or two, so the stretched out sale period works better for me. We get around to reviewing our list and making donations at some point in December and don't do it on Giving Tuesday. It'll be a different kind of Christmas for us. I'm just going thru the usual motions of pre-holiday stuff anyway.
Oh, Lord. I got a lot of texts, though more emails, and mostly from organizations I already give to on a monthly basis. I, too, found that odd. I am supporting the work already. You want me to give more? I also struggle with "Do I give a little to a lot of organizations I like, or do I lump my donations into one pile for one organization?" (And here is where I say that "one pile" is't that big.)
That was incredibly kind of you. For a couple of years, I put my money toward ending homelessness (LOVE Journey Home CT), but I've since branched out and I wonder if that was a smart thing to do...