I’ve posted before about how I think donating cash is most frugal and green and thus beneficial for charities. They don’t have to spend money sorting, storing, and transporting donated goods and can instead buy what they need as close to when and where they need it.
If you’re looking to make a tax deductible donation in time for your 2009 taxes, you’ve got just a few more days to squeeze in a donation.
Historically, my favorite charities have been the American Red Cross and my local public schools via Donorschoose.org.
This year, I have a couple more charities that I’ve become personally involved with and will be permanently moving to my favorite charities list:
- American Cancer Society
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America
- Look Good, Feel Better (I have absolutely no doubt or worries about my treatment being effective which leaves my hair as my biggest concern about my cancer. Look Good, Feel Better is a specific program sponsored by the American Cancer Society that teaches free classes about wigs, head scarves, drawing on your eyebrows with makeup, and anything else you might want to know how to do so you don’t feel like you look so weird. I’m attending the class Monday night and looking forward to it has pretty much been the highlight of my month.)
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Great idea! And I’m so glad the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is on your list! We raise about $1000 a year for them. It’s our project to help us remember our dear friend Brent who passed away from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 6 years ago.
Hope you have a Merry Christmas! I’m out leaving comments for all the people whose buttons I have on my blog!
Good choice! And not just for the obvious reasons.
Though cash is king, what d’you think about donating a car? Apparently some charities accept them, auction them, and then you get to claim whatever they got for your deduction. If you have a junker, at least you get it off your driveway and they get a few bucks. If you give a vehicle with a decent number of miles left in its lifetime, someone gets a reasonably priced chariot and the charity gets some money. Or maybe the charity itself can use the vehicle.
BTW, one of the most attractive older women I’ve ever seen was spotted at a Marie Callendar’s next to a local oncology clinic. Her silver hair was about a quarter of an inch all over her head, evenly cut (? grown out?) so it followed the contours of her skull. Amazingly, the effect was dramatically stylish. She looked gorgeous. Whatever they’d done to her must have worked, because she also looked like she felt well.
A couple weeks later, I saw a woman at Saks with a similar style, only hers was pretty clearly deliberate — she had a darker hair with a gray/white forelock, a little longer than the rest and blended backward into the shorter hair. All of which, I guess, is to say something like…by golly, wear it proudly!
i’m still driving the first car i ever owned and it’s only 3 years old so donating a car has not even crossed my mind but when it comes time to get rid of it, i’d have to look into all the details more closely.
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