10-02-2008, 10:55 PM
BiPenny Wrote:My question is how would you feel if your friend gave you this as a gift? Would it be appreciated? Or would you secretly be a bit naffed off with them? Feel free to be as honest as you wish.
It's a nice notion that someone has bothered to pay for a charity FOR YOU but I'm not sure it really works. I think giving money to charity is something that each person really ought to do themselves. Couldn't you encourage your friends to donate £6 to an Oxfam fund raising for food?
Why, in fact do you want to do it this way? Is it meant to open their eyes to the conditions of people around the world? I think I'd sooner get the small token gift, knowing that you are preferring to donate to some charity, the amount that you would spend on me normally (say), but not let you give to charity in my name... Is this a way charities have of garnering more addresses that they can then bug to get money when they need it?
Really not sure it's a good idea, although, yes, I do believe in being generous.
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for you BiPenny, for being sooooo kind... hehehe.
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