Are you angered by constant request for donations? Most of them are from illegitimate charities.

I hate it when I get asked to donate anything in passing, it’s so frustrating. If I gave money to each person asking me for money, I’d be broke all the time!

The only ways I go about donating, are through my national guard base, they have a way to pick a charity, and they deduct the amount from each pay check issued to you.

Sometimes, when I’m drunk, I might give a bum some cash, but only if he tells me he wants to get drunk. If he uses that lame ass “I’m out of gas and need a few bucks” line, I tell him no.

Not angry, but I know which charities I like to give to and for the rest, I’d as soon see my money go directly into the hands of a person. What they do with it afterward is up to them.

I’ve made a personal rule – I do not give money (or buy anything) when someone phones un-invited. I also politely make them promise to remove me from their calling list.

I make donations based on my own criteria. Anyone disturbing me with an appeal gets automatically brushed aside. I prefer to donate anonymously and directly to the point of need. Too many large charities have overhead costs that eat up most of the donated money. I mostly help locally, where I see the need.
My telephone, e-mail and snail-mail are pretty effectively screened. Most of these “charity” appeals I never see.

I don’t get angry,I just tell them no.I am fully capable of determining where I spend my time and money.If you would like to send me money to donate for you,I won’t stop you ;))

Sign up to be on the “do not call” list. Then never give anyone charity on the street money.
Ever.

It doesn’t make me angry because I have the power I this situation.

Oh please let me chime in. There is a disabled child I know very well and watched grow up. He was born with spina bifida. He got his first wheelchair when he was 3 and now is 18, still wheelchair bound. He has had surgeries, he has to do medical procedures every few hours like bladder catheterization, he dealt with bowel incontinence most of his life that made going to school all day very hard. He would develop decubitus ulcers on his bottom and have to be home schooled until they healed.

Every time we would drive through an intersection of people waving buckets at us for “handicapped kids” it would make me mad. We couldn’t get anyone to help. The Lion’s club told us they “just buy glasses”. We took him to Shriners and they told the parents there’s no use giving the kid any treatment because he’d be too retarded to walk, (he was 3) and they sent him away with nothing but inserts to put in his shoes to keep them straight. Oh and they billed medicaid. The kid is 18 now and made a 32 on his ACT.

The places he got the most help was 1. from the state through ssI and medicaid, 2. his school that offered speech and physical therapy at school and things to help him in the classroom and

3. Ronald McDonald House children’s Charities

4. Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago

5. The saddest. but most helpful place. The pediatric ward of the Rehab Institute of Chicago.

6. And most awesomely, neighbors and friends. Community members, neighbors, people that saw the kid every day, noticed he had no wheelchair ramp and his mother had lift him to get him in the house. Regular people, not an organization… but a long haired hippy guy named Bill and his friends, showed up and built the kid a wheelchair ramp. The kid fell out of his wheelchair on a chicago sidewalk, and a hispanic man helped pick him back up and put him in his chair. He asked for the kid’s address. I don’t know who that man is, but soon after, a playstation arrived in the mail with a note from the guy. But he didn’t sign it or give his return address.

The child’s family launched a lawsuit against a local charity that was getting donations for special needs kids but refused to help him. I can’t remember the name of the charity. The charity finally agreed to let him have some physical therapy, but again billed medicaid for it and the therapist was unkind and awful to the kid.

The worst part, is these charities that would ask us for money on the corner or waving buckets would have the nerve to ask us to donate while we were with the kid!!

I don’t get phone calls as such but there are a lot of adverts on TV that are designed to tug at the heartstrings to get people to donate. I assume these ones are legit though. It doesn’t anger me as such but it makes me feel a bit guilty at times because I can’t afford to donate as much as I would like to certain charities of my choice. If I wear to feel angry it would only be because these adverts make me feel guilty even though I hardly have enough money to get through the month after my rent and bills have been paid.

Having an Autistic Son has cured me of guilt @Leanne1986 .
I have struggled since he was three. He will be twenty.
Any success he has achieved is because my Son, my Husband and I have worked hard.
He has been in a good school.
I have received little help from my community or any agency.
I had to fight for his appropriate education.
I have no tolerance for Con Artist.
I just hung up on some jerk who claimed he was raising money for the state police. His organization gives a small percent to the Police.
I have not heard from them in a long time until now.
I think these jerks should be jailed. They are a nuisance.
I have caller ID and I am on the Do not call list.

The US Do-Not_Call law does not cover non-profits.

Don’t be bothered, they are in the wrong, not you.

@jaytkay
The call came up unavailable.
Maybe I will buy a horn or any ear blasting instrument.

Nahh, don’t be angry.

Ask how to get off the calling list, engage them in a one-on-one conversation.

They’ll probably hang up, time is money. But don’t be angry.