Laker_Girl
Mrs. Big Dick McGee
I'll be doing my usual charitable giving. Picking a name off the giving tree at church, donating instant mashed potatos for Second Harvest, helping to prepare the Thanksgiving Feast my church offers to the community and the like. Same thing over Christmas but this year I've decided to kick it up a knotch.
I thought it was about time my niece (age 6) and nephew (age 8 ) learned more about giving than receiving this year. Rather than going all Mommy Dearest on them I think I've thought of a really great start to a lifetime of giving back for my precious babies.
Toys 'R' Us is doing the Toy For Tots Toy Drive this year and for every toy you donate they donate the same toy. So one weekend early in December I'm going to have my niece and nephew come over and do a whole Saturday's worth of chores around the house. Help clean the patio, help sort the laundry, dust, help decorate for Christmas, etc. I will pay them $5.00 an hour each at a minimum of five hours (seems like a long time but kids take forever to do even the simplest of chores). On Sunday after they get home from church I will take them to Toys 'R' Us and they will spend every single penny that they made on a toy or a few toys for the Toy Drive and I will pay the tax.
Next year, when they're a little bit more mature I will have them pass out toys to sick children in the hospital and I might even start a classroom toy drive at their school.
So what are you going to do?
I thought it was about time my niece (age 6) and nephew (age 8 ) learned more about giving than receiving this year. Rather than going all Mommy Dearest on them I think I've thought of a really great start to a lifetime of giving back for my precious babies.
Toys 'R' Us is doing the Toy For Tots Toy Drive this year and for every toy you donate they donate the same toy. So one weekend early in December I'm going to have my niece and nephew come over and do a whole Saturday's worth of chores around the house. Help clean the patio, help sort the laundry, dust, help decorate for Christmas, etc. I will pay them $5.00 an hour each at a minimum of five hours (seems like a long time but kids take forever to do even the simplest of chores). On Sunday after they get home from church I will take them to Toys 'R' Us and they will spend every single penny that they made on a toy or a few toys for the Toy Drive and I will pay the tax.
Next year, when they're a little bit more mature I will have them pass out toys to sick children in the hospital and I might even start a classroom toy drive at their school.
So what are you going to do?