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"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
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anne wrote:
I loathe, despise, detest charities that keep you on their mailing lists
for years after you've made one donation. Over time, they've probably
spent more in printing and postage than I gave 'em in the first place.

I will second that one! I get particularly annoyed at the ones who send
you the address labels, scratch pads (with your name on them) and
Christmas cards. None of these are requested, and now some even include a
dime or a nickel! All the money spent could be put to better use, I am
sure.

I select the charities I choose to support; they may change from year to
year, but it is MY choice, and the others shouldn't be trying to give me a
guilt complex.

Bah humbug....and off to giftwrap the last of the family packages.
Fortunately the ones I am doing today all live in Florida, so that is
routine next day delivery with UPS.

Gillian the Sunshine Grinch!



Me three! I'm so ****ed at the Humane Society I want to scream. I must
have gotten 15 requests from them in the past couple of weeks, including
several with pads and address labels and junk.

Lucille

Jangchub wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:19:23 -0500, "lucille"
wrote:


Me three! I'm so ****ed at the Humane Society I want to scream. I must
have gotten 15 requests from them in the past couple of weeks, including
several with pads and address labels and junk.

Lucille

Or the ones who go door to door. I have a DO NOT SOLICIT sign, and it
also says, NO CHARITIES, NOBODY, NOT FOR ANY REASON, DO NOT RING THE
BELL UNLESS YOU WERE INVITED IN, PERIOD THE END.

Ding Dong, yes, may I help you (of course the front door is open most
of the time with the screen door...Oh, I'm here to ask
you...INTERRUPT; "I was wondering, can you read?" To which I've
gotten this response on many occasions upon pointing to the clearly
marked and placed sign, "Oh, I don't smoke."

Ffffff


Victoria

http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/
Updated daily when able.

Thank Heaven we don't have that. We are in a gated community, privately
owned by the residents. We generally close the gates between 6 and 9
pm..depending on which gate and the time of year.

We are so private I have to eat my own Halloween candy!!!!

Gillian

On 12/20/08 9:28 AM, in article ,
"Gillian Murray" wrote:

anyone home?


Sort of - I'm still playing catch up and the snow is just not helping.

Cheryl

On 12/20/08 3:21 PM, in article ,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:33:44 -0500, anne opined:

I loathe, despise, detest charities that keep you on their mailing lists for
years after you've made one donation. Over time, they've probably spent more
in
printing and postage than I gave 'em in the first place.

Particularly the ones who send things, like the cards by Rehandart
(think that's what they call it, done by mouth/foot painters) - I put
them back in the mail because so many times I have heard about the
pittance they pay the artists by way of royalties. It is not as
charitable as one would think.


Frankly, I put the address labels in the drawer (I always seem short on
those), the cards in the drawer with the rest of them (I like using note
cards for certain correspondence). I shred the come one and have no
regrets.

There are charities I support. They just don't seem to be the ones sending
me the "stuff"..


Cheryl

"Gillian Murray" wrote in message
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Jangchub wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:19:23 -0500, "lucille"
wrote:


Me three! I'm so ****ed at the Humane Society I want to scream. I
must have gotten 15 requests from them in the past couple of weeks,
including several with pads and address labels and junk.

Lucille

Or the ones who go door to door. I have a DO NOT SOLICIT sign, and it
also says, NO CHARITIES, NOBODY, NOT FOR ANY REASON, DO NOT RING THE
BELL UNLESS YOU WERE INVITED IN, PERIOD THE END.

Ding Dong, yes, may I help you (of course the front door is open most
of the time with the screen door...Oh, I'm here to ask
you...INTERRUPT; "I was wondering, can you read?" To which I've
gotten this response on many occasions upon pointing to the clearly
marked and placed sign, "Oh, I don't smoke."

Ffffff


Victoria

http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/
Updated daily when able.

Thank Heaven we don't have that. We are in a gated community, privately
owned by the residents. We generally close the gates between 6 and 9
pm..depending on which gate and the time of year.

We are so private I have to eat my own Halloween candy!!!!

Gillian



I live in a gated community too and we have guard at the gate 24/7 who are
instructed not to allow any solicitors in. When my neighbor's grandkids
rang my bell at Halloween I nearly jumped out of my skin, but she sent them
to me deliberately because she knew I would have chocolate for them.

L

Here's Dad's recipe for cleaning silver and it works wonders, too:

1 large sink or v large stainless steel pot - don't use cast iron
hot water
1/2 cup old-fashioned Washing Soda per gallon of water (Arm & Hammer
is what's usually available here)
aluminum foil (I use Reynolds)

Completely line the container with aluminum foil
place silver items in the container so that some part of the item
touches the foil
add the soda around the items (not in)
pour in hot water until silver is covered
Remove silver when it is clean or the fizzing stops, whichever comes
first.

The aluminum and washing soda form a chemical reaction that removes
the tarnish.(This, by the way, is the secret behind the stuff sold on
TV to clean your silver. ) You may have to run badly tarnished items
thru a couple of times, but it does work. You will have to replace
the foil with each run as it gets altered by the chemical reaction.

I have occasionally had to tackle a real tough spot with Wright's
silver cleaner, but handling it via the bath first makes a world of
difference!


On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:52:38 GMT, lucretia borgia
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:28:57 GMT, Gillian Murray
opined:

anyone home?

Yes - sigh - cleaning the silver ready for Xmas dinner, argggh it's a
job I really hate.

says...
Frankly, I put the address labels in the drawer (I always seem short on
those), the cards in the drawer with the rest of them (I like using note
cards for certain correspondence).

Anything that comes without being ordered can be kept, at least that's what I
heard and it's definitely what I do.
--
another anne, add ingers to reply

Jangchub wrote:
Thank Heaven we don't have that. We are in a gated community, privately
owned by the residents. We generally close the gates between 6 and 9
pm..depending on which gate and the time of year.

We are so private I have to eat my own Halloween candy!!!!

Gillian




I live in a gated community too and we have guard at the gate 24/7 who are
instructed not to allow any solicitors in. When my neighbor's grandkids
rang my bell at Halloween I nearly jumped out of my skin, but she sent them
to me deliberately because she knew I would have chocolate for them.

L


Here it's against the law, but you can get a permit. We don't live in
a gated community, but sometimes I'm tempted. A little at a time I'm
trying to get my house all staged and maybe when the market looks
better list it. Move closer to Mark's new job in a gated community. I
can't get the NY out of me. Sometimes the bell rings and Mark just
opens the door! I come from a place where home invasions are not out
of the question. Down here in TX it is not that bad and actually we
live in a part of town where we have one of the lowest crime rates in
the nation. Still, I freak out when he just opens the door.
Victoria

http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/
Updated daily when able.


It takes all kinds!!!
I would HATE to live in a gated community. DH and I are very happy here
in a very old neighborhood just outside downtown, with sidewalks all
over, a corner grocery two blocks in one direction (and yes, Karen, it
has tiny sizes of everything, and is willing to order anything I ask
for), a Walgreens two blocks in another, the street car just over a
block up the street and the bus line two blocks down. Also lots of
restaurants in strolling distance, the LNS/LYS five blocks away
(walkable except in high summer). We really don't get bothered much by
the various Holy Rollers etc., but it is not difficult to say "No thank
you, we go to our own church". Or to simply not answer the door if we
don't feel like it. I do always look out of the window in the front
door before I open it, but we haven't really had any problems. We LOVE
the neighborhood children coming around at Hallowe'en, we know most of
them, and they all call me "Grandma Olwyn". Also, we seem to be the
block parents. A number of the old houses around here have been
converted into apartments, so there are a lot of young singles. Several
of them have asked me to keep keys to their place in case of emergency,
and if the UPS man comes and no-one is home, he comes straight here and
says "Can you take a package for (John, Mary, Paul, Jane, whoever). If
we know the person, we are happy to help out. On the other side of the
coin, if we need to lift something heavy out of the car there are
several young men around who are happy to assist, so it works well.

I am delighted that so many of my friends prefer to live in the suburbs
- it leaves room around here for me. If everyone wanted to live here it
would be like Manhattan - not affordable for ordinary folk.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
(1.5 miles from Bourbon Stret, 1.5 miles from the Convention Center,
three blocks from Magazine Street, one block off the Parade route on St.
Charles Avenue.)

Gillian Murray wrote:
Thank Heaven we don't have that. We are in a gated community, privately
owned by the residents. We generally close the gates between 6 and 9
pm..depending on which gate and the time of year.

We are so private I have to eat my own Halloween candy!!!!

Your gated community sounds a bit like our island. The relative
remoteness ensures that only very determined salespeople (such as
Jehovah's Witnesses) are the only folk who reach our door.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK

"Olwyn Mary" wrote in message
...
Jangchub wrote:
Thank Heaven we don't have that. We are in a gated community, privately
owned by the residents. We generally close the gates between 6 and 9
pm..depending on which gate and the time of year.

We are so private I have to eat my own Halloween candy!!!!

Gillian


I live in a gated community too and we have guard at the gate 24/7 who
are instructed not to allow any solicitors in. When my neighbor's
grandkids rang my bell at Halloween I nearly jumped out of my skin, but
she sent them to me deliberately because she knew I would have chocolate
for them.

L


Here it's against the law, but you can get a permit. We don't live in
a gated community, but sometimes I'm tempted. A little at a time I'm
trying to get my house all staged and maybe when the market looks
better list it. Move closer to Mark's new job in a gated community. I
can't get the NY out of me. Sometimes the bell rings and Mark just
opens the door! I come from a place where home invasions are not out
of the question. Down here in TX it is not that bad and actually we
live in a part of town where we have one of the lowest crime rates in
the nation. Still, I freak out when he just opens the door.
Victoria

http://gotbodhicitta-wangmo.blogspot.com/
Updated daily when able.


It takes all kinds!!!
I would HATE to live in a gated community. DH and I are very happy here
in a very old neighborhood just outside downtown, with sidewalks all over,
a corner grocery two blocks in one direction (and yes, Karen, it has tiny
sizes of everything, and is willing to order anything I ask for), a
Walgreens two blocks in another, the street car just over a block up the
street and the bus line two blocks down. Also lots of restaurants in
strolling distance, the LNS/LYS five blocks away (walkable except in high
summer). We really don't get bothered much by the various Holy Rollers
etc., but it is not difficult to say "No thank you, we go to our own
church". Or to simply not answer the door if we don't feel like it. I do
always look out of the window in the front door before I open it, but we
haven't really had any problems. We LOVE the neighborhood children coming
around at Hallowe'en, we know most of them, and they all call me "Grandma
Olwyn". Also, we seem to be the block parents. A number of the old
houses around here have been converted into apartments, so there are a lot
of young singles. Several of them have asked me to keep keys to their
place in case of emergency, and if the UPS man comes and no-one is home,
he comes straight here and says "Can you take a package for (John, Mary,
Paul, Jane, whoever). If we know the person, we are happy to help out.
On the other side of the coin, if we need to lift something heavy out of
the car there are several young men around who are happy to assist, so it
works well.

I am delighted that so many of my friends prefer to live in the suburbs -
it leaves room around here for me. If everyone wanted to live here it
would be like Manhattan - not affordable for ordinary folk.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
(1.5 miles from Bourbon Stret, 1.5 miles from the Convention Center, three
blocks from Magazine Street, one block off the Parade route on St. Charles
Avenue.)


When you say you would HATE living in a gated community, do you have any
idea what a gated community is? It's not Alcatraz. It's simply a place
where there are lots of house, not so much traffic and a gate at the front.
We too have lots of stores within walking distance, or a short drive and you
may be surprised to know that we have neighbors too.