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Giving Tuesday is My Black Friday:
What Do Your Donations Say About You?
I am highly impressionable but only in matters that I care about. I did not shop on Black Friday. I can identify fake news. I know political propaganda when I see it. But I am a sucker for Giving Tuesday. I care about certain “causes” and so when Giving Tuesday comes around, I get excited!
I know that I am going to give, but not to which organizations. I can’t give to everything that I care about, or to everyone who asks. Warning to you over-anxious do-gooders — Do not try to get a head start by telling me to give before Giving Tuesday. I will get irritated, and delete your email, no matter how much I like your organization. Leave me alone, I’m giving on Giving Tuesday! Don’t cheat! Don’t try to cut in line for my donation! Boundaries, you know.
So Giving Tuesday comes. I am sitting at the breakfast table, having coffee, reading the paper, and then I catch up on my emails on may phone, anxious to participate. There were a few organizations that I usually give to, but when it came to actually donating, their system was not set up to make it easy. They didn’t use PayPal. So I groan and know that they will need to wait. I am not going to leave my coffee, get up and go into my room to look for my credit card, in my wallet, in my purse (oh, the drudgery) to make this donation.
