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<\/a><\/p>\nI find with it being the holidays people are seemingly a little more generous. \u00a0Usually. \u00a0However I personally try to be generous all year round and extra generous when the holidays roll around because that\\’s when the sting of not having much, if anything at all seems to hurt the most. \u00a0I also find that those who have the least are always willing to give the most.<\/p>\n
Now don\\’t get me wrong, I LOVE to buy things for me. \u00a0Who doesn\\’t? \u00a0However somethings I\\’ve had to wait years to obtain. \u00a0Like my bad ass kitchen Aid mixer. \u00a0However being the\u00a0procrastinator\u00a0that I am, doing one\\’s taxes in late November can have a huge pay off. \u00a0Not just for me mind you, but others.<\/p>\n
I\\’m a firm\u00a0believer\u00a0that charity begins at home and while I do feel sorry for those children in the picture above, I am also grateful that I have a lovely home, food in my fridge and friends and family who accept me for who I am. \u00a0Some charities and not for profits can\\’t afford mass amounts of media coverage that make people feel sorry for others and encourage them to give. \u00a0These are the people that I think of the most often when I am able to give back in the hopes that someday, somehow that it will be paid forward.<\/p>\n
This year for Christmas, instead of spending my\u00a0substantial tax return on myself and myself alone I did\/doing three things. \u00a0I helped save a dog from being put to death hours before he was due to hit the gas chamber. \u00a0Myself, along with a friend, my dad and the help of an animal\u00a0rescue I am pleased to say that Shamrock will be getting a new home for Christmas! \u00a0Between my father and I, we were able to pony up the adoption fee money weeks before the holidays. \u00a0Money that I could have spent on a new tattoo or some other thing for me. \u00a0Instead Shamrock and I will be making the trek to Ontario along with friends and 2 other dogs to his new home in Cambridge, ON so that he can meet his new dad and his new sister\u00a0Belgium. \u00a0Had it not been for the money and the sheer generosity of a ride to Ontario Shamrock would have been placed in a rescue once again waiting for his forever home.<\/p>\n
I have a friend who lives in\u00a0Tennessee. \u00a0I absolutely love her, she\u00a0brightens my day with her presence and seemingly knows when I\\’m down and need a pick me up or just a smile. \u00a0She & her family, like so many others are struggling to make ends meet. \u00a0It broke my heart to read her husbands plea on a public forum asking for help. \u00a0It\\’s never easy to swallow one\\’s pride and ask for help and while I\\’m not\u00a0comfortable\u00a0with\u00a0sending anyone money (including registered charities) I do like to pitch in and help just the same! \u00a0She has two children and while I am not a parent myself I do have \\’my kids\\’ and I couldn\\’t imagine how I would feel not being able to do something. \u00a0Christmas is the most magical thing for children and I can fondly recall waking up in the wee hours of the morning and running downstairs with anticipation with my sister to see what Santa has left under the tree. \u00a0There\\’s a care package en route from Canada to the US to that family & while it\\’s not much I know that they appreciate it so much! \u00a0Which is why I took it upon myself to do this and told her about it after I had done it.<\/p>\n
Simply because I could. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I\\’m also donating and\/or \\’re-gifting\\’ \u00a0some items I have gotten from other people as presents that I would have no use for or things that I had purchased for a different project and no longer need. \u00a0Mostly bath items and the like. \u00a0I ALWAYS appreciate the thought behind the gifts that I get from the \\’clients\\’ at work, it\\’s always nice to be thought of any time of year. \u00a0However I would feel terrible if it was just to sit around my apartment and never get used. \u00a0So for those things, I am passing them onto an abused woman\\’s shelter. \u00a0Some of these woman have no choice but to flee with the clothes on their back and little else. \u00a0We tend to take the simple pleasures in life for granted. \u00a0Something as simple as a bottle of perfume or a nice smelling soap, something that adds that\u00a0feminine touch to your day. \u00a0So while I am thankful to be thought of, I know that these items will be that much more appreciated because I have them in abundance and others do not.<\/p>\n These are the forgotten one\\’s. \u00a0So next time when you think about giving, try to give locally and to those that don\\’t get the attention that they need and\u00a0certainly\u00a0deserve. \u00a0I didn\\’t write this post to \\’brag\\’ about what I did. \u00a0Because I don\\’t need to do such a thing to feel better about myself. \u00a0I don\\’t require countless amounts of praise from anyone. \u00a0I just feel good inside knowing that I made a difference, even if it\\’s just a small one in the lives of others. \u00a0I also didn\\’t go about it alone either. \u00a0I am grateful & thankful that I have such generous people in my life! \u00a0The bottom line? \u00a0If I can do this, so can you!<\/p>\n Pay it forward, not just today but everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seen this on facebook & this is what prompted this post: I find with it being the holidays people are seemingly a little more generous. \u00a0Usually. \u00a0However I personally try to be generous all year round and extra generous when the holidays roll around because that\\’s when the sting of not having much, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts-with-steph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}