[AsburyPark] Re: Community Food Bank Needs Food
You watch too much TV! Hair shirt, huh? I've bought toys for Blue Star Mothers, Toys, for Toys for Tots, donated money at the checkout of Shop-Rite, donated canned goods for a food drive, hell, when do I get anything? Yeah, I know, Tis the season to be jolly and all that, so I bought myself, 2 Whitman's Samplers! 1 for guests and 1 for ME! A box of candy with directions, so you get to eat the ones YOU want! I've sent out 4-25 card boxes of Christmas cards! You happy now, Post Office? Watched practically EVERY Christmas Movie EVER made, so I could cry into fancy Kleenexes! Going across the street to watch cute kids do a Christmas Play, next week, (bringing Kleenex to that, too)! I even have a cute female MOOSE in a Sleigh! Thank you, Sarah Palin! Going to cuddle up in my Jammies on Christmas Eve, with a full shot of Southern Comfort in a cup of egg-nog and watch Midnight Mass! Fa-La-La-Lah, La La La Lah! So there! Merry Christmas, everybody! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: In a message dated 12/15/2008 10:33:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, oakd...@... writes: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, MarioAPNJ@ wrote: I just spoke with Laurie at the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean She concurred with the Wegmans' executives I spoke with last year: Year-round appeals tend to result in compassion fatigue, and people then tend to ignore the appeals. I thought Wegs was y round. I'll say ok to a $1 or more at checkout based on guilt. - if you buy candy, ice cream or soda (things you really don't need...) We tip more for booze and lousy food. Imagine tipping the food bank 15% of your food order. === Wegs' has posted that their donate-at-checkout service ends around 12/22. I had a go-around with them last year, and vented about it here. But now FoodBank's Laurie has confirmed the compassion fatigue syndrome that Wegs mentioned back then. Everything is a syndrome these days. Some seem bogus to me, like Restless Leg Syndrome which sounds like a drug company marketing invention. But I can identify with compassion fatigue; I first experienced it thanks to Sally Struthers' appeals on late night TV. Now, thanks to Wiki, I learn that I was not alone: The ironic disparity between her activism for starving children and her own weight gain was parodied in South Park's Starvin' Marvin episodes. You're right about the guilt thing about unnecessary purchases, so I figure the sting of pointing to the $5 bar code is more humane and a technological improvement over the pain of self-flagellation or the discomfort in wearing a hair shirt in Press Plaza. It's also more effective than saying three Hail Marys.;-) **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Community Food Bank Needs Food
In a message dated 12/16/2008 4:50:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sharon_b...@yahoo.com writes: You watch too much TV! Hair shirt, huh? I've bought toys for Blue... --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: ...is more humane and a technological improvement over the pain of self-flagellation or the discomfort in wearing a hair shirt in Press Plaza. It's also more effective than saying three Hail Marys.;-) Nah, learned about hair shirts way before the 500 channels, but nothing on them: in parochial school when they taught about the mendicant orders. We used to goof on the idea and suggest that's why vocations fell off. Years later, it came up again when I taught The Canterbury Tales. Kids still laughed at the idea. Might be a good time now to resurrect all those old kinds of penance--for all the malfeasance being exposed in the public and private sectors. :-) **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[AsburyPark] Re: Community Food Bank Needs Food
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: I just spoke with Laurie at the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean She concurred with the Wegmans' executives I spoke with last year: Year-round appeals tend to result in compassion fatigue, and people then tend to ignore the appeals. I thought Wegs was y round. I'll say ok to a $1 or more at checkout based on guilt. - if you buy candy, ice cream or soda (things you really don't need...) - or if you're buying things you do need -like veggies or milk - or if you went there and got yourself a nice lunch... Look at it as a tip to the cashier who in turns donates it. We tip more for booze and lousy food. Imagine tipping the food bank 15% of your food order. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Community Food Bank Needs Food
In a message dated 12/15/2008 10:33:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, oakd...@yahoo.com writes: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: I just spoke with Laurie at the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean She concurred with the Wegmans' executives I spoke with last year: Year-round appeals tend to result in compassion fatigue, and people then tend to ignore the appeals. I thought Wegs was y round. I'll say ok to a $1 or more at checkout based on guilt. - if you buy candy, ice cream or soda (things you really don't need...) We tip more for booze and lousy food. Imagine tipping the food bank 15% of your food order. === Wegs' has posted that their donate-at-checkout service ends around 12/22. I had a go-around with them last year, and vented about it here. But now FoodBank's Laurie has confirmed the compassion fatigue syndrome that Wegs mentioned back then. Everything is a syndrome these days. Some seem bogus to me, like Restless Leg Syndrome which sounds like a drug company marketing invention. But I can identify with compassion fatigue; I first experienced it thanks to Sally Struthers' appeals on late night TV. Now, thanks to Wiki, I learn that I was not alone: The ironic disparity between her activism for starving children and her own weight gain was parodied in South Park's Starvin' Marvin episodes. You're right about the guilt thing about unnecessary purchases, so I figure the sting of pointing to the $5 bar code is more humane and a technological improvement over the pain of self-flagellation or the discomfort in wearing a hair shirt in Press Plaza. It's also more effective than saying three Hail Marys.;-) **Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dpicid=aolcom40vanityncid=emlcntaolcom0010) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
