Re: mixed emotions

Dec 19, 2007 1 Replies


There's a holiday can drive at my son's high school. We use it as a


> convenient excuse to clean out our cupboards. For example, I picked
> up the wrong type of chili beans one day and the cans are just sitting
> there, so woosh, they're gone. We didn't take out 25% of what we
> have, but it was still lots and lots of stuff. Sure we would
> eventually use the 4 jars of peanut butter, but I think I can survive > with only 2.
>
> As we are loading all of the stuff up, I couldn't get over the feeling
> that I was somehow giving "junk I don't want" to the less fortunate,
> which made me feel sort of guilty.

C'mon,Pat. Take your vitamin D, and cheer up. Someone's going to feel grateful for free legumes. I might be able to see feeling guilty about not helping.....

I don't even know where to put the type of sentimentality associated with Christmas on Maslow's pyramid

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