But today was a new day. I worked out, ate a lunch I'd brought from home, and when I'm done blogging I'm going to pack up this year's Christmas cards and get them out of here and help a good cause.
St. Jude's Ranch for Children* "transforms the lives of at-risk children, young adults and families by empowering them to
create new
chances, new choices and new hope in a caring community." They support their good work by selling recycled greeting cards. Kids take the fronts of used cards, attach new backs, and sell them at 10/$17.
In addition to the cards people were nice enough to send me in 2014, I'm sending them the fronts from the boxes of unused Christmas cards I received from charities in years gone by. I had collected way, way more than I could use, but it seemed so wrong to just dispose of perfectly good cards. I'm glad that finally they will be put to good use … and finally out of here!
*Not to be confused with St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, which also does wonderful but very different work.
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the
lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by
empowering them to create new chances, new choices and new hope in a
caring community. - See more at:
https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf
transforming
the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by
empowering them to create new chances, new choices and new hope in a
caring community. - See more at:
https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf
transforming
the lives of abused and at-risk children, young adults and families by
empowering them to create new chances, new choices and new hope in a
caring community. - See more at:
https://stjudesranch.org/about-us/#sthash.YjV9OCzv.dpuf
I love St. Jude's, and I think it is a great idea to send old Christmas cards to them instead of just throwing them away! I only got 1 or 2 cards this year though. In recent years, people haven't been sending as many, instead putting out a general "happy holidays" message on Facebook!
ReplyDeleteI send my cards to St. Jude's as well. I think they also take non-Christmas greeting cards...all those birthday cards I've just thrown away...
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