posted August 14, 2009 02:42 PM         

I used to volunteer at the library. Now I want to volunteer in a soup kitchen but it would be nice to do it at a place with no religious affiliation.

posted August 14, 2009 03:10 PM         

I do!
I love it!
I don't pat myself on the back and say, "oh, good little Gypsee" because if the truth be known I get something out of it. I get a good feeling.

Anyway, I cut hair at the nursing home, and sometimes just hang out and chat. The elderly are a hoot, I love them.

posted August 14, 2009 03:26 PM         

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I cut hair at the nursing home, and sometimes just hang out and chat. The elderly are a hoot, I love them.

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OMG! How creative! I love old people!

What do you do at the battered women' shelter?

posted August 14, 2009 04:00 PM         

Yin, what I do at the womens shelter:

posted August 14, 2009 05:50 PM         

You guys are the best!

lechien, I like your style of giving!

Gypsee, you know I you! You are my hero!

cpn, OMG! Look at all the things you do! You are lighting up so many lives! Amazing generous Leo heart!

Every little bit helps, AG!

Giving is good for the soul, isn't it?

posted August 14, 2009 05:56 PM         

Though, most on here have access to a computer, I dont really help the less fortunate much. They would not have much or any access to a computer. Unfortunately, with some of my tips, I might have helped people who have more money than sense, and probably people who need to clean money.

posted August 14, 2009 10:16 PM         

Cleaning up the glass and other trash around this neighborhood. And like when I some some cretin pulled a nail at a gazebo in a nearby park (that would rip clothes, and possibly skin), I went home, got a hammer, went back and nailed it back down and checked on it for a long time.

Animals seem to instinctively come to me for some reason. One tom who was very independent and wouldn't let anyone touch him came to me when he had antifreeze poisoning (normally cats like that hide when they get sick, as if evading a predator)--speaking of which, I then printed up flyers about better types of antifreeze to use and spread them around the neighborhood after that, too. The weirdest one was when I had a precognitive dream. I dreamt I was walking home from the library on Christmas (as if it would be open), a Catholic Church was all lit up, and a cat I never saw before called out to me and I got him some food. Some time later, it actually happened, save it was Easter instead of Christmas, and I walked BY the library instead of from it, but even the cat--who I never saw before--was identical to in my dream.

One person around here who has cats lost her job and couldn't find another one and an evil bureaucrat sabotaged her unemployment apparently just for fun. She managed to get on welfare, but that didn't cover paper and pet products, so I picked up those things and snuck them onto her back patio late at night (I didn't want her to know it was me because she could wonder what my angle was and I didn't want her to feel nervous, or embarrassed). She knew it was me, though, because apparently like my jokes, "no one else would think to do it." Still, I got good karma from that because she later got hired as an assistant manager at a health food store I go to and got me my favorite spritzers on her discount which was a very nice break for me.

I've recently took care of someone very sick and hosted 2 b-day parties for free.

In the past I used to go to vegetarian potlucks, noticed the vegans didn't like all the cheese (seems cheese is the typical vegetarian's answer to making about anything taste good and be filling...), so I found some vegan recipes and often made more than one dish so that the vegan minority there had an actual meal worth having.

Speaking of which, I've donated to Food Not Bombs, but I didn't get along with a couple of members so I didn't feel inclined to help them otherwise.

I organized a Thanksgiving and Christmas potluck for people who can't be with their families (because of distance, issues like being gay or abused, etc), though I organized it because I missed it myself.

I don't consider street artists & entertainers to be beggars and I'm frequently generous to them. Especially when I lived in Venice, CA.

I used to volunteer at a library, but their board & director royally offended me and I left. I still seem to act as an unofficial volunteer anyway, though I'm now in a different area.

posted August 17, 2009 08:40 AM         

So many kind people here on LL.
Like T said: