Triage time
2003-12-29 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearThis time of year is triage time for charities. All year long, most of the begging letters I get from charities go into a pile. Sometime around the end of the year (and I'm a little later than usual this year) I sort through them, pile up the duplicates, and decide whether I'm going to send them money or not.
So I have to make choices like: which of the five or six nature- and wildlife-related charities do I send money to? Which of the three AIDS charities? Which museums and libraries? Why did I pay that one in July? And so on.
Luckily most of the choices are pretty easy, based mainly on whether I sent them money last year and, for the new ones, whether I believe their cause is worth supporting at all.
I still have to deal with the tax sorting, which involves a different pile. Plenty of time for that next year.
So I have to make choices like: which of the five or six nature- and wildlife-related charities do I send money to? Which of the three AIDS charities? Which museums and libraries? Why did I pay that one in July? And so on.
Luckily most of the choices are pretty easy, based mainly on whether I sent them money last year and, for the new ones, whether I believe their cause is worth supporting at all.
I still have to deal with the tax sorting, which involves a different pile. Plenty of time for that next year.