Giving brag - SHARE YOURS HERE

[lilo0003]

Anyone know if this deal is at fortinoes too id love too fill a few bins

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I believe it was Loblaws and Independant, I would be all over it if it was Fortinos or Superstore.

[lizzie bargain]

I saw Similac Advance powder 658 grams on a clearance rack at No Frills(expiry 2015). It was regular price $22.00, on sale for $6.99 and I found a $5 off coupon in my coupon file so OOP was $1.99-lord knows why I even kept that coupon as I don't have a baby! Anyway maybe this was the reason I saved it and will donate to a parent in need or the food bank bin at the grocery store. Small donation but if I can save somebody in need $22.00 by spending $1.99 that is a small, easy thing to do. I wish I had more coupons as there were a few other containers there so posted this info on my local Kijiji to alert parents looking for cheap formula.

[MrsSunshine]

we just had some kids in our neighborhood come 'caroling' so sweet.. so i gave them each $2.

[i_forget]

I doubled up my donation for the gift of giving so both an unfortunate boy and girl can have an awesome present under the tree.

Happinees comes from giving, not receiving, so if you can....give.

[terrarankin]

100 cans of soup to a local men's shelter and the food bank. Also put in some of my stockpile condiments and toiletries

[coupon girl]

just donated to our cities food bank- full bags of pasta(7)pasta sauce, 4 boxs of all-bran cranberries cereal sauces-plum/honey garlic-cammoile tea-crème of wheat an about 8 tins of baby fomula (mind you they were free from joining program -but my daughter-in-law"s 2 friends gave me a few they could not use also-so about 25.00 out of my stockpile-even thou I am out of work it felt so good

[beckie.c]

Just a small one, but when school supplies were on sale, I picked up about $100 worth to take with us on our Dominican trip in the new year. They are such pricey items down there, and so minor here.

[sweetproserpina]

My giving brag began in March this year:



This little fellow arrived happily, but needed a wee bit of help so off we went to the Nicu at Mac Kids Hosp. I had to stay in a bunk room down the hall by myself, (as the DH was home with my DD) and the week following his arrival I was stuck at the hospital, fending for myself (while trying to recover!). Luckily, one floor below and down the hall was the Ronald McDonald Family room. Open 9am-11pm! Staffed entirely by volunteers, and stocked with essential foods that are entirely there from donations. Everything was free. I could make a cup of tea there in the morning, have some toast etc. everyone was super nice. They even had a washer/dryer that was available to use. When my DD came to visit we could play with toys, watch the telly, or sit and eat together. A really great place for families even though we all wished we could be at home and healthy!

The one thing I really missed during that week was fresh food. They are always, always!, looking for fresh fruit and veg. It is so seldom donated. So, I decided that come fall when the fruit was ready we'd bring some in.

First we picked pears...



Then we picked apples (though I'm not sure how much these layabouts helped) we ended up bringing over 1/2 a bushel..



And I also brought in all my single use sample packs for the laundry, and a few odds and sods from the cupboard...



I have 30 cans of soup now waiting til we venture out that way again (even got a 'you go girl; from the cashier at RCSS when I bought them and made .20 a can!)

If you ever have a glut of fresh stuff and don't know where to donate it- the family room at MAC, and the Ronald MacDonald House around the corner would be super happy to take it off your hands. And you'd make a lot of mums, dads, and kids happy too!

[Anna Michele]

great idea and what a fantastic way to give back!

[sun_shine]

I love reading all of these stories about how you are all getting your children involved in helping those less fortunate I used to run an after-school program and we did a food drive around Christmas time, and this boy (6 years old) told us that he was not going to give his food away to anybody, and that if they were hungry they could get their own food. We tried explaining that they didn't have any food, and couldn't afford to buy any, but he insisted that he would not give his food away. I was shocked to hear this response from a boy so young! His mom seemed like a genuinely nice person, so I gave him/her the benefit of the doubt that maybe he wasn't understanding what we meant. I explained the situation to her when she picked him up, just hoping that maybe she could have a talk with him at home about what it means to "give his food" to others. I'm not sure if they ended up contributing to the food drive, but I do hope that she was able to help him understand, and that maybe one day he'll be writing his own "giving brag".