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Re: mixed emotions Michael Bulatovich 12-19-2007
`--> Re: mixed emotions Michael Bulatov...12-19-2007
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on December 19, 2007, 8:51 am

> 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.....



Posted by Michael Bulatovich on December 19, 2007, 10:13 am

>>
>>
>> > 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 was trying to figure out how someone works chili flavored kidney
> beans into a Christmas dinner. I guess someone will....

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.svg




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