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