Hopefully this will not be considered too off topic, and responses can be encouraging and gentle.
How do you all reconcile Frugality and charity? I recently joined a couple subs and fora to up my giving. I have always donated to organizations but struggle with actually helping real people. In the groups, they post Amazon wish lists or similar and I feel myself cringing a bit when I see $4 jars of pasta sauce or more than basic toys since I'm a frugal type.
I have been trying to not judge and mentally pick a number like $10 a week that I should spend no matter what it is on. I'm also reading the threads and trying to understand that in a lot of needy situations, the convenience factor makes their lives much more tolerable than the actual thing itself (because some are needing that extra spend to save time vs diy/from scratch so they can do other things that make their lives tolerable from various situations).
I'm making some progress on opening my mind up but it's really slow. I thought it would help to get opinions on others who think frugally. Please no opinions on what they should do to make their lives better. Also no need for suggestions on how to figure if those that asking for help are genuinely in trouble. They are worthy points but not the point of my post.
June 07, 2018 at 03:14PM
