City Harvest has only a few more days left for their Facebook match campaign.

Heads up for those of you on Facebook. City Harvest is a nonprofit food rescue organization that picks up excess food from restaurants, caterers, cafeterias, and other suppliers, then delivers it to the hungry in New York.

I like my charity to be local, too, but if you're on Facebook, take a minute before you check out for the weekend and suggest their page to every one of your friends! They're getting $5 per new friend until 7/15 [from SOMEBODY ELSE], and that $5 will buy 18 POUNDS of food for hungry people.

Giving to charity is oftentimes FREE, and this is one of those times. JUST DO IT!

Locks of Love Revisited.

Diane was nice enough to send me this link which is less than flattering in its discussion of Locks of Love, an organization to whom my kids donate their hair every five years or so, and an organization I pimped here recently.

Diane doesn't have a dog in this hunt, and neither do I. Seems like the folks criticizing Locks of Love are complaining about two things: 1) Kids with cancer aren't being helped in favor of kids with Alopecia Areata (an autoimmune disorder which causes hair follicles to shut down), severe burns or radiation therapy. Only 3% is offered to cancer patients. 2) Most of the hair donations aren't used to make wigs. "In 2002, LoL received enough hair to make approximately 10,000 hairpieces. Yet give.org cites they only made 113 wigs from human hair in that same year along with 61 other pieces for a total of 174 hairpieces. Where did the other 9,826 potential hairpieces go? "

Check out the article if you're considering donating hair. If you decide Locks of Love isn't for you, a few other organizations are listed.

Take a look over on the right to the Million Can March.

I'm not "into" counter-protesting conservative tea parties like the folks at Les Enrages, but I couldn't help but notice that my box for charity has been sitting in the corner of the dining room while we did the "No. 1" month followed by almost a month now of "mememememe", and the cereal in that box might have passed its expiration date.

Definitely time to get back into the groove of including charitable giving in the weekly food shopping. Even if we don't need to buy anything for ourselves, there are always items that we can get for free or very little by combining sales with coupons offered in Sunday papers.

Coupon Mom ROCKS!

Check out the new at the right. The need is ongoing even when WE get distracted.

Locks of Love.

When we saw No. 3 when he came down for No. 1's wedding, the first thing I noticed was that he'd cut his hair. He's a regular donor to Locks of Love, as is No. 1. He just doesn't like his image to be displayed on the WWW.

No. 1 doesn't mind her picture plastered all over the web, and she also did the donate thing this week.



Minimum length of ponytail is 10 inches.



She lost 10 pounds. :-)