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Old 08-30-2005, 05:22 PM  
Peaches
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Originally Posted by D-Money
I met my wife Jennifer in New Orleans during a Cybernet show. So I have some very good memories of New Orleans and it will always be a special place to me.

It's very sad to see what happened. I want to help those poor people that lost everything. I have tons of old clothes and convention t-shirts I'll be giving to Salvation Army, got them all bagged up in my garage, like 12 big garbage bags worth of clothes.
Most charities don't really want clothes. Salvation Army/Goodwill/etc. usually sells the clothes in their stores and uses the money to buy other things (sometimes new clothes ;) ). The time it would take to donate clothes and liquidate them where they could actually help the victims isn't practical.

In fact, the charities I've seen asking for help are asking for hard, cold cash. It's difficult if not impossible to ship things there so they are going out to other towns and buying necessities.

Donate the clothes to a homeless shelter near your home and send NOLA a monetary donation is what I'm hearing.
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