It's that time of year again. I need HELP!!!
Okay, so, every year, on December 24th, I dress up as "Santa", and walk the neighborhood, giving toys to the neighborhood children. Many don't get a holiday (it's a poor neighborhood, with rising rents, and rising costs of living... many children here get nothing, and fall through the cracks of most charities) I'm not asking for money, and I don't get any financial gain from this (can other charities say the same?) I'm not a registered charity, I just do (so no tax breaks for helping... just that great feeling of having helped out of a holiday spirit) I'm still Jewish. but the children in the neighborhood are not. This isn't a church, or religious thing... this is just making some kids in my neighborhood happy.
So I am asking... no... BEGGING for some help. Help in making a holiday for the local children.
Below, you will see an Amazon Wish List, with a number of inexpensive toys, and "holiday crackers", and if some of my friends here help out, by donating something from the wish list, it will make all the difference in the wold.
You can do it anonymously, or I can celebrate your name in a Facebook posting on Christmas Eve... but please, whatever your motivation... please help! Again, it makes all the difference in the world! I will be spending out of my own pocket as well, but last year showed me that myself alone is not enough, as I ran out of toys before I got to all of he children.
This year I have more than just Holiday Crackers in the list... whatever packs of toys are bought, will be wrapped up in sets, so the neighborhood kids feel like Santa has come. I want to see happy children in my neighborhood come Christmas morning.
Also, anyone who wants to come over on Christmas Eve and help out, I have costumes you can wear, and bells you can ring, and you'll get to see the happy faces of children as we walk the neighborhood, bringing Christmas Joy! (yes, you can say "Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays, or Merry Kwanzaa, or Happy Yule... if it's a holiday greeting, you can say it... just... not "Happy Thanksgiving"... that was Thursday... get your holidays straight, will ya?
Oh, and this is what my Santa costuming looks like:
As for ideas... if you look at my Amazon "wish list", I wasn't able to find anything "train" related to give out this year... if anyone has any ideas, that would be awesome.
Also, if anyone wants to cut and past this blog, and share it, that would be very much appreciated! Last year showed me that I can't do this alone (especially since my own rent has gone up by $400 since then, but my income has not)
This is the difference between young children (between the ages of 3 and 12)
having a Christmas, and not.
(hopefully, this passion of mine, that rivals my passion for trains, is okay being posted here... this isn't for me, personally... this is for my neighborhood, and again, I am not a business, just some Jewish bloke,l that goes out and tries to make a difference... if this is the wrong place for this, I'll take it down, but we all love Christmas. Even this Jewish bloke here)
On a side note, only the land lady, and our maintenance guy knows who the neighborhood "Sinterklaas" is) 