Begging letters!

Letters asking for money are all part of life’s rich pattern I suppose but one or two lately have just made me cross...the assumption that anyone who supports one charity is automatically going to support anything even remotely connected with them is wrong. And has the opposite effect on me.
I have now cancelled two of my direct debits after a whole spate of letters telling me how much more is needed.
After David died I took over all his charities and still contribute to them...it’s the very last thing I can do in his name.
I am not mean. I know how fortunate I am to be able to do it and I remember the time when as a single mum looking after two children I had to chose between shoes or bread....
I have been hard up. I always fed my children on a Vegetarian diet because it was the cheapest option.
I sympathise with those who are now struggling in the same way..
But recently I have been getting stuff from people I don’t know who are trying to get into education. Apparently without quite a lot of my money they can’t go.
This may or may not be true but either way I’m not contributing.
I will never send money to individuals.
Anything I do contribute is to a properly set up charity and even those have been suspect recently.
So please....no more sob stories...as a very poor student and young mother it would never have occurred to me to write to a person I didn’t know to ask for money.
I did once get a twenty pound note from one of my tutors at college so that I could buy enough paper to avoid having to write in very small letters in order to save his eye sight. I paid him back on receipt of my first salary cheque!
No matter what the story I will never give anyone I don’t know money. Sorry but there it is....and I’m not a hard woman, just one whose lived a long time.



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