I m kind of in a dilemma here. My friends and I decided to run our own canned food drive for the people in our community who need help around Thanksgiving time. Needless to say, we were given hundreds and hundreds of assorted canned goods. Lots of pumpkin pie mix, lots of cranberries, lots of canned hams, and so on. People actually thought we were a real charity group with the awesome professional looking banner one of my friends made. The problem is, we don t know the person to give all this food to. I m guessing that they wouldn t be able to eat all of this stuff in 3-4 years. Should we give it to an overweight poor person, being that the said food would be less likely to expire, or should we give it to a skinny person as it would appear they need it more. The other option is to simply return all the food we got to a few stores. The current consensus is that we will return it. I ve never returned anything without a receipt, what are the stores going to do when we go to return canned goods without a receipt?
Give it to your local food bank, for heaven s sake! There must be one in your town -- if you don t know where it is or who to contact, ask your priest or minister. Or call the Salvation Army in your town and ask them where you can deliver the food.You probably won t be able to return it to the store. Even if you could, what would you do then? Would you hunt down all the people who donated to you and give them back their money? Just do the right thing and make sure the food gets where it belongs -- to the hungry.
IF you can t find a food bank, most owns have one. Leave i at a church or social service office. Most groceries stores will only let you exchange the food, so you should give it to some oe that actually can use it, you ll really make a familysthanksgiving and chirstmas nice.
