On: This Christmas, turn your gifts into charitable giving

[amalcon]

I have tried to do this before. (Manually, but still.)

It does not work. People genuinely want to buy you useless junk you don't actually want.

[pmichaud → amalcon]

This is kind of true. If you stick with it people eventually come around. I've been doing it for years. Dig it:

http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/new-rules-for-christmas/

[rflrob → amalcon]

I've tried it too, although I've said to donate to a charity of their choice in my name. In retrospect, I wonder if making them choose made them more or less likely to give...

[frossie → amalcon]

I would like to try it, but to be honest I haven't figured out how to do it without coming across as... sanctimonious?