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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:45 PM Mar 2020

Ideas on what to do to help from home?

Would love to hear ideas.

Bored, we cleaned out closets. Have tons to give to Goodwill..but thought, when it stops raining put in front yard. "Dollar Sale"

With a box to put $ in, and a sign "all $ goes to____ ( local food bank? Whatever charity helps people during pandemic).

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Ideas on what to do to help from home? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 OP

buy gift cards from your favorite restaurant or bar. many of these folks have been employed there Pillow talk Mar 2020 #1

This! mcar Mar 2020 #2

not much I can do... but handmade34 Mar 2020 #3

Staying home seems a weird way to help, but it should help. Stay healthy uppityperson Mar 2020 #4

I posted this earlier. sinkingfeeling Mar 2020 #5

Pillow talk

(265 posts)

1. buy gift cards from your favorite restaurant or bar. many of these folks have been employed there

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:49 PM

Mar 2020

for years. they need a job to come back to.

mcar

(42,372 posts)

2. This!

Reply to Pillow talk (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:19 PM

Mar 2020

handmade34

(22,757 posts)

3. not much I can do... but

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:39 PM

Mar 2020

I live in a relatively rural area but the road by the house is a "main thoroughfare" from village to village

last year I put up a small self-serve stand to sell my honey and a few misc. things I make...closed for the winter, then, didn't plan to open until May but...

this week I shoveled a path to the stand, ordered a couple of commercial coffee urns and a "hot box"... the restaurants are closed in Vermont and so I am, along with my honey and misc. will be offering coffee, muffins, etc. for free (or donation) (I have a home bakery license)

I also make soap and will offer it if I can somehow keep the non food items separate

uppityperson

(115,679 posts)

4. Staying home seems a weird way to help, but it should help. Stay healthy

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:46 PM

Mar 2020

because providers and hospitals may not be able to care for you.

sinkingfeeling

(51,471 posts)

5. I posted this earlier.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:19 PM

Mar 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213143031

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