It’s time for another $5 Charity Challenge gift card giveaway. Congratulations to last week’s winner: Megan in Louisiana who plans to use her gift card on toiletries for a Hurricane Ike victim. You can also check out Your Coupon Buddy to see what she bought for her adopted soldier in Iraq with her gift card.
Now, on with the $5 Charity Challenge. Just leave me a comment by Friday at 8 p.m. ET with a little bit on how you’d use a $5 gift card from Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, Walgreens or CVS to benefit your community (e.g., toiletries for the homeless shelter, canned goods for the food pantry, etc.).
Local charities are often in need of shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, razors, lotion, toilet paper, paper towels, dish soap, laundry soap, light bulbs, baby wipes, household cleaners, trash bags, etc. And of course don't forget non-perishable food items and pet food for food pantries.
If you’re the winner, just take a photo of what you bought using the $5 gift card and either send me a link to the blog post you write about the charitable donation or just email me the photo and charity name. I’d love to promote your good work.
Thanks again your participation and good luck. Check out BeCentsAble for another opportunity to participate in a $5 Charity Challenge.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Gift Card Giveaway: $5 Charity Challenge
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I've just started buying shampoos, toothpaste, soaps, deo, and other hygeine products with my coupons to donate to the local shelter. I do this using ES and Man Q's at Walgreens, trying to find the best deal for my money. I'm looking to expand into food such as peanut butter and jelly for the kids and donate to the local food pantires. The $5 will go far when combined with Q's and my thrifty searching of deals.
I belong to a group called Keeping Pace with Multiple Miracles which is a support group for mom's who have twins, triplets and quads. The group is always raising money to help other mother's in need. I would use the gift card to buy any items which are currently needed such as baby food.
I'd donate items to a local senior citizen's group for their bingo prizes. These folks are on fixed incomes and could use some freebies.
We adopt a needy family at Christmas time. Of course, we take care of the toys that the children want but we always add necessities such as toothpaste, new toothbrushes, shampoo. Those are the things that are really needed. Joanne ~~ glamourgirljoanne@yahoo.com
I would donate the items like I do my excess to our church donation box. They then distribute them to organizations around our town! Thanks for this opportunity! $5 at CVS can go a LONG way!!!
Hi- I won last week and I was wondering who I need to email to get them my address?
Megan from Louisana
I am at student at McNeese State University and I would love to help out one student that I have met in my English 301 class. She is from Cameron, which is a place that was devistated by hurricane IKE. Her and her family are living in a hotel since there house was washed away. I am positive that she could use some help.
I would donate to a local pantry in my community.
If I win the gift card I would like to give it to a lady at work who has financial troubles. I don't just want to give it to her and have her go in and buy one or two items and thats it. I want to show her how the rebates work and how you can buy a FAR item with it and then set up a Walgreens account to get a gift card. Then try to get it to grow from there. With each month getting a new far item.
My Girl Scout Troop will be organizing a box filled with goodies for the Shoe Box ministery in November. We could really use this card to purchase items for the box.
I've decided to try to buy items other than canned goods for our neighborhood food drive this year. I am trying to buy cereal, peanut butter, and other shelf stable items to give some variety to my donations.
I would love to make a big donation to our local women's shelter before we have to move. They go above and beyond helping just women. When we were going through a really hard time, we were referred to them and they helped not only myself by my husband and children too. I'd really love to give back as a thank you before we move next month.
I take a bag of goodies to the USO every week or so with toiletry items that I got for free/cheap, and a $5 giftcard to either CVS or Walgreens would help a lot in filling up that bag of goodies!
I am a crazy baker! And what brings more joy to some one who really needs a smile than home baked cookies?? So here is what I would do:
Buy flour, margarine and sugar(have a coupon for sugar). i raise chickens as a 4-H project, i have home made vanilla, and I have a lot of baking powder, salt and sprinkles because of after Christmas sale. Do you know where I am going with this yet?
Thats right COOKIES!!! I would make home made sugar cookies for shut-ins, nursing homes, families in the hospital, and a family who has moved here because of hurricane Ike. I know that is a long list but this recipe makes a lot of dough and because my hens are donating eggs I can spend more on the other things.
So I would want any of the following gift cards: aldi, walmart, or kroger. preferably aldi because money goes farther there
I am a military wife. My husband has been on 2 overseas deployments and one deployment here in Texas. He is gearing up for his 3rd overseas deployment. I would use my new-found talents or what i've recently learned about savings at CVS to get him and the other soldiers whatever I could. For example, snacks are big time over there. As well as hb items. Another option I have is being located in the impacted zone for Hurricane Ike, I would ask my friends whose families were impacted directly (lost houses) and buy them items to help them get back on their feet with toilet paper and other cleaning products or toiletries.
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