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A Christmas Gift
  1. Unread #1 - Dec 13, 2008 at 10:47 PM
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    A Christmas Gift

    So as I was helping out a family that is a little less fortunate than others I thought it would be good to help someone out on Sythe that is a little less fortunate. So follow these writing requirements and I will pick one or a few people to give gifts too. This can be mailed to you (only if you live in United States), Money, or Online gifts. If you would like to help out as well post on this thread and contact me on msn [email protected]

    You can post your writing assignment on here, or PM me. (Other exceptions apply ask for details in MSN if you don't want to pm or post on here)

    A) When was your favorite Christmas, and what happened? (100+ Words)

    B) Why do you deserve a gift? (100+ Words)

    C) What makes you a good person? (100+ Words)

    *You must do all of them and they must all be over 100 words.

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    Have a Merry Christmas everyone

    Nathan, Billyy, or Admin please do not move this. Also do not post unless you are doing writing assignment or want to help participate.
     
  3. Unread #2 - Dec 14, 2008 at 12:18 AM
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    B.Well,first off I would like to say thank you for this oppurtunity.Three years ago we were doing good and then my father lost his job for two years before that we always helped people in need and now that we need help it seems we can't catch a break.My gas is turned off and so is my hot water,so yes I have to take sink baths which is where you heat up the water in the microwave.It's embarrasing but I have to do it. Also anything would help because I have learned over the years a little is better then nothing.If I was chosen for this wonderfull gift I would appreciate it so much and know there are people that are willing to help the less fortunate like myself. I am so happy that there are still people in this world that care so much about the needy and I'm gratefull for that.And Also I would like to wish you a merry christmas and I hope your life is going great because you truly are a wonderfull person with a nice caring and kind heart.

    A. My favorite Christmas would have to be two years ago.I remember we didn't have any money for gifts and I didn't think I would be able to get anyone anything at all.Then I went to the dollar store and I looked around for something really cheap that I could get my mom because I love her so much.Then I saw this beautiful angel.it was a kind of glass one and I figured it must be really expensive,so i looked at the price tag and it was only one dollar so I decided to get my mom that for christmas.So about three to four days later It was Christmas,I will never forget the look on my moms eyes when she saw what I got her for christmas I believe she even started Crying I said "Mom what's wrong" she said "I'm just really happy it's a beautifull gift" and even though I couldn't get my father anything it was still a good christmas.That goes to show you that people can make the best of situations,and still have a awesome time.

    C.I believe alot of things make me a very nice caring person.First off a few years ago before my dad got fired from his previous job of twenty five years,my family did adopt a family where we would buy christmas for the less fortunate. Also I think I am nice to everyone I meet and I try to be friends with everyone. A new kid at my school has tourettes or something and people make fun of him because of that and his speech impettement and everyone laughs at him,I could laugh at him like the rest of the people do but I'm not that mean I think everyone and I repeat everyone deserves a chance.So what if you don't have nice clothes,nice house,or even nice cars it doesn't matter it's whats in your heart that truly matters and counts.I believe that you don't have to give stuff to people to be nice I believe all you have to do it be kind and a wise man once said "treat others the way you want to be treated" and that my friend is so true. I treat people with dignity and respect and kindess and I recieve the same ammount of respect back.That's why I think I am a nice person
     
  5. Unread #3 - Dec 14, 2008 at 12:18 AM
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    A Christmas Gift

    We have things like this go on at our school all the time. I think you should put some info up on how to donate. I am willing to give some money Cfrey to someone in need. I have an idea, you can make a list of people who donated for this cause. And how much they donated. I'm willing to donate 20 dollars.
     
  7. Unread #4 - Dec 14, 2008 at 1:15 AM
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    im also interested in donateing
     
  9. Unread #5 - Dec 14, 2008 at 9:36 AM
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    i might be able to donate some if i can manage to sell some accounts but im not entirely sure.
     
  11. Unread #6 - Dec 14, 2008 at 10:01 AM
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    A) My favorite Christmas was 4 years ago. It was actually the best time of my life; even though I can afford a computer and internet, I had no money for christmas. I spent that christmas with my granny and we stayed up later into the night in an attempt to cure cancer. We failed but I still learned that everyone on the internet can lie, very easily. And that is a life lesson that I won't soon forget.

    B) I deserve a gift for many many many many many many reasons. One of those many reasons is that I am so poor that I only have dial up and a dual core processor. I am also cooped up in my attic all day, my mean step-mother made me live there and won't give me any time on the computer. My life is so horrible and I am overjoyed that someone as kind as yourself is doing this amazing thing for people like me (very poor people).

    C) I am an oh so good person. As I've said before I attempted to cure cancer and my doing so, I lost my pinky. Now whenever I try and volunteer for the homeless shelter, I am always last to finish and that absolutely kills my self esteem. I am still a very good person though and really deserve that free money. I have also never ever told a lie in my life, I hope you choose me and you're like a saint...haha
     
  13. Unread #7 - Dec 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM
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    What is the min amount for donating? i can possibly put a little in.
     
  15. Unread #8 - Dec 14, 2008 at 8:36 PM
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    A Christmas Gift

    What? Dual Cores are great.

    Anyways, it is the Christmas spirit. If you have any way I can donate my time rather than money let me know ^_^
     
  17. Unread #9 - Dec 14, 2008 at 9:51 PM
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    Question-
    Is this actually going to happen? Or was this post useless due to many of the other threads not going through?

    A) When was your favorite Christmas, and what happened? (100+ Words)
    (will fill in tomorrow, short on time}
    B) Why do you deserve a gift? (100+ Words)
    Throughout the past few years, i have had NOTHING. Infact last year i got about $60 in gifts. And a junk mp3. My father passed away, which left my mother on her own to feed/support myself and my younger brother (5 y/o/a). I don't really get to have a social life because she only makes about $2700 a month from board of the horses at our place. To be honest, i don't know how to sum this up so i am going to have to just say thanks to you guys. Even if this is just read, it is well put.

    C) What makes you a good person? (100+ Words)
    Well, I live in a non-communicative part of the outside of a town. On a farm with about 30 animals. I take on a crapload of responsibility. I do not let anybody down, half the time im at home with my lil bro. While most of my friends are out having fun, getting in trouble, etc. I don't really take things for granted or w.e... i have what i have. I understand that, but wish my life was better. Sorry if this isn't the exact length.. but ill post a little more.

    Thanks, and i appreciate that you guys atleast read it :/

    *You must do all of them and they must all be over 100 words.
     
  19. Unread #10 - Dec 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM
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    Just as Gump said, if there is anything I can do time wise I would love to do it. Sadly I cant give any money (as much as I would love to), due to my credit cards being frozen. So yeah, anything at all let me know :)
     
  21. Unread #11 - Dec 14, 2008 at 11:45 PM
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    A) When was your favorite Christmas, and what happened? (100+ Words)

    My favorite Christmas was about seven years ago, this was while my father was still alive (he later died of a heart attack about a year and a half later). At that Christmas the church and my father’s workgroup pitched in money to buy my family presents (there were 6 of us not counting my parents). At this point in time the only computer we had was a windows 3.1 that our old neighbor gave to us kids for helping him clean out his garage, this thing did not even know what a cd was. I was given a mongoose scooter, and I loved this thing till the very last day I had it, I even fixed it up with some old duct tape I found laying around on the floor. This was my favorite Christmas because it was one of the last that my family had together (my brother going to rehab and my other brother going to a foster home because he was an out of control diabetic). I still new very little back then, and I was still a naive little boy who believed everything in the world could be resolved without violence, I could only play RuneScape at the library because we could not afford the internet (our first decent computer arrived about 2 years later from my brother in law because he upgraded and got a new computer). At this point in time I was in the 5th grade and the presents I received that year were important to me because I didn’t have much in the world, the biggest thing I had was a Nintendo 64 that I saved up all winter long to get (shoveling snow with my brothers).
    B) Why do you deserve a gift? (100+ Words)

    To be honest I am not quite sure if I deserve a gift, although my life has not been the easiest out there I am still here and with my family (for what it counts... my mom’s a little Looney, but that’s for another time). My family has never really had the money to support us, even know we have to bother money from my brother that was in rehab all those years ago. This brother recently opened a business so from us taking money from him it is hurting his small business. As of now I am typing this on my sister’s computer because she is down visiting. I am a struggling teenager in his senior year of high-school without a computer, I have a Wii from when I had to live with my brother last year from my mom going crazy and ending up in jail, but it still can receive the internet channel which allows me to get on sythe via my neighbors wifi. My life may not be the greatest life out there, but I still have friends out there who offer me a home to live in for when mine becomes bad (we are currently living off my social security $1072 a month with food stamps $245 a month). This money supports me, my 345lb diabetic schizophrenic bipolar brother, and my schizophrenic bipolar mother (yeah I’m pretty normal compared to them). Every Christmas is when my clothes archive gets updated, I tell everyone to just save money and buy me blue jeans and white t shirts. By doing this over the past 5 years I have gathered up to close to 50 white t shirts and 15 pairs of blue jeans, I am 17 years old and 182 pounds (would be more but my brother eats it all :p). This is my life as it stands right now and why I believe I deserve this.
    C) What makes you a good person? (100+ Words)
    My ability to help others is why I believe I am a good person, I try to live my life by the motto “if you do something right, they won’t know you did anything at all”. So far this motto has done me justice from helping out setting up with the band for their concerts, helping out the basketball team when I can, to even helping out set up with breakfast with Santa so the less-fortunate can enjoy it like I did in years past as a child. After my father died, I helped out an elderly lady with her garden, I became friends with her and she helped me learn to cook cheaper meals so I can help my family get by. This last summer I lived with my brother, and helped him open a business and get out of his drug addiction (he’s now clean although he did OD a week after I moved away from him and was declared dead, he’s now fine and engaged with the woman who saved his life). Whilst living up there with my brother I helped out my mother and brother just as any person should by getting a job and help support them. I did not do this because I had to I did this because I wanted to, I wanted to see my brother and my mother live to the next year as any child would do. Since I am the youngest of my family it has always been hard for me to help out because as I was the youngest I was the weakest in my family so coming by chores that I could do was hard as my mother was unemployed and my father working over- time up to the day he died to support us. After my father died, two of my brothers away from home and one of my sisters in the air force academy I tried to do my best that I could to help support those around me. I’m sorry I go drifted off subject and I believe that going onward I will still reach the 100 word requirement without any of the past ten sentences or so counting. I believe I am a good person because of the way I treat others, I help those who try to do their best in society, and although sometimes hard I always seem to do my best. I type this now because I want you to see the good that people can do in society like you yourself are trying to do now giving to those less fortunate, I am sure there are those worse off than me because I am able to type this to you right now (I am not on my wii, my sisters laptop). I hope soon that when I go off to college I will be able to help more out there and continue with the efforts I am putting forth right now to help society, because without those who care we as a whole society cannot move forward in life we are stuck moving in the same circle that we have been moving in for the past 12,000 years. I thank you for taking your time to read this and hope you have a great day.
     
  23. Unread #12 - Dec 15, 2008 at 12:51 AM
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    i might also be able to donate, and like others we have these type of things at our school all the time.
     
  25. Unread #13 - Dec 15, 2008 at 7:28 AM
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    Alright so many people are wondering about the donating system. I will not nor will anyone else receive your donations. I will do some checks to make sure people are being legit, and supply people with lists of who needs some help. I might lose my internet though so this might be a little difficult. If I don't happen to be on please try to do the best you can by helping. I'll see if a mod can take over if I disappear. Basically you will read the stories on here and pick who you want to donate to. Please if someone has been donated to already try to help someone else that hasn't had a donation (unless they are some liar then I will take care of them myself ;)). I myself am donating over $100 and an ipod to who I feel needs it. Though my gifts might be after Christmas unfortunately :(, if not I'll try to mail them out by the 18th.

    Good luck guys, and thank you very much. Just a little gift from someones heart can change a lot.

    That's not how it works here. The people who want to donate are doing this for a good cause for people less fortunate than us. We don't do it because we like them. We do it because we care about others, and we want to make a change in peoples hearts. Now if you don't agree with helping people that don't have as much money as others don't post.

    This is actually going to happen. With that attitude why are you even writing?
     
  27. Unread #14 - Dec 15, 2008 at 5:54 PM
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    I'd be willing to give some of my time to help out too, if you need anything that I could possibly help with let me know :)

    Great idea, but I think some people might take advantage of this.
     
  29. Unread #15 - Dec 15, 2008 at 8:34 PM
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    I'm willing to donate a psp,and possibly some $ to Fsoul and benny.
     
  31. Unread #16 - Dec 16, 2008 at 2:44 AM
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    A) When was your favorite Christmas, and what happened? (100+ Words)

    Id have to say when i was about 7 years old because that's when i got all the cool toys and stuff and pretty much what i saw on T.V was what i liked back then but i was lucky to get all as much of the presents i did get, if the whole family wasn't there i wouldn't have got them ,and yea that has been the only time when all the family from every where came to my house for a Christmas party and i actually got to hang out with my cousin's for a longer time period, usually didn't spend time with them because they lived so far away but yea we just played with all our toys we got and we didn't even have to share not because there was to many to count but because they were really something a kid would enjoy a lot which i did. were all having a good time every one bought food for the party instead of just us supplying it all which would have cost a fortune.


    B) Why do you deserve a gift? (100+ Words)

    I'm happy with what i get for Christmas,its not a lot because my mums a single parent and i do have an
    older brother and these days the money just seems to be all going to my brothers education which doesn't leave much for the gifts at the end of the year because also the next year coming there's all the school uniforms and stationary , Me and my brother had to go half's on the money my mum had for gifts but anyways enough about gifts the best thing for me on Christmas would be to see all of the family again and to get to know the older one's that don't live as close and really get to know them because Christmas is all about family.
    Also a gift can be anything it can be service also which is what i do, im a Mormon so i go out a lot with the Young men to help out the community. earlier this year we helped out a a store that was getting ready to open so we helped rip out all the old carpets and painted the place for them which probably took about 7 hours to do because of the space.


    C) What makes you a good person? (100+ Words)

    Just generally because I'm a thankful person,i don't encourage bad things I am Asian so i do get a lot of comments about my race in front of my face but i don't retaliate with physical violence or swearing. It was along time ago my Parents split up when i was 3 and my brother was 5. My mums a single parent so i try help her out around the house as much as i can so she doesn't get to tired looking after 2 boys by herself. But it doesn't mean i don't help my Dad out even thought he didn't live with me i still took the time to get to know him as a father by going visit him weekly and help him out at the local store when ever he needs it. we still do the father and son things.
    I am a Mormon and i have higher standards then any of my mates so when they go out underage drinking at peoples house's i go with them but not to drink but to look after my mates so they don't end up wondering of somewhere or if they need help ill be there. I Do service project with a group of young men for the community at my own will i don't get paid for it it a service act.


    Thanks for taking the time to read And thanks heaps for the kindness of Cfey! for organizing this thread and all the others who are willing to donate and help out!
    Merry Christmas to Everyone!
     
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    I have a feeling you don't fit the requirements...
     
  35. Unread #18 - Dec 16, 2008 at 9:20 PM
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    A) When was your favorite Christmas, and what happened?

    My favorite Christmas was when I was around 8 years old. I awake from my bed at night, waiting anxiously for time to pass, so I could open some of my presents (it's christmas eve, around 9:00 PM). I quietly walk from my room to the living room.

    There, I see the Christmas tree decorated with copious amounts of lights, illuminating the area around it with the several different, colors it seemed.

    Since I was little, even though there were only 5 different colors, it seemed to me that the different colors on the tree made it look like I was looking at something like the 100 set of crayons. Anyways, I wake up, and I dash to the living room, and there are my two parents, and my mom saying to me "good morning David". I rush to the presents and start opening my set of presents. The presents were pretty decent; I got a really neat sweater.

    Though, one present struck me the most. I open my last present, and there I see a little stuffed dalmation(a stuffed dog). It was a really awesome moment for me because I've seen them on Tv, and I had always wanted one of them. Also, inside the present box was a little letter. My mom read the small letter to me (I still have the letter as of today): "Hi! Thank you for adopting me! My name is Jewels. I am sure we will have a lot of fun together!". Anyways, I loved that little stuffed dog ever since I received it.


    B) Why do you deserve a gift?

    I actually don't think I need a gift myself. My parents have helped me through my life. I know that there are a select amount of people who don't have caring parents. If I were to get anything, I would donate it to them, my parents.

    Why would I do that? Well, my dad is the only one working in my family at the moment. I won't share what his salary is, but I will tell you that he is working as a custodian at a middle/high school. It MAY seem that he doesn't make much money, but he does put food on the table, and I am so grateful that he is there and willing to work.

    C) What makes you a good person?

    My parents have always called me kind. I would too, say that I am kind to others. If someone were to come up to me with a concern that is personal, I would sit down with them, and talk things out. My sensitivety allows me to understand what people are going through.

    Also, experiences such as living through depression; I have lived with before. I am not depressed anymore, though it only lasted from a 6 month time period. I'd say that my strongest point as a person, and in my personality is understanding, and advising.

    I hope everyone has a great Christmas, and don't get too commercial. Be grateful that you, hopefully, have a caring family to take care of you.
     
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    i might donate. :)
     
  39. Unread #20 - Dec 17, 2008 at 7:01 PM
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    Well the people that wrote their stories are the ones that did them. Pick who you want to donate to and pm them or something to get some information. I am not responsible if anyone is lying about their stories. If I catch one of them lying they will be punished. I will try to verify that some people on this site actually need it, and if you want to contact me on msn I'll tell you who once I find out.

    Once you have donated I'll add your name to the list and see if I can fill you in on some stuff. (With proof of course)
     
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