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If you are a charitable type this situation gives you a chance to directly help someone instead of sending $ to some charity which just absorbs the cash for internal use, like a payroll. You make a decision if the person seems to really need help and you get the good feeling you did something important in that little exchange. My wife recently helped a young mom buy 3 canisters of baby formula in a Dollar Store that doesn't take WIC cards. The girl was sobbing when she realized she couldn't get food for her baby and had to return the cans to the shelf. Sounds dramatic, but if you can help in a situation like that you have really done a good thing. What might be small change to you is near impossible to raise if you are really poor.
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