Biggest beef with giving and supporting causes...

...is that it seems I end up on so many email lists!

Every once in a while I decide enough is enough and spend a week unsubscribing to every single bulk email I get.......ah, the pre-New Years purge is now on!

I hear you! It seems to be way worse this year, both in email and US mail.

Don't ever hit that "unsubscribe" link. Just tells them that one of the spray hit and who.

My mom used to donate annually to a couple of causes...like American Cancer Society and such. She died in 1991. My dad continued to donate to a couple of societies, like the American Lung Association, until he died in 1998. I continued to receive solicitations, in both their names, for years, through two moves. Not just from the causes to which they had donated, but others as well. The mailing lists must be shared/sold/whatever. Because I was the one who finally settled the estate after my dad died, the public record showed my address as theirs, I guess. The address changes are somehow automatic through the postal service. It was pretty strange to still be receiving mail for my parents for more than a decade after their deaths. In some cases it took a phone call to get off the mailing list. In other cases they actually wanted me to send them a copy of the death certificate. Oh please! I never did. Gradually it all faded away. Once you give a nickel, you're on the list. I can't imagine what that costs them...money that seems to me would be better spent doing what they purport to be doing. But then, if they didn't do all the fund-raising stuff, they wouldn't have nearly as many funds, I guess. Anyway, I'm not particularly stingy, but I'm very careful about just how I donate. I remain as anonymous as I can. Rick

In general, none at all.....
But, being as they do have to at least try - I'd say once a year by mail and also email. But it seems as if some of them are constant.....and they add up!

I think many of us are bombarded by too many messages these days.......

Neither, I make our contributions on our schedule and based on how the organization is performing. I do not want appeals, special offers, etc. They just clog our mailbox, analog or digital.