GON Reader Letter
#1
Before recycling newspapers, check with pet rescue and adoption centers
Before recycling newspapers, check with your local pet rescue and adoption centers. They most likely need them. Be sure they are only the newsprint; not the colored flyers often enclosed. The little puppers need dry living quarters.
-- Elizabeth Joy
GON Reader Letter #2
Magazines are often in demand at resale shops and rummage sales
Magazines are actually very much in demand, provided that they are recent (within the past year). The resale shops and rummage sales that I frequent have been known to carry the New Yorker, Scientific American, New Scientist, Focus, and National Geographic for about 25 cents each, as well as gossip magazines. I get magazines that I would not otherwise be able to afford and my whole family enjoys reading them.
My opinion is...don’t donate really old magazines anywhere. They tend to feel strange, the colors are off, and they don’t smell very nice. I’ve noticed that most places can’t give them away and end up recycling them.
--
Jenny
GON Reader Letter #3
Thinking of donating a puzzle? Consider donating to a senior living center
In response to your March 13th ezine, I smiled
when I saw the jigsaw puzzle listed. My mom has enjoyed many of those. Mom resides in a senior living apartment building where such things are shared on a table by the community room. If the box is labeled "missing piece(s)" the stress is off to search for it once it is otherwise completed. She especially appreciates if the location is circled on the box cover.
Mom is 94. She says having a puzzle in progress often results in visitors staying longer and engaging in working the puzzle together, an important "piece" of her day since she cannot get out to share in activities elsewhere.
GON readers: If you have a puzzle you're planning on giving away, please consider donating to seniors .
-- Beverly Lyon
