I work in the construction field and work has slowed so much that I can barely pay my bills. I won't be able to buy Christmas gifts for my children. Are there any organizations in Tallahassee that might be able to help my family?
By Michael
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Most of the charities have a deadline for taking applications and for the ones that I am familiar with that deadline was a week or two ago. Most of them also have a cut off age of 12 years. If you aren't getting many hours with your regular job, you could get a part time job in a fast food place or something. Most of those places will work with the employee on flexible hours.
Also I assume your kids have grandparents, aunts and uncles that will be sending them gifts. You could also hide some of their old things to refurbish. One year when one of my aunts was about 10 years old her favorite doll got lost and her parents and older siblings claimed they didn't know what happened to it. Christmas morning when she walked into the living room the doll was sitting on top of the piano with a complete new wardrobe that her mother had made in the day time while my aunt was at school. This is something my aunt just told me about a week ago so it is fresh in my memory.
There has been times over the years that I would have had to be asking for help if I didn't plan ahead. I start my shopping in January, and have been done for more than a month and everything is wrapped and under the tree. I buy one thing a month, when I see something. No kid needs more than one gift from their parents, and they don't need anything that they see on TV and they don't need anything with a designer label.
There was one year when my girls were little when we got home from candlelight services I took their new dresses off them and when the girls were in bed I wrapped them and put them under the tree, so that they would have an extra gift to open. We had Christmas with one set of grandparents the week before and were having it with the other set the following week. Speak to your pastor, sometimes a church will take up a special offering for a family that is having a hard time.
You could call the Salvation Army, they do help with things like this, but I think it might be past the deadline. Also most charities do have applicants fill out an application and want the gross income.
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