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We have a winner! Frank Buiting sent in a story and poem combined which made me smile the most, not least because it describes a Christmas tradition that I would like to adopt! This is the tradition of giving gifts with a small poem attached - for (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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Hi Russell, They do in Holland, I made an office building for an constructor firm. I hoped to get the stones back after several months, but they gave it away after the building has been on display for only 2 days and it tokk me several days to get (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.fun.community)
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Does anyone know if the Ronald McDonald House takes toy donations? All I could find on their web site was info on monetary donations. Russell (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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I actually got two copies of this from friends and family at Christmas - ooops! Although it is a wonderful book, I can't really do that much with two copies that I can't do with one, so I'm going to give one of them away - Christmas Spirit etc :) I (...) (27 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) This is not a SERIOUS suggestion (this IS .fun... after all) but who's to say that we could not, with our community resources, create packaging that would look like a sealed package, sufficient to fool the mundanes. Actually I am NOT (...) (27 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Well, for anyone else out there contemplating giving sets to Toys for Tots or some other program, here's what I learned. 1) Though Larry's idea above is a great and economical one, for safety reasons Toys for Tots only accepts sealed package (...) (27 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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www.etoys.com has a section now that has discounted toys that they're going to give to toys for tots. I was hoping to set something up with WAMALUG where we each give one little set and gather them up and give from the group (or something). (27 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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(...) Seems like charities will sometimes specify their target price. Maybe if you've got a charity in mind, you could call their P.R. and ask if they have a suggested value range or preference. Steve (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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With unlimited time, the answer seems to me to design your own small sets from some set of larger sets you can get cheaply, and give those. With limited time, I dunno. Tough question. (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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Woo Hoo, I get to start out a new group. Here is my dilemna: I recently donated an 8880 to a charity auction here in DC, and that went pretty well. The sale of that set raised $160+ for a local children's charity. Now, I would like to buy some sets (...) (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.fun.community)
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