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Please make your donations count by checking to make sure the places you donate to are legitimate, have a good record of helping, and aren’t wasting your donation. I have saved almost all the donation requests over the last 15 months. I have made a list of all the groups in the notes section in my phone that we are considering donating to. A friend has written to those groups she is donating to and asking them to only send her mail once a year or they will be taken off the donation list. I intend to do that and give them a couple chances to stop sending requests. After that I will remove them. The hard part is narrowing the number of groups. Cancer groups, religious groups that provide care throughout the world such as those that helped out in Fort Myers (we volunteered with CRS), National Church Shrines, groups that help children like St. Jude’s, Shriner’s, etc. The one thing is we are going to donate once a year so we keep track of the donations. They can all be entered in the phone notes section. Best of luck! I am working on the donations and letters this week. I didn’t include that we give to our churches and food pantries throughout the year.