Happy Friday: Doing More for Moore, OK
Sent from reader, Shanna:
We live a few hours away from where the devastating tornadoes hit and actually got stuck in the ones the day prior passing through on our way home from a family vacation. We have been doing little things here and there to help (donating to the Red Cross, canned goods etc). Well, our local commissary had a fill the truck event this week for the families that were affected by the tornadoes and this was our shot to do more! My daughter held a lemonade stand and raised $16 and we used coupons and the deals from this week to buy things to fill the truck. I even bought some men’s clothes with the Target deals you posted and got back a 20$ gift card and we are going to go get more things with that tomorrow!!
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So awesome to hear about stories like this! 🙂
That’s fantastic!
What a beautiful way to use couponing! This is inspiring.
great way to pay it forward!
its great to hear/read storys like this. 🙂
What a wonderful to do and teach your children.
Shanna, This is awesome. Keep spreading the good Karma. I hope your family and friends remain safe for the remainder of tornado season. Another idea may be to call your local grocery stores and tell them that you are collecting canned goods for the fill the truck event and ask if they have any dented canned goods, etc. that they could donate. You’d happily pick it up and provide photographic evidence that you actually delivered it.
It’s so nice that you’re involving your children. My son asked to donate $50 of his own money to the victims of the Oklahoma tornados. I was so touched at his concern and generosity! Thanks for sharing your nice story.
Awesome awesome!! Love it!!!
Thank you soooo much! So many sad stories here, There is a young girl in my neighborhood that has MS, she’s in a wheelchair, Her specially equipped van will no longer run due to the flooding, The water entered their home and was about 3ft in some rooms, they could only afford liability insurance on their van so no coverage. She’s been in school to learn a trade due to the loss of the van she had to drop out *at least for the summer* She said that the hardest part was losing what little independece she had. If anyone has any ideas about what I could do to hel her let me know.
Jen, what if you contact local, national newspapers, getting attention to the story may help!
i think that in my area a lot of stores would say no because they dont know where it is going to. even if they followed you. i find it hard to believe that any store would just give it to a random person unless you were head or president of a real thing. it would be great tho
Great job!
Shanna. What a wonderful, kind and generous offering. Thank you and I hope more couponers and readers do the same.
You Rock Shanna……but then again I already knew that. So pleased that the kids are learning to follow your heart and help everyone.
Ok, it’s not like I don’t think the action itself is great. I don’t want to be a Negative Nelly, but when you broadcast your good deeds via the internet, doesn’t that remove the altruism out of charity?
I think seeing it gives more people a heart to help 🙂
nope…she’s doing an awesome thing that I’m glad she shared. Of course not everyone can just be happy for her and for the people receiving them. Great job shanna!! I love reading stories like this 🙂
It makes my day!
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It encourages people to do good things, thank you so much for sharing. Shanna, besides being a kind human being and helping others, you are teaching important lessons to your little girl, it is priceless.
How rude Mariel……
ditto!
no it isn’t. i think the whole point was trying to remind others that if they can afford to do something that its a good deed. when someone responds negatively to a post that was hand picked out of probably hundreds or thousands and somebody complains about it then that person is broadcasting themselves trying to get people to notice them.
it is great that you did this shanna. the fact that your children wanted to help is great also!
Thanks to all from Newcastle!
It is so wonderful to see so many people from different parts of the country helping OK out. I live in OK just 20 minutes from Moore. It is truly devasting and so sad to see people’s lives and homes gone in minutes. I went to Walmart the day after to buy things that where on the list to donate. It was crazy to see almost everything was bought out. So nice to see so many people helping out thank you for using your time, money and coupons to help out.