Adult ADD and Money

3 Easy Ways to Donate to Charities

There are times when I feel that I do not give enough to help out other people. It is not because I am a bad person, or disdain giving to charities, it is because like most of us I get lost in the hectic day to day activities of life and I do not have the time or money set aside to make the consistent donations that I want to.

Here is a list of Three easy ways to donate to charities.

1. DONATE MONEY TO CHARITIES ON-LINE

One big problem that I had with donating is that there was always paperwork involved. You had to find the address of the charity that you wanted to give money to, you had to write a letter telling the charity what you were giving to them, and you had to write out a check, address the envelope and mail the envelope. Often times I would end up not giving money to a charity simply because I lost track during one of these steps and I would end up forgetting about it.  Many charities now accept contributions over the Internet, so that it takes under 5 minutes to find the charity that I want to donate and to actually donate the money. When you are donating money on-line just make sure that the charity is an organization that you trust.

2. DONATE FREQUENT FLIER MILES

There are many people that end up not using their frequent flier miles, instead of wasting your miles why not donate them to charity.  The American National Red Cross accept frequent flier miles from several airlines.

3. DONATE YOU OLD CELLPHONES

If you are like me, you probably have several cellphones around the house that you no longer use. I am going to go to my local Staples store and donate the phones to Collective Good. Collective Good allows you to donate to many charities.

On the Road Again with ADDCLASSES.COM

I am going to be very busy over the next couple of weeks promoting ADDClasses.com at a couple of conventions this month.

On October 21st I will be in New York City at the ADDA Regional Conference

On October 26th thru October 28th I will be in Chicago at the CHADD International Conference

If you are going to either conference, stop by the ADDClasses.com table and say "hello"! 

Trick($$) or Treat

According to an ABC News Article, "Halloween is the third most expensive holiday of the year, right behind Christmas and Valentine's Day." Halloween can be a hazardous time for an ADD adult on a budget. There can be a lot of little expenses that are fueled by sugar and creativity. Set a spending limit for all of your Halloween Spending before you start buying costumes, decorations,tickets to events, and of course candy. Setting a Halloween budget will allow you to use their creative abilities to find low costs ways to make costumes and to decorate for the holiday

While it is important for adults with ADD to plan for an event like Halloween. Don't buy your Halloween candy until a couple of days before Halloween. That candy is too much of a temptation for someone with impulsive tendencies, the sugar will also affect your sleeping pattern which ADD adults have to monitor very carefully if they desire to stick to a sleeping schedule.

Not sure what you are going to be for Halloween, visit Family Fun, they have 100 costume ideas, including costumes you can make at the last minute for the procrastinators among us.

Revised Version of Original Post on (9/29/05)

Attention Deficit Disorder Carnival # 20

The "Attention Deficit Disorder" blog carnival is a collection of recent blog entries about Attention Deficit Disorder. The reason that it is called a carnival is because each week the carnival travels to a different host blog. The hope is to expose blog readers to blogs that have a different perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder. Here are some of the best blog posts about ADD for the last two weeks.

• Scuba Diving with ADHD  at  Divester

• Love Is The Best ADHD Treatment   at  Nappy Head

• Is your way Okay?  at  Living with ADD

• An ADD Day  at  Experiencing ADDvantages

• Does National ADD Awareness Day Involve Calculators?   at  The Splintered Mind

• ADHD and Depression  at  ADD @ About.com

• You can do it. We can help. Please buy something and leave.  at  So I Married an ADDer

• ADHD parents have ADHD kids  at  That's Fit

• Stress, ADHD, and Long Days.   at  Commentary on the State of the World

• Bathe in the light of a thousand candles.©   at  whoisjobe

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