A MONTH LATER THE CARPET STILL SMELLS and WE'RE STILL CAMPING OUT IN THE LIVING ROOM and GOING THROUGH OUR CLOSETS

It's true.  New padding has been laid, the carpet has been reattached to the tack strip, but we still think it smells.  We're going to get one more carpet cleaning.

In the mean time, slowly, very slowly, we are rewashing all our clothes.  The fans that dried the carpet spread a lot of dust. 

We went through our closets, trying everything on, and decided to donate a huge box of clothes in good condition to our local hospital.  We found out that many of the people who go there HAVE NO CLOTHING TO GO HOME IN!  Some of them are homeless.  Some had their clothes cut off of them in an emergency situation and just don't have any family or friends near enough to bring them clothes.

And we are not going to ask for a tax deduction either.

HOMELESS MAN WHO RETURNED $40,000 REWARDED : GOAL $250,000, HOUSING, JOB TRAINING

CS MONITOR : HONESTLY EARNS HOMELESS MAN $104,000 AND COUNTING

EXCERPT: Glen James said it was the right thing to do and now that selfless act is paying dividends. Big dividends. 

 

He's being rewarded because another man, a 27-year-old marketing firm employee from Virginia, Ethan Whittington, heard about him and set up a website for the homeless man at an online fund-raising site called GoFundMe. Whittington enjoys helping and said James is "inspiring."

HAPPY NEW YEAR PATRIOTIC PURCHASERS! KEEP BUYING AMERICAN!

What can we expect in 2011 as Americans who are experiencing a DEPRESSION in the economy which has resulted in record foreclosures of HOMES resulting in record breaking HOMELESS, defaults on STUDENT LOANS, joblessness, A REDUCTION OF SALARIES and BROKEN UNIONS, and you know the rest?



WE KNOW HOW BAD IT IS! And we often feel powerless. BUT THERE IS ONE WAY TO GO and that is UP. And there is a way that you can make an IMPACT even when you don't have much income yourself!



In this era of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS you can STILL make every attempt to BUY AMERICAN! Doing so preserves jobs, not just in MANUFACTURING, but in TRUCKING, and in RETAIL and WHOLESALE SALES, which leads to REAL ESTATE!



EVERY AMERICAN MADE PRODUCT YOU PURCHASE maintains and improves our economy!

NEW HOMELESS AND LESS MONEY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES

We are upset and outraged to know that the HOMELESS POPULATION of the United States is increasingly families and those who have lost homes and apartments, people who have always been good citizens and worked but who now have their credit ruined, not because they overspent and were silly, but because they lost their work, or were underemployed for a long time.

We run a lot of posters from the World War II era here at Patriotic Purchase, a time we believe that Americans sacrificed and pulled together, were united in the war effort, and believed in their country. THE GREAT RECESSION WITH NO END we are living in is often compared to the GREAT DEPRESSION but now we have some social services people then did not have. OR DO WE?

We have social services that are being cut drastically. Many families taking in members who have lost homes and apartments. Where this will end, no one seems to know.


WHEN YOU PASS A PERSON ON THE STREET, in a COFFEE HOUSE, in a LIBRARY, or any other place that homeless people seek shelter and bathrooms during the day, please do not assume that they did something terrible to be punished with this. MANY OF THEM ARE DECENT PEOPLE IN TERRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES.


See these people and let if fuel your desire to buy products and services MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

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