No Toys For Tots – Donations Down This Year

I just finished reading this press release on giving this year. I’m not surprised – Toys For Tots is Running Short This Year. Every time I see a charity sponsored toy collection bin…it’s empty.

Somehow this doesn’t surprise me. In the past, I blithely picked up an extra toy while shopping at Toys R Us or Target and dropped it in a donation bin. This year I’m not shopping at Toys R Us or Target for toys. This year I’m buying fewer toys. This year places I buy toys don’t have collection bins.

This year I’m AFRAID to drop a toy in the collection bin…what if I end up donating a toy that contains lead????

By the way….what safeguards do these charities have in place to ensure that they aren’t distributing lead, cadmium, arsenic, and phthalates ridden toys?

Well…many thrift shops are not accepting used toys aren’t accepting toys. But, what about new toys?

Many parents are leery now of buying any new toys made in China for their children, afraid it will end up on the recall list any day now. We also, well, me anyway are afraid to buy a toy made in China for charity. This moves the whole donation process from an afterthought to a full blown project.

I suspect charities have their lead testing kits running at full speed. I hope so anyway. Meanwhile, I guess I’ll buy an armload of books at The Scholastic warehouse sale I’m attending next week and keep them in my car to drop in the many charity bins I pass each day.

Check out your local book store for giving opportunities too. Neither Barnes and Noble or Borders seems to have an easy to find online site for donations at this time but, maybe that will change in the coming weeks!

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