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WTH is with this crap now?

Started noticing the other day, wife was watching something and an ad came on. I heard it in the background or something. Humane Society??

Started seeing it on Shriners, St Jude, and 3-4 others.

Did some ad agency come up with that particular figure as being unoffensive to most folks? And all the "non-profits" are using the same agency?

Is there a special tax reason for them or the donor that $19/mo works best?

maybe it's like the 99cents tacked on to the price of everything..................................... meaningless?

Tunnels to Towers hits you up for $11/ mo……

never heard of them.

maybe the big players want $19

I thought this was gonna be about the wife's beer budget.

nondrinker

she does fused art glass.

I don't ask about that budget

happy wife, happy life an alla that mess

Probably the "less than 20 dollars" as you mentioned. Line the x.99.

Probably has something to do with taxes.

......take that $19.......and go get one lap dance a month. Even though you won't have $1 for a cigarette afterwards.

A man could give $19 a month to the NRA...

And the NRA would spend $19.01 asking for more.

Truth?

Yes or No...

LOL

Sad but true and for another $50 they might even include a Chinese pocketknife.

The ASPCA adds are criminal but the worst adds are for balance-o-nature. They ought to hang his sorry butt from a bodark tree.

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Its a psychological thing

Little bits a money add up,small amounts that don't seem like much. A few years a go when I turned 65 I gotta letter from some financial organization. They had been appointed to distribute retirement funds to people who.had worked for this company but no longer did. That was me I'd made several years of contributions to the plan before I moved on. I 'd forgot about it cause they just took it out of your check. So they told me my benefit was $40 dollars a month or a lump sum of several thousand. I am in pretty good health so I elected for the 40 a month. Well I was telling a buddy about it and he busted out laughing saying 40 dollars? Jfc don't get excited and piss down the side of your leg , shaking his head and laughing at me. I looked at him and said well that's 2 cases of pbr or 2 12packs of import and a pint or 2 1.75 liter bottles a whiskey. He was still laughing and shaking his head when I said to him" now tell me again who is paying for your booze for the rest of your life" he shut up damn quick at that point yessir never hurts to get a little chunk a money.

Yes. My practice is to mentally pencil out any monthly deal to a year's worth of donations. Pretty quickly I can afford a new rifle.

Shoulda taken the lump sum , Brother Bob

ASPCA was $19/mo. Only about 2% of that goes to local shelters so you might as well give money to the local shelters that don't have an anti-hunting agenda.

I've been seeing commercials begging donations for Planned Parenthood. Never saw those before. I guess killing babies is expensive.

The shivering one-eyed dogs and cats in the ASPCA commercial were bad enough.

And the local shelter(s) don't have a 'leader' (pres, CEO or whatever) drawing a $1MM paycheck and euthanizing probably more animals than they find homes for . . .

Well, I too have wondered why$19 is the majic number. But if it is I found a bargain. For only $12 a month you can help save the Mongilian snow Leopard.


OTOH, for a one time cost of $15.99 you can get a video of little Babbu hauling water to his family in Africa. He does it on a bike with bent wheels, no brakes, & mostly down hill on the way backwith 10 gallons of water.

It's fuggin halarious.

I noticed the same, several “charities” want you to sign up for only $19 per month.

I don't know how you can feed a starving Jew in some eastern block country for $19.99 but the commercial claims you can.

ACLU is doing the same chit $19 p/m. ACLU been hitting the lesser tier antenna tv channels pretty hard. Book bans in schools <graphic homosexual tales>, limiting voting rights <voter id>, women's reproductive health <murder babies>, homosexual rights.

$19 let's them take care of 250 animals,













And keep a few bucks.

Same reason that people buy a car based on a monthly payment and not an out the door price.

We give charity one week a year and it was this week. Never know how the year will end up until Christmas or thereabouts.

F the human society anti gun anti hunting.
Wouldn't give them a penny

The reason for the $19.xx a month is the IRS rule that requires them to provide receipts for annual receipts greater than $250. Less reporting obligations

I've noticed the same thing.All these non-profits are all asking for the same amount,"Just $19.00 a month".This isn't an accident.Sounds way too organized.I wouldn't give them a nickle.

$29 in our area

Only you can save shivering wet dogs, we need 3,000 new members of the Aspca this next month

In the arms of an angel…

I round it off to $20 for St. Jude &Shriners, DAV, Salvation Army & Toys for Tots get the same amount ($240), but in one check just before Christmas. Church gets a lot more. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

if true, that certainly makes sense now as to why every friggen one of them wants the same amount.


they won't get it from me. I'm resolving to send the CA rifle and pistol org, GOA, SAF, and maybe a couple of others an anonymous donation this new year.

Anonymous as can be to try to keep them from bugging me forever to send more.

Child fund is a good cause.

Years ago every gimmic thing for sale on the TV ads was "yours for only $19.95!!!".

Now, it's "Five easy payments of $19.95!!!"..........

A strange thing happened. I got a letter the other day from the NRA extoling the organization's record and efforts to protect our 2nd amendment rights. The letter was asking that I include the NRA in my estate planning (will) and offered to help me word the gift bequest properly. I suppose they did not wish to have the NRA portion contested successfully in the event of irate would be heirs.

The strangest thing was that the letter was sent from the president of the NRA and Wayne LaPierre was not mentioned nor listed on the letterhead anywhere.

They offered a really sweet deal if the bequest was over $1 million. I threw it away. I'll keep my life membership but they get no more money.