I noticed that the warehouse for Toys for Tots in my area was in Eagan, very close to the Feed My Starving Children warehouse and the U Line packaging warehouse where I buy my ebay supplies. I was curious to see the warehouse. I wondered how donations were coming in this year. I had some gifts for school age kids and teens that I had gotten various places.
So my daughter and I drove out there. There were lots of cute Marines there, for sure. I asked to see the warehouse area and saw maybe 30 people evidently sorting toys. It looked like there were toys that had lots of duplicates. I offered that we could help, but he said they had run out of toys to sort. It seemed that there were also groups of people there to pick up toys for their organizations.
Not long ago the Minneapolis area had "Santa Anonymous" and there was a column in the Star Tribune that gave a daily update on their dire needs, how long you had to bring gifts in, where the drop offs were etc. Then it was just Toys for Tots which is national. I kind of miss the updates! We all know it's a real tough time for families and I just wonder if it is all coming together.
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