Comments on: A Plea for the Menu for Hope http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/ My Stomach and the World. Food, Recipes, Travel and Photography by Sara Rosso. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judith in Umbria http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-22735 Judith in Umbria Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:15:28 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/#comment-22735 Sara, I have been writing on a different prize each day but one. I plan to continue. These prizes are so great that it makes for good blog fodder! Jeffo, I am really touched! Thank you! Sara, I have been writing on a different prize each day but one. I plan to continue. These prizes are so great that it makes for good blog fodder!

Jeffo, I am really touched! Thank you!

]]> By: Jeff http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-22654 Jeff Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:04:39 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/#comment-22654 Hey don't do too much advertising. I just donated on your basket again this year and Judith's cooking lesson. I also couldn't resist the chocolate bars and had to put one towards that without even reading what it was. I didn't win last year and I want to win this year. It's not about the donating, it's about winning!!! ;) Jeff Hey don’t do too much advertising. I just donated on your basket again this year and Judith’s cooking lesson. I also couldn’t resist the chocolate bars and had to put one towards that without even reading what it was. I didn’t win last year and I want to win this year. It’s not about the donating, it’s about winning!!! ;)

Jeff

]]> By: Mark http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-22618 Mark Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:22:22 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/#comment-22618 Hi Sara, I am with Pim on this. Things like this are almost always back-loaded -- especially when there is a prize to be had, it is just human nature to delay as well. To be honest, given the current charitable state of things in the last 18 months, reaching last years goal could actually be seen as an improvement. Giving in around the world, and in the US in particular, is dramatically declining with people's personal economic expectations. The nice thing is that if trends hold, worst economic times tend to have reverse effect on giving as the realization that person wealth and satisfaction is usually product of expanded charity to others. In other words, study after study says that having wealth ultimately is a reward and a product of giving to charity (time and money) that the other way around. It just takes harder times for people to remember that. I have always thought the real reward in the Menu for Hope would be for each and every prize winner to not claim their prize and ask to have it given to yet another charity local to the prize donator -- now that would be a really economic/charitable multiplier effect. Hi Sara,

I am with Pim on this. Things like this are almost always back-loaded — especially when there is a prize to be had, it is just human nature to delay as well.

To be honest, given the current charitable state of things in the last 18 months, reaching last years goal could actually be seen as an improvement. Giving in around the world, and in the US in particular, is dramatically declining with people’s personal economic expectations. The nice thing is that if trends hold, worst economic times tend to have reverse effect on giving as the realization that person wealth and satisfaction is usually product of expanded charity to others.

In other words, study after study says that having wealth ultimately is a reward and a product of giving to charity (time and money) that the other way around. It just takes harder times for people to remember that.

I have always thought the real reward in the Menu for Hope would be for each and every prize winner to not claim their prize and ask to have it given to yet another charity local to the prize donator — now that would be a really economic/charitable multiplier effect.

]]> By: Deirdré Straughan http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-22555 Deirdré Straughan Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:34:02 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/12/14/a-plea-for-the-menu-for-hope/#comment-22555 I actually went through all the steps to figure out which prizes I wanted to bid on etc. etc, then gave up when I saw they wouldn't take PayPal. The last site I tried to use my credit card on refused it and I'm travelling and don't have time or energy to figure out why, and I loathe filling out lots of forms only to be refused at the end. So I like PayPal a lot - no unexpected last-minute hassles. I actually went through all the steps to figure out which prizes I wanted to bid on etc. etc, then gave up when I saw they wouldn’t take PayPal. The last site I tried to use my credit card on refused it and I’m travelling and don’t have time or energy to figure out why, and I loathe filling out lots of forms only to be refused at the end. So I like PayPal a lot – no unexpected last-minute hassles.

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