So this isn't sitting right with me and I'm going to need your opinion on something because I'm torn on how I feel about it.
So basically on the 18th of December, all the toys I had left over that I had been picking up for up to a year and stuff like that, I bagged them all up and I took them to my local B&M which was a drop off point for the cash for kids toy appeal thing over everyone would call it.
With the understanding that the 18th was the last date that anyone could donate and then after that they were going to get picked up and obviously given out to the kids for the 25th of December.
Do you get what I mean?
Literally it was Christmas which was the whole point of that toy appeal.
So tell me now, why did I go up to my local B&M yesterday which was the 26th of December Boxing Day and the same toys that I had donated on the 18th of December were still sat in the same trolley that I had put them in and they hadn't been collected?
I just don't understand that one now and that just isn't sitting right with me anyway because I give them toys on the basis that they were going to get given to kids for Christmas that weren't going to have anything.
And now them kids that I would have benefited from them toys that I donated, I'd still woke up on Christmas without nothing.
But then this is the point I don't get.
Like they were coming all over the radio, they were everywhere.
Literally that Mission for Christmas thing was all over my TikTok everywhere saying there's so many thousand kids they need presents for blah blah blah.
Well, are you sure?
Like literally here?
Because like I just don't get it now.
Obviously how many thousands of kids went without because you didn't bother picking them up?
Do you get what I mean?
Like I just don't get it and this situation isn't sitting right with me because now obviously it's after Christmas.
It's after the old point of the toy appeal.
And like what are the chances now?
Like obviously it's not just my local B&M is probably not being picked up.
There's probably hundreds of like drop off points and collection points that aren't being collected.
Do you get what I mean?
And like it's just not sitting right with me at all because like now I feel like them toys that I've donated, whereas I could have donated them to somewhere else.
I add another charity I was ready to donate to but then obviously I change my mind.
I thought I'd donate to that one instead thinking I was doing good.
And now like are them toys even going to reach them kids?
Like I don't, I bet they're not.
Like literally chances of them toys actually reaching the kids that needed them.
And especially for the day that they needed them as well.
Like literally it's pointless giving like toys to kids now after Christmas.
Do you get what I mean?
Like the old point of giving them was to give them for Christmas.
Christmas Day is the day that the kids expected.
Do you get what I mean?
That's why people were donating.
And I just don't know how I feel about the situation.