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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/835717-X-Box-Points
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #1437803
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#835717 added December 8, 2014 at 11:36pm
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X Box Points
         A group of which I am a member does several projects for Christmas every year. We even have a treasury, and at the end of the year, after all expenses are evened up, we give all of what remains to the area food bank.

         We adopt kids from the local schools and get presents as one of our projects. This year they did the list a little differently. There are still the same number of kids, but more givers. So we didn't have to do clothing or big gifts. The last boy on the list was a 15 year old boy, who was assigned to me and one other lady. Besides clothes, his request was for X-box and/or I-tunes points. We're out of it when it comes to this stuff. Fortunately, there was a grandmother in the group who could almost explain it. My toy buddy asked, "How are we defining 'needy' these days, if the parents who ask for help can afford devices to use these and pay monthly fees?

         Good point. Maybe the money they have isn't budgeted very well, and that doesn't teach the kids any thing good. We did as we were instructed, and got the cards. However, we learned from a teenager, they are now just called X-box bucks, not points. So he should be plenty happy with his I-tunes and X-box.

         It makes me realize that a lot of us were "needy" when I was growing up, but we didn't know it. My parents never would have asked for help or accepted it if approached. And my family was pretty well-off compared to my country cousins. Everything is relative, I guess. Everyone wants to keep up with the head of the pack.

         I believe that doing good has its own rewards. Sometimes I fear that maybe doing "good" is more for us than the recipients.

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