What a beautiful story, Ellen! And so insightful in terms of best products to donate. Sometimes instead of choosing products to put in the donation bin I buy the prepared donation packages. I’ll pay more attention to what’s in them before doing that again.

I’ve been the single parent who unexpectedly received a huge Christmas food back hamper one year when someone gave them my name. Such a huge blessing. I’ll never forget how deeply grateful I was.

Thank you for sharing this. Too bad more people don’t think about donations year round instead of just in “the giving season.” Shouldn’t that be every season??