We all get save-the-kids! mailers, and most of us have received the kind with the nickel or the quarter enclosed, for added effect.
But it never occurred to us how stupid this approach is until The Denver Egotist pointed it out:
If your envelope line reads “A Nickel Could Save A Child’s Life!” and you not only enclose the aforementioned nickel, but spend a few more of them popping it in the post, you’ve just fucked yourselves and the importance of the message.
For those of us that have already passed precious shekels to a charity, it really leaves you wondering how much of that cash was recycled as nickels for the trash heap. But who knows, maybe this works, and we’ve been doing ourselves a great disservice by hoarding for retirement. What’s that proverb? It takes money to make money?
