"Stuff I Like" Sunday: Charitable Clicking

I really meant to donate $100 to the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Seriously. I was gonna drop it off at the post office on my way to deliver the canned goods to the homeless shelter ... after I took the household items to the battered women's refuge and dropped off the kids' outgrown stuff at the Salvation Army. But wouldn't you know - my car was loaded down with all this change that I collected door-to-door for the Make-A-Wish Foundation last week during the neighborhood cleanup, and so I got a flat tire, and ... uh ...

Okay, you got me. That's a total crock. I am soooo not the charitable giver I should be. It isn't that I don't have good intentions: I would love to donate money and time and effort and stuff to every worthy cause out there. It's just that ... well, you see, I ... I, uh ...

... I have no excuse, really. Oy.

(Note to self: must improve level of altruistic generosity.)

Lucky for me, though (and you, if you're like me, which you probably are - otherwise the world's problems would be a lot closer to solved), you can do some easy, painless, and fun charitable giving without even peeling your ass from the computer chair. Now that's what I call a win-win situation. Some, like FreeRice.com, are fun games you can play (indulge your inner nerd by answering questions in categories like vocabulary, art, chemistry, and other brain-bending stuff) and the more correct answers you get, the more food their sponsors will donate. Others, like The Hunger Site and its affiliates and Care2 Click-to-Donate, just involve a few seconds of your time - you click on a button and presto! You've donated to a worthy cause - using somebody else's money! (And as anybody who has ever a. been a teenager or b. fantasized about having a wealthy sugar daddy can attest, nothing spends as good as somebody else's funds.)

These are awesome, no-commitment, absolutely free and absolutely simple ways to help. You know I love me some awesome, no-commitment, simple, free stuff, y'all. So click on the links to share the goodwill - do it every day if you can - and tell a friend ... or ten!