We all get the bug to do something good for others during the holidays, and Lands’ End Big Warm-up is my charity of choice this holiday season.
Lands’ End, together with the National Coalition for the Homeless, will be providing gently used coats to the more than 3.5 million homeless, men, women, and children in the United States. The more coats we donate the more people can benefit.
Now through November 30th, take your gently used winter coats to any of the 252 Lands’ End Shops at Sears or the 13 Lands’ End Inlets and receive 20% off the purchase of a new coat for each coat donated. It’s a win-win situation that takes very little effort on our part to help people struggling with homelessness thsi winter.
Please leave a comment if you plan on donating to the Big Warm-up this winter!
The Debt Free Manifesto is taken from My Super-Charged Life because it deserves reiterating -and I totally hope to experience all ten reasons why it’s awesome to live debt free before I die.
The Debt Free Manifesto
You can spend more quality time with your family, instead of on the job trying to pay off things you enjoyed yesterday.
Your marriage is less likely to be marred by the destructive nature of stress and money fights, directly related to spending more than you make, month after month.
Through your wonderful example, your ability to teach your children a more responsible and sustainable way to manage money.
It frees up your paychecks to do other more important things like: saving, building wealth, and my personal favorite—GIVING!
It’s never cool when someone else owns the fruit of your labor before you even labor.
You can enjoy the additional freedom of not having to worship at the altar of the “supposedly” all powerful FICO.
It feels WAY BETTER to sleep in a paid for home, walk on paid for grass, drive a paid for car, and eat already paid for food.
Being debt free gives you more options in life, and opens up doors that society has told you couldn’t be opened. (Psst…don’t listen to them)
The act of becoming debt free neutralizes your natural attraction and desire to “need” more STUFF, or at least provides some restraint—until you actually have the money to buy something.
A survey done by Forbes magazine states, 75% of the Forbes 400 (the richest 400 people in America) said the best way to build wealth is to become and stay debt-free.
I lost my receipt, so I’m winging this one!
