Harvest festival

Riversong

Work are collecting food for local poor elderly people.

I want to contribute and I have several Asda and smartprice branded food items. The thing is a few of my colleagues are very brand concious so I know there will be comments.

Is it disrespectful for me to donate these items? Bearing in mind at home we only eat/can afford smartprice. Or shall i sit this one out?

I would love to donate brands but sadly we can barely afford to exist at the moment.

jackyann

With all charitable donations, you should contribute what seems reasonable to you. We all donate different amounts, depending on our disposable income, our warmth of feeling towards the charity (or the collector!) and what we perceive as reasonable.
I think that people who are "brand concious" are just being rather snobby - and the best advice is to ignore them.
I also think that some others at work will be grateful if you ignore them, and set a good example by donating what seems reasonable & sensible to you.
If there are any comments, again, best ignored, and if need be, make a complaint!

I would add that IMO it is disrespectful to donate items that are unlikely to be wanted. I always remember making up the Harvest Festival baskets one year, and realised that someone had donated what appeared to be the left-overs of a Fortnum's Xmas hamper. I especially remember wondering if anyone in their right mind would want the "pineapple chunks in creme de menthe"!!!! Asda baked beans would have been much better!!!!!!

Riversong

I donated my items! A beef in ale sauce, rice, bolognaise sauce and some stock cubes

I'm going to get a few other bits when I do my shop.

I agree, I don't get it when people put rubbish in as donations. I just thought of things like stock cubes being good as a multi use item, rice is filling and versitile etc.