Helping when you can

 Many people I know donate to their local foodbanks nationwide especially during these times when so many cannot afford to feed their families and pay rent or mortgages too. So, often people do without food or heat to a greater or lesser degree worldwide during the cold parts of the year or air conditioning during the hot parts of the year too. 

Even though I along with most everyone suffered a lot with cold and heat in the 1950s we all thought this was pretty normal to not have air conditioning in cars in the 1950s and even into the 1960s. I think the first car we had with air conditioning was a 1965 Chevrolet Gold Impala that my mother mostly drove at that time. Even our new 1960 Mercury Station wagon I don't believe had air conditioning.

And my 1968 Camaro did not have air conditioning nor my 1965 and later 1966 VW bugs which got around 30 miles per gallon then when gas was 17 to 20 cents a gallon for regular in 1969.

So, donating to your local food banks like for example, where I live if you donate to a local food bank local businesses have promised to match whatever people donate. 

For example, where I live if I donate 100 or 1000 dollars to a local food bank businesses will match that money with 100 or 1000 dollars too for a total of 200 or 2000 dollars being donated.

So, maybe one of the most important donations you can make during this season is food or heating to those you want to survive this winter in some way.

Happy Holidays!

Note: I can remember driving through 110 to 115 degrees with my father in the 1950s and sometimes my mother too where I would get headaches from the heat for 2 to 3 days afterwards. So, in the long run this made me more susceptible to heat prostration. Also, I have very thick growing and fine Scottish hair that is great if it is cold but can make you pass out if it is too warm. And when I used to get heat prostration I often wore my hair long as it was in style in the 1970s and 1980s at that time too. So, I had heat prostration several times and learned I really had to be careful in weather anywhere above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures like this are common in California inland during the summers by the way, especially in southern California in the deserts.