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charkee
Joined 2015
Posts: 1038

Just say no.

9 years ago

I have learned (and luckily my lessons have not been hard ones) just to say no to anybody's sob stories. I don't give money for any reason.

I don't mind helping the poor, my home has been converted into a hospital a couple of times. I will treat the ill for free. (my bedrooms are kept locked and I don't have anything valuable that they can carry away in their purse or pockets). I don't use meds, and that saves me a lot of legal complications. If they need meds I send them to a medical doctor.

Both my wife and I can say no without guilt; we do so firmly and without rudeness. People catch on pretty quick that we are not their money bags.

We actually practiced saying no and I needed more training than my wife ;)

I owe these people nothing.

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Just say no.