do you volunteer for any organastion ?.....:-)  

I volunteer for just about everything someone asks me to do! I really need to learn the word "no" - I help out at my kids' schools, do PTA, coach soccer, direct children's theater, judge forensic competitions, and just pitch in wherever I can.

First, I must say a big THANK YOU to you and your daughter for volunteering at your local animal shelter! I'm sure it must be very heartbreaking and very rewarding, at the same time.

I'm pretty much housebound, but I do manage to do my part with the animal shelters. I collect old comforters, towels, sheets, etc. from people off of freecycle (the ones that are too stained or ragged to be used on beds anymore), cut them up, and sew them into dog/cat beds. A shelter volunteer comes by whenever I've got a bunch ready to take back. I also save all of the petfood, litter, and OTC pet medication, bleach, etc. coupons I get in the newspaper for them.

I think that is wonderful that you and your daughter volunteer for such a worthy cause. I always wanted to volunteer for something, but finding the time is a different story.

For the past eight years I've been volunteering at our local food bank. That's the only real organized volunteer work I do but I do volunteer for just about anything that is needed in the community and of course my church. Just this year I've started being the community coordinator for the county wide yard sale. I also like to make sure I'm available and on call for any need that may come up for anyone in the church. I no longer work so I like to do something to feel useful.
I think it's great that you and your daughter work with the animal shelter. I couldn't do that...I would end up with a house full of animals and I already have four dogs, each one with a slight medical issue. I have one with a breathing problem, one allergic to fleas, one with a deformed jaw and one with only three legs. I'm a sucker for dogs, it would be hard to see so many with out homes and not add more to my lot.

hi!!!

me and my beau are also volunteers..we've been in a rescue group for about 13 years now...we went under lots of trainings and it practically helped us in our day to day lives...i even landed on my current job beacause of the trainings i had in my volunteer group...being a volunteer is never easy..sometimes, when the group runs out of funds, we managed to dig into our own pockets just to get by and to just to make the organization work...right now, we are still hoping that we could find sponsors to get our ambulance back in the track again..(it has been down for a over a year now)..volunteerism gives us a different kind of high..try looking a a good cause to volunteer too and find more meaning to your exixtence..

Nothing right now, but in the past I have volunteered for the Bubel/Aiken foundation, which is an organization that mainstreams special needs kids in to regular schools and summer camps so that they can interact with non special needs children.

I love to volunteer my time when needed or asked. i volunteer my time to my daughters school, and classroom, my son's basketball team, and my daughters girls scout troop. and I love the rewards from it and the great feeling i have afterward. so any volunteering anyone can do for 1 or 2 things or places. it's worth it.

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Hi walkthetalk,

wow..that is a great job! I love doing that too!
Starting this Sunday, I will be working as a volunteer once a week only at the Hospital, I will be in the gift shop and they also rely only on volunteers to work with them!
I am excited at least, can share my time and I will also be meeting new friends!