I was talking to my friend B today and she was telling me how she’s going to be splurging money on this brand of makeup because (and this was her justification) “even though it’s expensive, a portion will go to support research!” That annoyed me, for so many reasons.<\/p>\n
It’s one thing to purchase a product (that you were going to buy anyways) and just happen to have the fringe benefit of some<\/em> money (very little of it) going towards a good cause. It’s another thing to go out of your way to go and drop a lot of money on something just because the company wants to make a nice charity donation and get a tax write-off. What kind of justification is it for you to go and buy something ‘because’ money will go towards something?<\/p>\n If you want to support something (and that’s how my friend B was making it sound like), then go ahead and donate money to that organization directly<\/em>. They’re not going to care if you just donate $2 or $50, because non-profit organizations and organizations that do research need the money. But using the fact that a company’s donating $0.10 for every $10 that you spend in their store to justify your purchases (because a small<\/em> portion goes towards research, small being 1%) is a very poor reason for your purchase in the first place.<\/p>\n Just own up to the fact that yes, you want to get this product and it happens<\/em> to support research. Don’t expect people to think that you’re being selfless when all you really want is to get new eyeshadow.<\/p>\n Maybe I’m a touch cynical, but at least I’ll be honest. I don’t buy things just because it ‘supports’ a cause. I buy things because I want or need them. And if I believe in a cause, I’ll donate money to them directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was talking to my friend B today and she was telling me how she’s going to be splurging money on this brand of makeup because (and this was her justification) “even though it’s expensive, a portion will go to support research!” That annoyed me, for so many reasons. It’s one thing to purchase a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}