Cure for the holiday blues: reach out to a soldier

Do your crazy relatives drive you over the edge this time of year? Don’t have as much money as you’d like? Having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments? Wish you were thinner? etc.? etc.? etc.?

Put all of those things aside and visit the www.anysoldier.com website. Find a soldier who will spend the holidays far away from his/her family this year and write them a letter of thanks.

If this makes you feel a little better try going one step further and send them a DVD or some cookies or a good paperback book you just finished reading.

You have to give the site your name, home address and email address. The organization then emails you the soldier’s mailing address.

If you send a package most of the time you have to mail it from the post office unfortunately because you’ll need to fill out a very short form for customs. It only takes a minute or so, although I can’t always vouch for the line at the post office!

If you send a letter you can just send it from your house for the regular US postage rates.

Any Soldier, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization so you can deduct your donations from your taxes. (Keep your receipts!)

I sent a used Sylvester Stallone DVD to a Naval ship this morning along with a brief note. (The descriptions on the website will tell you what the soldiers are requesting.) It was a DVD that I was going to give to the thrift store anyway and it only cost $1.80 to send.

Such a simple and inexpensive gesture for soldiers who give us so very much!

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