I collect toy donations. These are the 6 biggest mistakes I see.

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I help parents provide holiday gifts for their children. Here are the 6 biggest toy donation mistakes I see.

in Steubenville, Ohio, about collecting toys for the holidays and the mistakes her organization sees. It's been edited for length and clarity.

And a baby is so much more understanding! You can literally give a baby a balloon and they won't know the difference, but an older child will. Unless the organization you're donating to specifies to bring wrapped presents, leave the item unwrapped. When donors bring us wrapped items, we have to unwrap them to make sure that they're in good shape, appropriate, and check just what the item is before we can pass along to the recipients.

We want to make sure as much as possible that the parents of these children get to sign the cards, whether they decide to give the gift from them or from Santa Claus. But we do not believe that our names should be on these presents. Even though we are Christians and model our organization after Servant of God, Dorothy Day, who founded the Catholic Worker Movement, the holidays aren't a time to attach an agenda.

Once, a donor said:"The child can just pretend the other pieces are there." But that's not OK. It's not a materialistic thing; it's a human thing. No one needs to be grateful for someone else's castoffs. We get a lot of criticism for this one, but if a child wants an American Girl Doll, they don't want the knockoff.

 

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