{"id":21587,"date":"2022-09-14T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=21587"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:23:30","slug":"round-up-by-debbie-norrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/round-up-by-debbie-norrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Up by Debbie Norrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Norrell-Sept1522Cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21588\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Norrell-Sept1522Cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Norrell-Sept1522Cover.png 600w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Norrell-Sept1522Cover-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shopping is something I do for a living, and it\u2019s a wonderful thing. I\u2019m not sure when this started but, in many stores, I am being asked to round up my purchase amount and make a contribution to either the thrift store that I am shopping in (Goodwill) or to a charity that I\u2019m not familiar with. I would love to see the training document that these clerks are using. Are they instructed only to ask you to round up if it\u2019s a small amount of the purchase? For instance, the purchase amount comes to $14.75, and they ask you to round up to $15.00 you may think what is .25. think about it that is your .25 cents and what are you planning to do with it? I was in Macy\u2019s recently and was asked to round up while purchasing a Fitbit watch. I asked what was the name of the charity and who do they help? I got an answer that was not satisfactory. I had never heard of the charity, and the salesperson was a little too indifferent. On this occasion, I opted out and did not round up. I am a person that reports my charitable contributions on my income tax, and I like to have a paper trail. I\u2019m thinking and hoping that the amount that was going to the obscure charity would appear on my receipt. That means I have to keep all of those receipts to add up at income tax time and I have not had enough time to research the charity to make that snap discussion. I\u2019m sure you and the cashier might be saying it&#8217;s only .25, well it\u2019s my .25, and I want it in my pocket instead of yours. Just remember when asked to \u201cround up\u201d if you are not comfortable with it just say \u201cno\u201d and that \u201cno\u201d is a complete sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Email the columnist at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:debbienorrell@aol.com\">debbienorrell@aol.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/category\/lifestyles-with-debbie-norrell\/\"><strong>Click Here to View All \u201cLifestyles with Debbie Norrell\u201d Articles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RTM-and-DLC-Logos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20422 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RTM-and-DLC-Logos.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RTM-and-DLC-Logos.png 400w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RTM-and-DLC-Logos-300x75.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping is something I do for a living, and it\u2019s a wonderful thing. I\u2019m not sure when this started but, in many stores, I am being asked to round up my purchase amount and make a contribution to either the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/round-up-by-debbie-norrell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyles-with-debbie-norrell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:22:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}