I've made a point of donating to Child's Play every year since they started it. I donated $10 through the CAG raffle earlier, but the PA guys really came through for me this year so I made another, $45 donation tonight.
Back in October I pre-ordered their Season One DVD as a Christmas gift for my girlfriend; the entire office signed all the preorders. I had it shipped to my family's home because it was going to be arriving while I was visiting her (our gradschools are about 1000 miles apart). I had my family send the DVD out to me, along with about 15 of my favorite dvds and some clothing I'd left the last time I visited them. Unfortunately, UPS really screwed us and left the package on my porch while I was out of town-after expressly assuring us they wouldn't do so.
I got home from my trip to find a huge, empty box sitting on my porch. Someone had stolen everything...my clothes, my DVDs, a bunch of cookies and so forth my mother had sent along, and of course the PATV DVDs. UPS still hasn't resolved their part in it, and this happened almost a month ago.
Brian, the PA store guy, had another signed copy of the DVD in the mail the same night I got home. I offered to pay for another copy, but he did it gratis (even hit me with an unsigned copy while he was at it!) so I wanted to donate the cost of the purchase I didn't have to make, for the thing I never thought I'd have the chance of getting again. My lady got the DVD and was incredibly excited, and Christmas was saved!
Happy New Year's, folks.