The Real Cost of Ronald McDonald House

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9 ай бұрын

Today we discuss the Ronald McDonald House Charity and Can Tab donation. How much is a can tab worth? Who is Uncle O’Grimacy? And why do I have fond memories of digging through trash cans for garbage? All of this and more will be answered.
SOURCES:
History of Ronald McDonald House - rmhcswfl.org/rmhc-history/?cm...
Ronald McDonald House Accountability Rating - www.charitynavigator.org/ein/...
RMHC - rmhc.org/about-us/our-impact?...
Can Tab Donations - www.rmhccoastalempire.org/?cm...
Mcdonalds Corp - corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpm....
Mcdonalds in Relation to RMHC - www.rmhca.org/who-we-are/mcdo...
Customer donations to RMHC - www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/co....
RMDH 2022 revenue number and McDonald’s donation - corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpm....
RMDH Financial Statement 2022 - rmhc.org/about-us/media-center
RMDH Donation Split - paddockpost.com/2015/11/25/wh....

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@MadisonLaBerge 9 ай бұрын

obsessed with this almost as much as i was obsessed with collecting tabs. luckily my parents had a diet coke addiction and i was fiend for pizza parties

@benjaminmichael5719 2 ай бұрын

Dude! Your video relieved me of some of my guilt involving pop tabs. (my situation is kinda bizarre.) I live in Michigan, where cans can be recycled for 10¢ a piece. I also have a liquid diet comprised of diet cola addiction, and weekend beer drinking. I ALSO want to get into the hobby of melting metals to do metal casting, once I have a living situation that'll allow me to have my own furnace setup (you can see where this is going). During the pandemic, when I was watching lots of DIY hobby videos like the rest of the world, I saw videos where people were melting down cans. Many people in the comments pointed out that soda cans were a terrible source of metal due to all the impurities and low yield. Using cans themselves were an even worse deal for me, since I wanted to get the 10¢ deposit back from every can I bought. That's when I realized I could just snag the tab, and the bottles/cans return machines wouldn't know the difference. That's when my plan went into motion. I quickly adopted the habit of snagging my tab when I was done with a pop or a beer, and putting it in that little coin pocket in my jeans. Then I started occasionally asking to grab the tab off my friends' cans. Eventually I became this social freak where I started collecting tabs from recycle bins of my friends and family. Then it got to the point where I had to fight the urge to ask strangers for the same thing (there's some lines that probably shouldn't be crossed). So yeah, over the past 4 years, my coin-dish of tabs soon became a mason jar... and mason jars became totes. After collecting so many tabs, people started saying to me, "you should just donate them to the Ronald McDonald house." and I would respond by telling them that I planned on melting them down and making some sort of small statue; the idea of making a shelf ornament made entirely of pop tabs was hilarious to me. The responses would range from "isn't that kind of selfish?" to the understandable "that's kinda weird." Either way, I've remained determined despite my self awareness of how bizarre my quest is. My dad had a different response from most people. His was, "You know son, aluminum scrap is really cheap. You can get better quality aluminum, and in larger quantity, from almost any other source." That was one of the first hints I got, that maybe using those tabs for my own purposes wasn't as selfish as most people were trying to subtly shame me into thinking. So yeah. Your video sorta brought all the pieces together for me. Those can tabs are pretty much negligible. I can donate $5 to the RMHC and continue my odd quest, guilt-free, to make a little metal statue entirely out of pop tabs. Love your videos BTW. I hope you get more traction in the near future!

@Moe_Posting_Chad 2 ай бұрын

I do not donate to 501(C)(3) charities. They are scams. There is nothing selfish about withholding your property form a thief.