To ease her heart (and anyone else's out there), I would have done the same.

It's dirty, yes, but most would use this to satisfy their vicious needs.

She's just a poor parent, willing to dirt her paws just to make her child's dreams alive in this Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas to y'all, by the way.
Keep your dreams alive.

mikew said:
To ease her heart (and anyone else's out there), I would have done the same.

It's dirty, yes, but most would use this to satisfy their vicious needs.

She's just a poor parent, willing to dirt her paws just to make her child's dreams alive in this Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas to y'all, by the way.
Keep your dreams alive.

It’s hard to say no to something like that. Maybe she could have started a little gift wrapping side business with the complete transparency that it was to give her boy a Christmas present, but either way, at least people got something out of their money.

And at the end of it all, her share of the money did go towards a family in need - her own.

mmmmmm... cookie...

mikew said:
To ease her heart (and anyone else's out there), I would have done the same.

It's dirty, yes, but most would use this to satisfy their vicious needs.

She's just a poor parent, willing to dirt her paws just to make her child's dreams alive in this Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas to y'all, by the way.
Keep your dreams alive.

That's a dangerous line of thinking. Stealing for survival is one thing, stealing for a child's present is completely different.

Even setting aside issues of integrity, if you are going to risk fines and/or prison, it should be a matter of life and death.

aethelred said:
That's a dangerous line of thinking. Stealing for survival is one thing, stealing for a child's present is completely different.

Even setting aside issues of integrity, if you are going to risk fines and/or prison, it should be a matter of life and death.

Stealing and deceiving are two different things and each has many levels of interpretations.
She's not stealing someone's money; she's receiving from them, from a simple, honest work. Having it labeled as "donation to charity" is dirty but they are no thief. Liars but no thiefs.