I am on permanent disability, which means I have NO money to spare. (Actually, I don't always have enough for food, medical and heat/electricity in the same month.)
I still feel the need to give back and contribute to causes I believe in. I just have to find different ways to do it now.
My best friend of over 23 years recently had a lumpectomy for breast cancer. She is apparently OK now, but still going thru follow-ups for the foreseeable future.
I remembered hearing about a way to donate your hair to make wigs for people who have lost theirs due to chemo. My hair is 27" long. I called her to ask if she knew the name of the charity. She told me to go to http://www.locksoflove.org/
I checked it out and found that they specialize in wigs for children. They won't take mine because it's grey. (I started turning grey when I was 22.) This made perfect sense to me. No kid wants grey hair.
So, I searched for another organization and found http://www.pantene.com/en-US/beautiful_lengths.jspx
They make wigs for adults. I read thru all the requirements only to find they won't take my hair either because it is more than 5% grey. Apparently, they mix a bunch of donations together to get enough of the right color to make a whole wig and they say all grey hairs are different. They don't take dye the same and fade quicker.
This is all well and good, but I think if I was bald, I'd rather have grey hair than none at all.
What do you all think? If your choice was between bald or grey, which would you pick? I really am interested. Maybe, if there are enough people who would accept grey, we can get them to change the rules. Surely, I am not the only person in this position.
It truly upsets me that I can't do this.
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