hannamyluv - 10:55 pm on Dec 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

Your right, Brett. Money from swag gifts did not fund this. But does that matter? I want to know where making money meant you had to give money. How many "I make 6 figures (plus)" website owners around here are giving anything back, even .02%? And that's ok because it is their money, but then we need to acknowledge that when they do, they have done good.

Call me granola, that is just how I am.

Budgets are directly related to companies corporate giving. Maybe they don't say swag = charitable giving, but they do say hey, we have a little more money, so we can give charitably.

I always hated that people discounted MS's giving as well. They don't have to give a cent. that is the point. And honestly, can any of us say we have donated as much? Even percent wise?

This year has been a hard one on many I knew and amazing for myself and my very close own. I was able to help out alot of people because of my adsense income. That was a gift in itself. So the fact that I did not get a light up funky radio with a Google logo may or may not have been the reason that they gave, but it sure as hell helped just a little for their bean counters to say that they had enough excess cash laying around so they could do so.