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Basically you’re relying on the FLGS owner at the end of the day. It was some years ago now but I seem to remember one Package went to a customer of the store who had lost his job a couple of months before Xmas (he was known to the owner, and had been buying stuff for his son prior in the store). A second went to a friend of his who’s son was friends with his son who’s Parents couldn’t afford them (as his Parents just didn’t earn enough and had a hard time making ends meet). The third Package I don’t know. Sure there’s many ways that this could get ripped off at the end of the day, but you just got to hope for the best and rely on ppl behaving in the spirit of the season. As the FLGS had added some paints and brushes to each set it DID fill me with a bit of confidence that the owner was performing with due diligence in getting these out to the best people he could find. Other options could be small Children’s Homes, HOWEVER you need to basically be able to gift to each child in the home (or it’s not fair on the others). Or perhaps this Xmas you might have a gaming buddy who’s lost his job (or is due to in the next few weeks), who would perhaps have some of the pressure lifted off them if the kids are interested in “Dad’s hobby” and you are looking to just get rid of stuff that you aren’t going to use (but in the eyes of a pre-teen such things are golden in their eyes). Perhaps even here in BoW the members could band together to find players they know off who are going to be in a dire situation over the holidays and matching them up with members who are looking to off load stuff that’s collecting dust on a shelf (again the possibility of getting ripped off arises, but if your that bothered about that happening them ppl will never get around to doing something like this (you got to put your trust in ppl at the end of the day, and it IS Xmas after all 😀 ).