Here’s to Sally Ann
The resolved are at it again.
The nation’s gyms are operating at capacity. Weight loss, self improvement, philanthropy, fitness: January is the most idealistic month, even if by the third week our will power has waned. So here’s the single easiest thing you can do to keep with your program of a Better You in 2012: This week, donate a bag of clothes to the Salvation Army.
They need them and I bet you don’t. Besides, with all that time on the treadmill, you’re going to need a smaller size, right?
According to Scott Gilmore, marketing co-ordinator for the organization’s national retail operation, post-Christmas is the Sally Ann’s lowest ebb for inventory. Like every other store, they get cleaned out over the holidays. Unlike other retailers, however, the Sally Ann doesn’t have the spring line coming through the loading bay unless you and I are involved.
I’ve always admired The Salvation Army. It may have to do with having a terrific elementary school teacher who was in the Army, as they say. (David Hawks, I salute you, wherever you are.) Then again, how could you not be fascinated by a movement that was launched by someone who started out in life as a pawn broker?
