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"  We all love to do something nice for ourselves like splurge on our favorite chocolates or get a pedicure every couple weeks. But, when you&amp;#039;ve had your fill - why not spend a little on someone else? Here, we&amp;#039;ve got six easy ways to for you to help someone in need.   1. Buy a meal. A little money can go a long way. For every dollar you donate to Feeding America (a domestic hunger-relief charity that assists more than 25 million low-income people), you&amp;#039;ll provide 10 pounds of food\u2014the equivalent of seven meals. Visit FeedingAmerica.org for more information.   2. Save for college. You may think $5 isn&amp;#039;t enough to get you on your way to saving, but Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com, says you should think again. &amp;quot;If you take $5 every week and put it into a 529 college savings plan earning 5% interest, at the end of 10 years you&amp;#039;ll have $3,371 painlessly saved for your child&amp;#039;s education,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s basically the cost of coffee and a bagel, and look how much more it gets you.&amp;quot;   3. Do a good deed. Feed the expiring parking meter of someone you don&amp;#039;t know, give your waitress an extra $5, or buy a coffee for the person standing behind you in line at the coffee shop. Random acts of kindness cost you little\u2014and make someone else&amp;#039;s day.   4. Help the environment. Don&amp;#039;t throw your empty printer cartridges in the garbage; they&amp;#039;ll end up in a landfill. At Walgreens stores you can refill cartridges with high-quality ink in minutes. The cost? $10 for black cartridges and $15 for color.   5. Stock your kid&amp;#039;s school. &amp;quot;Buy as many number 2 pencils as you can for your local school,&amp;quot; says Jill Hotchkiss of Sherman Oaks, California. For $10 you can get 96 pencils, 10 boxes of crayons or 18 glue sticks at Staples.com.   6. Host a giveback party. Invite your buddies over for a good cause. Serve appetizers or a light dinner and ask everyone to contribute $10 or $20 to a pot. During the night, talk about different causes you&amp;#039;d like to donate the money to. (Check out GlobalGiving.org and Kiva.org, which connects you to prescreened grassroots projects around the world.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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