Did your charitable contributions change once you retired?

[jerome len]

Most people like to give around year end and Holiday time.....I'm the same.

We try to give each quarter of the year. Our charities (food bank is a favorite) need the gifts more at times other than the Holiday's and year end when most people become charitable. And, we're fortunate......we can afford to continue giving in retirement.

 

[imoldernu]

When there's little way to recoup $$$ due to age or infirmity, it becomes more important to be judicious, lest one become a donee, rather than a donor.

Less in dollars, more in good works. Much in goods, to places like Goodwill or in our case PADS (a homeless shelter funded by a resale shop.)

Dollars go to Salvation Army... where we know the dollars go to the recipients.
Charity ratings here:
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[PawPrint53]

Definitely less for the reasons others have mentioned. I volunteer at an animal shelter, a literacy program and an elementary school so I hope the hours spent "count" as my donation. Still donate $ to my church.

 

[Original Wally]

INTERESTING thread. We generally pegged our giving to a kind of "net earnings" - gross less the deferral to 457 / 401(k). AND now that we are in the mode of a (hopefully) gradual draw down, I treat that as "earned income" for purposes of charitable givings - so we are giving the same $$ and about the same % of cash flowing through the checking account.