"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>
> <sf> wrote in message
>> I can't recall receiving a CARE package and I never even considered
>> sending one to my kids when they were away at college. We gave them
>> cash, not CARE.
>>
>> I've participated in the abf xmas exchange, but that's not a CARE
>> package.... it's a cultural exchange of culinary items.
>>
>
> So get lost in semantics if you want, but many of us like receiving a
> package of goodies from "home" once we move away.
>

I call them "care" packages too. I love putting them together! Cash
is not the same. And, for the folks I send them to, money is not the
issue. I just want them to feel special. My mother and sister and
several friends also do this, so I get *mine* too, nyah nyah!!