🎅Our
2025, 16th annual Stuff-A-Bus Toy Drive was an incredible success!
Thanks for your support!! We all filled 2 buses with toy donations and
received more than $12,000 in cash and gift card donations!!!
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🎅 Where: Sobeys on Vaughan Harvey Boulevard
🎅 When: it happens from 6a to 6p on Thursday 27 November and Friday 28 November
🎅
More: we take your toy donations, gift cards, and cash donations and we
stuff 'em in a Codiac Transpo bus. Then the Salvation Army gets your
donation to a kid this Christmas!
🎅You will be helping folks who might not have a Christmas otherwise! so thanks!
🎄More about the Salvation Army and how to help them to help others:
1) Donate to our Stuff-a-Bus Toy Drive! icymi, This year it happens Thurs Nov27 and Fri Nov 28 from 6a to 6p in the parking lot of Sobeys on Vaughan Harvey Blvd. All donated toys go to the Salvation Army to help families in our region!
1) Donate to our Stuff-a-Bus Toy Drive! icymi, This year it happens Thurs Nov27 and Fri Nov 28 from 6a to 6p in the parking lot of Sobeys on Vaughan Harvey Blvd. All donated toys go to the Salvation Army to help families in our region!
2)
See a Salvation Army Kettle somewhere around town? Put money in that
kettle! Your donation will help families around here. Many kettles even
have tap-to-pay!
3) Donate to Salvation Army Maritimes online HERE.
4) Volunteer for the Kettle Campaign https://salvationarmy.ca/blog/a-kettle-volunteers-checklist/
5) Spread the word about the Salvation Army! Watch their social media for events!
6) idea: they have this thing where you and your community group or workplace can adopt a kettle ... why not do that, and make it the swear jar for your office or workplace. Every swear means money for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign!! See https://www.facebook.com/SAMoncton/posts/pfbid037GgFXX4cTdDZUfL14sosvJJYHEGQL6sjPeHKyamyGKgcpHBnGMtLFXoNd8wL6AHEl
3) Donate to Salvation Army Maritimes online HERE.
4) Volunteer for the Kettle Campaign https://salvationarmy.ca/blog/a-kettle-volunteers-checklist/
5) Spread the word about the Salvation Army! Watch their social media for events!
6) idea: they have this thing where you and your community group or workplace can adopt a kettle ... why not do that, and make it the swear jar for your office or workplace. Every swear means money for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign!! See https://www.facebook.com/SAMoncton/posts/pfbid037GgFXX4cTdDZUfL14sosvJJYHEGQL6sjPeHKyamyGKgcpHBnGMtLFXoNd8wL6AHEl
Here are some pics and videos...
👉 Scotty Note: in this age of screen time and SnapTok, we need to get back to a simpler time! Please consider donating a tinfoil ball to a kid this Christmas. Why should cats get all the fun? A tinfoil ball would be hours of enjoyment! You could kick it, throw it, put it in the sun to see how hot it gets... so many things! Say what you want about cats and their tinfoil balls but cats never get bogged down in Cyber Truck AI FOMO doom scrolling. And if a cat's tinfoil ball gets damaged, you don't have to pay a thousand dollars for repairs - you just get another tinfoil ball. Please, this holiday season, let's get back to a carefree, screen-free time. Let's get back to TINFOIL BALL! Listen to our Tinfoil Ball Power Hour Live Stream at bit.ly/listentoscottyandtony. *donating toys and gift cards is also great.
⛑ Scotty Note: Remember Last Year when I tried to encourage the donation of chainsaws
during our Chainsaw Power Hour?! Or gift cards. They're also great. Anyways, you can live stream at bit.ly/listentoscottyandtony
Memories from Toy Drive Past:
My nearly scientific calculations are complete: you donated THOUSANDS of dollars and an entire BUS FULL OF TOYS!!! Thank you for making Christmas bright for so many kids this year!!!!
Photos...
🎅 Bonus Toy Notes from Christmas Past:
-- The Most Popular Toys of ALL TIME! (https://cossykids.com/blogs/cossykids-ideas/the-top-ten-best-selling-toys-of-all-time-a-sneak-peek-at-the-most-popular-playthings-of-all-time) ... including Rubik's Cube, Barbie, Lego, Teddy Bear, Tamagotchi, Star Wars Figures, and Yo-Yo!!
-- Toys to avoid donating:
1) The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab... from the 1950's/ contained ACTUAL URANIUM!/ link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory)
2) Snacktime Cabbage Patch Doll... so bitey!/ link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/01/07/mattel-pulls-plug-on-hair-eating-cabbage-patch-doll/4eb10f53-a923-44bc-a3b0-683ef5d764a9/)
3) Rollerblade Barbie... so much burning!/ link (http://web.mit.edu/hershey/www/humor/dave/dave3.html)
4) Moon Shoes... so bone-breaky/ link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_shoes)
5) Metal Playground Slides... hot hot hot!/ rusty and sharp!/ gave me lock jaw!/ link (https://nerdist.com/article/40-foot-tall-metal-giant-slide-detroit-hurts-people-video/)
-- BEST TOYS OF 2023... https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/childrens-products/toy-reviews/g43756186/best-new-toys-2023/
-- if none of the above info appeals to you, perhaps you'd be interested in this suggestion brought to you by Johnson's Steak Knives and the Canadian Steak Knife Coalition (*may contain affiliate links*) ...
If you're not sure about what kind of gift the kids like these days, you can't beat a classic box of steak knives! Or for the younger kids, steak spoons!!
-- Other toy donation ideas from past years include Frisbees (donations can be accepted from across the parking lot... just throw)... Drones (donations can be flown right into the bus and landed on the toy pile)... Avocados (this recommendation has been discontinued)... YoYos or YoYoYos (more modern)...
-- Want to give a classic toy? Maybe something from the Toy Hall of Fame!!
Here's an older story about some toys that got voted in: NERF, Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Cabbage Patch Kids, and baseball cards. https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2023/11/10/fans-push-fisher-price-corn-popper-into-toy-hof-with-nerf-cabbage-patch-kids-baseball-cards/.
Here's an older story about some toys that got voted in: NERF, Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Cabbage Patch Kids, and baseball cards. https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2023/11/10/fans-push-fisher-price-corn-popper-into-toy-hof-with-nerf-cabbage-patch-kids-baseball-cards/.
