Posts Tagged ‘Homelessness’
Hey everyone, just a reminder, Laundry Love is next Thursday night at 7:30! Make it a clean start to the new year! Please be there at 7:30 so we can assign roles and get started on time. Hope to see you there!
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Christmas has so many memories for so many of us. Things like food, family, more food, and sometimes more family, the exciting expectation of a long road trip to the grandparent’s house. Going and picking out a tree, then coming home to drink hot chocolate while we decorated it. For any kid, the best [...]
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Hey everyone, just a reminder! Laundry Love Christmas party is THIS Thursday night, December 15th. If you haven’t been to one you are missing out. Just look at what others are saying about it, “It’s a Christmas party,” OC Weekly. So see? Bring on out the TIDE-ings of great Joy. If you want to dress [...]
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Think the Holidays can be lonely? Try being on the streets with no real friends or family. It doesn’t really make for having a Merry Christmas but hey, maybe you can find some comfort in the shelters now that they are finally open. That being said, we do have a chance to make things a [...]
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Just a reminder Laundry Love is this Thursday! Don’t forget to come out and say hi! Special thanks to Fleur De Lys in Costa Mesa for donating 20% of their weekend sales to Laundry Love Santa Ana! If you need another reason to come out to Laundry Love, watch the video, THIS COULD BE YOU!
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Guess who is turning 2 next week? That’s right, your favorite laundry service in the greater Santa Ana area – us! And that means another Laundry Love party! But of course WE aren’t turning 2 so much as you are! This wouldn’t be possible without all our awesome friends and volunteers who show up faithfully [...]
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Hey everyone, just a reminder to come on out to Laundry Love tonight for our August and Everything After (anyone name that reference?) If you want a gig with us be there at 7:30 sharp, we are starting promptly at 8. As per usual, we can use quarters and powder soap. Thanks!
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A few years ago I went on a trip to New Orleans to do some volunteer work with local homeless charities. It was actually the spring before Katrina struck, and I have often wondered how many of those we met made it through alive. Anyway, one of the things we did was to serve food [...]
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A few months ago I met a woman at Laundry Love that I had never seen before. She had gray hair and was a little older, if I had to wager a guess, I’d say she was in her sixties. I introduced myself and we talked for a few minutes. Then she said something that [...]
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I met Michelle three months ago at Laundry Love. According to the standards we often judge them by, Michelle didn’t “look” homeless. (In fact many of our homeless friends don’t look that way.) Her hair was well groomed and her clothes were in decent shape and it was obvious she was trying to take care [...]
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A huge thank you to Moses for these incredible photographs!
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Hey Laundry Lovers, it’s April, and you know what that means right? Spring cleaning time! No better way to get started then by doing laundry for those who might need a little help along the way. If I am not mistaken the winter shelters are closed now so hopefully more of our friends will be [...]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this Thursday night at 7:30 P.M. it’s a can’t miss, one night only, Battle of the Stains! That’s right sports fans, time for a wet and soapy battle royale to see which stains can endure the metal machine of death. Will it be Scott Overpeck’s baby vomit stain, Jeff Jordan’s Arby’s sauce [...]
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So what says love more then Valentine’s Day? How about Laundry Love! Yeah, that’s right, next Thursday, the 17th, just three days after the dreaded V-Day, we have the real love in the air. That being said, what else says love besides helping those in need? How about baking cookies or snacks to bring out [...]
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What do you get when you take a handful of quarters, pour in some magic cleaning poweder, mix with awesome volunteers and set to bake every third Thursday of the month? Laundry Love! That’s right folks, it’s that time again, the third Thursday of the month and we need you from 7:30 – 10:15 PM [...]
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Thanks to Moses for this spectacular photo set.
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Well laundry lovers, it is almost that time of year again, the time when joy, peace, fresh mountain breeze fabric softener and other such pleasantries are in the air. Of course I am talking about the holidays coming up and in particular Christmas. Which can only mean one thing. It’s almost time for the Laundry [...]
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A friend shared this quote from Mother Teresa and mentioned it reminded her of Laundry Love Santa Ana. What an honor… “Many people are hungry not for bread only, but they are hungry for … love. Many people are not only naked for want of a piece of cloth, but they are naked for human [...]
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I met a man at Laundry Love last month who reminded me just how easy it can be to end up on the streets. For the sake of privacy let’s call him Antonio. Antonio is now on the streets and unable to work. He wasn’t always this way, in fact just a few months before [...]
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I met a man at Laundry Love last month who reminded me just how easy it can be to end up on the streets. For the sake of privacy let’s call him Antonio. Antonio is now on the streets and unable to work. He wasn’t always this way, in fact just a few months before [...]
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