One day, Tim Smith took his adopted daughter with him to the Salvation Army for a bell ringing shift. His daughter asked him “What do you get out of it?”
He replied, “‘You can see people when they're walking up the ones that are going to put money in the kettle and you see the ones that just can’t put money in the kettle. The ones that I like getting money from are the ones that I change their mind, by just wishing them a Merry Christmas.”
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