Re: from Gail and Dad re: Xmas gifts this year

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

See responses below.

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:26:58 -0800
 >
 > Hi Noelle and Robert,
 > 
 > Please let us know what you would like or need for Christmas gifts this year
 > as soon as you know. Neither Don nor I ever received an answer from you,
 > Noelle, about a Birthday gift as our computers couldn't read your earlier
 > link answer. Maybe you didn't need or want anything or perhaps you would
 > prefer us to make a donation to a nonprofit organization on your behalf.

Yes.  Please make a donation to

 https://plasticoceans.org/donate/

Thanks.

 > Some ideas might be to one of the following if you don't have a favorite
 > organization: : Heifer International where one gives money to pay for an
 > animal to needy people in the world that get trained by Heifer in how to
 > take care of it so that it gives food to those very poor needy people,
 > Unicef, FINCA, Oxfam, Environmental Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood,
 > Alzheimer's Association, or National MS Society.
 > 
 > So far the only thing I can think of that we would want for a Xmas gift from
 > you would be to find a company that would convert our cassette tapes of
 > music into CD disks.

There are a bunch of products which would allow you to do this yourself.
See

 https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+cassette+digital&tbm=shop

for example.

 > If no company will do that conversion, then perhaps you
 > could find that same music we have or very similar and just send us the CD
 > disks, and we would donate all of our cassette tapes to a thrift shop.

If you only have music, then, yes, please send us a list of music that you
have on cassette and we'll look for the CD equivalents.

If you have personal recordings, then you will need to use the above
machines.  Also, we converted personal recordings that we had on cassette
by using our cassette player and could do this for you for any non-music,
personal recordings that you may have.

 > Today
 > I checked with Costco to see if they would do that conversion, but they
 > don't do that but only work with converting videos (films). Looking in our
 > current S.B. phone book, I found 2 music stores that have gone out of
 > business (one of those permanently closed due to retirement) and a third
 > listed as closed and went bankrupt.
 > 
 > Best,
 > 
 > Gail and Dad