Shelter bling my home, possibly the most misguided homeless fund-raisin campaign

Ben Edwards | 23.12.2009 10:21 | Social Struggles

Shelter this Christmas have launched a 'bling my home' campaign. Running a homeless campaign around the shameless show of excessive consumerism seems extremely inappropriate. Have they totaly lost the plot, have they become part of the problem not the solution?

Bling is the shameless show of excessive consumerism so why shelterer running campaign called bling your street. I personally find the whole bling thing offensive. Maybe shelter think it is ironic but I don't buy that. Bling is the epitome of everything wrong with Christmas. What do you think.

Ben Edwards
e-mail: funkytwig@gmail.com

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23.12.2009 13:04

What a helpful post.

The correct name for the campaign in Bling my Home

http://www.housebling.org.uk/

.. and it's basically a google maps 'mashup' allowing you to put christmas decorations onto google streetview.

Big deal. I pretty much despise shelter's PR (don't know anything about their actual work - presumably it's very good ). But this is an absolute non-story...

anon

Po faced moaning

23.12.2009 13:33

Agree, it's just taking the mickey out of extravegant xmas decoractions. What's the problem? This reads like the alternative Daily Mail, with "Xmas" and "Bling" instead of "drugs" and "single parents".

Anonymous

May seem like harmless fun

23.12.2009 15:46

But I find the whole bling thing quite insipid. Shelter may of been going for ironic but I fear it may be lost on lots of people, its a very simple and non bling website;). Anyway this slam poet says it much better than me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoFf-eNpGE

Not quite sure where name calling gets us, I feel like I me in the playground again.

Ben

Ben Edwards
mail e-mail: funkytwig@gmail.com

Great Video..

23.12.2009 16:08

Mike D

agreed

28.12.2009 20:26

Yes I think it is great too.

Anonymous