Abstract: A plurality of donation articles are provided to allow a store's customers to make charitable donations. Each donation article corresponds to one or more charitable entities and includes an indicia designating a donation amount. The indicia on a customer-selected donation article is read to determine the donation amount. Optionally, the donation amount may be added to the customer's bill. Once the customer pays the bill, the store may transfer funds to the charitable entity corresponding to the donation amount on behalf of the customer.

Abstract: Mounted on the front of an upright vacuum cleaner nozzle is a rake for lifting the pile of a shag rug as the vacuum cleaner is pulled in a backward direction. Provision is made for selectively lengthening or shortening the rake to match the width of the nozzle and for angularly positioning the rake either up out of the way or into engagement with the rug pile at the optimum raking angle.