Okay, so many urban legends surrounds the whole soda tab myth.  However, I can attest that charities do collect the soda can tabs for donations.  When we were at Philadelphia’s Ronald McDonald’s House, they had so many soda tabs, it was crazy!  So here we are, complete Diet Pepsi soda junkies (Fitness Together would not be happy with my admission to that)…and I started pulling our soda tabs.  Originally my plan was to donate them to the Seattle’s Ronald McDonald’s House.  Now I am researching how the IFOPA can benefit from them.  The downfall is the Ronald McDonald’s Houses have such a large fan base that they can actually benefit from soda tabs.  Here we are…a small, fairly unknown genetic disorder that gets little “airtime.”  With the economy completely tanking, this may be a way to help the IFOPA without pulling cash out of our wallets.  If you care to, please save your soda can tabs (or if you are from the Pacific Northwest they are called “pop can tabs”).  Yeah, just a little terminology I had to get used to when we first moved to Seattle.  Feel free to save them for awhile and mail them on to me.  I am assuming I’ll have to collect quite a bit before I can cash them in.  I am still researching on how they can benefit the IFOPA.  If the participation is not enough to make an impact, I will GLADLY drop them off at one of the two Ronald McDonald Houses here in the Seattle area.  I would totally break down in tears if I opened up an envelop full of soda tabs.�