A Holiday Plea

[bunnymcfoo]

Hey Y'all,

So there's this meme going around, where people post their wishlists for the December Holidays. You know the one? Where people say that they want fic, or a pony, or whatever.


I'm too poor to give anyone anything this year, so I'm not really gonna play that game. Instead, here's my twist:

One of my housemates works with/at a local homeless shelter for teens. From what she's said, they run around 15-20 kids at any time, and several of them live there on a fairly permanent basis.

Here's the thing. These kids pretty much don't have anything new, and the vast majority of their clothing and belongings are donated. Sounds pretty ok, right? Yeah, if you're interested in wearing clothing that's several years out of date, or about three decades too old for you - nobody really wants to dress like they're sixty when they're sixteen. Not to mention, can you imagine wearing second hand bras and panties?


You might be aware that I've got a seasonal job at Lane Bryant. This is awesome, for a number of reasons, but the key one here is that I've asked for and been given permission to use my 40% employee discount for the plus-sized girls who live at this shelter. I'm planning on hitting up Victoria's Secret or even Macy's in our mall this week and seeing if they'll match this discount as I'd really really like to get all the girls who live at the shelter some underwear that's never been used, is in their size, and is pretty.

Instead of giving me anything this holiday, I'd love it if you could donate some money towards this cause. I'm hoping to raise enough money to be able to get each girl two pairs of panties and a bra. Five pairs of panties run $25 at LB, and each bra works out to around $20. I figure if I can get around $200, I can swing this.

Of course, if I can get more than $200, I could do something for the guys. Spokane is freezing y'all, and they're always in need of things like socks and hoodies. I'm betting that I could talk a couple of stores into letting me buy things at their employee discount rate, and it would be awfully cool if the guys weren't left out of this.


So yeah, that's my Christmas wish this year. Help me help out a bunch of kids who don't have anything, and could really use something to make their lives a little bit better.


My paypal is jessamayone@hotmail.com (or click the shiny link!), and if you have any questions, I can be reached at bunnymcfoo at gmail dot com, or through a comment on this entry.

PLEASE, feel free to link this high and low, (especially if you've got a big friendslist :D) I'm really really crossing my fingers that this works out well. If anyone wants more information about the shelter, or wants a receipt for their donation, I can provide those - just ask!


ETA: I'm heading back down to the family's for Christmas on the 23rd, and I'd love to have something to actually get to the kids FOR Christmas, so I'm thinking that the 20th or the 21st is the deadline for this. ♥

Comments

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[justa-figment.livejournal.com]

Hi there. I saw this link floating around various friendlists and I knew I had to give something -- everyone deserves some new (and pretty) undies for the holidays. It wasn't very much, but I hope it helps a little, at least. :)

[cashewdani.livejournal.com]

I donated a little something (I wish it could be more), but pimped this at my own journal as well. You're doing something awesome and will really help to make things better for these kids.

[redheaded-itch.livejournal.com]

Here via impertinence. You can have my last ten bucks. :)

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time. *HUGS* Just donated. Thanks for spear-heading this, and to your roommate for all of her work with the shelter.

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea, just donated! :)

Hope you're doing well with this, these kids deserve a great Xmas too.

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

That's a wonderful and very thoughtful thing to do. And I'm glad that LB has let you use your employee discount for this. I shop at LB all the time.

I have sent a donation to your paypal.

[ex-warmfuzzi813.livejournal.com]

My offering is on it's way. Bless your heart for doing this.

[cunningplan.livejournal.com]

We don't know each other, but I've seen this linked all over my f-list, and I wanted to tell you that I think you are so, so wonderful for doing this! I sent a small donation :)

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

ZOMG, you're in Spokane? I just went and donated.

I used to live in Sandpoint, and hung out in Spokane a fair amount (I even set a fanfic there). Though this is a wonderful project no matter what, I love that Spokane girls are benefiting. Feed an old raggedy pair to the garbage eating goat in the park for me. (Well, maybe an imaginary pair.)

[andnightsgrow.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go pimp this to every comm I mod and my flist and maybe even my facebook, and perhaps the combined forces of all those people will come up with even a little something to add. I feel horrible I can't contribute anything myself as far as a monetary donation, but, alas, I am an unemployed teenager :'(

I saw that you've already raised roughly 10 x as much as what you originally hoped to, and I want to do everything within my power to help raise it even higher. You're a wonderful, thoughtful, kind, and self-sacrificing person, and I hope you raise what you have NOW 10 x over AGAIN, even, so that all these girls and the other kids can have a Christmas better than any they've ever had before. ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, this is wonderful. thank you! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your help! ♥

[blienky27.livejournal.com]

All right, I just threw in my donation (it's not very much, I'm afraid...)! Good luck, and will you post an update for us once all is said and done?

[bunnymcfoo.livejournal.com]

i totally will, and thank you again!

[raven-volant.livejournal.com]

I don't know you (came on a link, as I'm sure many other people did) but it's a great idea and I've contributed.