RE: world's greatest shave

[Guest guest]

Wow! I just lost my email to you , I'll try again. I went on that website

to make a donation in your name, and for some reason they did not accept my

information. If you will send me your address, I will gladly send you a check.

A few years ago I hosted Mother's Day Tea Parties, 3 yrs.in a row, and raised

a little over

$18,000.00 doing so, for the LLS. It was great fun, and I would have raised

more with the shaving hair idea, but I am the only one around here that I know

of with cml. I enjoyed doing the tea parties, but then my son in law got

Parkinson's Disease, ang the entire family turned it's time and energy to

setting up a Parkinson's fund in the area. Temporarily that is on hold now as

so many family things have happened. But it's alway fun working on a fund

raiser, good luck to you. Bobby Doyle

Malseed <rodorbal@...> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

In OZ we currently have the annual World's Greatest Shave for Leukaemia - to

raise funs for the Leukaemia Foundation for research to find cures. Several

weeks ago a female work colleague and I made the commitment to shave our

heads if we could raise $1,000 each.... well we have reached the target and

sponsorship is still coming in. I would love you all to come and visit and

leave a comment on my shave page. Local media will be there and we may even

get our heads on TV! The head shaving is this Thursday, so I will put the

very immemorial pics on after the event. At least I am able to choose to

lose my hair unlike a lot of others with the acute leukaemias.

http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/profile.php?id=397249

Regards,

[Guest guest]

$18,000 ????!!!!! That is absolutely amazing! My youngest daughter has

decided she will shave her head next year, so we are going to start plotting

how we can raise a good sum of money to make it worthwhile.

Regards,

from Downunder......now hairless!

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of

ROBERTA DOYLE

Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 1:09 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] world's greatest shave

Wow! I just lost my email to you , I'll try again. I went on that

website to make a donation in your name, and for some reason they did not

accept my information. If you will send me your address, I will gladly send

you a check.

A few years ago I hosted Mother's Day Tea Parties, 3 yrs.in a row, and

raised a little over

$18,000.00 doing so, for the LLS. It was great fun, and I would have raised

more with the shaving hair idea, but I am the only one around here that I

know of with cml. I enjoyed doing the tea parties, but then my son in law

got Parkinson's Disease, ang the entire family turned it's time and energy

to setting up a Parkinson's fund in the area. Temporarily that is on hold

now as so many family things have happened. But it's alway fun working on a

fund raiser, good luck to you. Bobby Doyle

[Guest guest]

Hi , it's been a few years, but some lady started having Mother's Day Tea

Parties in honor of a son she lost to Leukemia, or, that is what I was told

anyway. So LLS contacted me 5 yrs. ago and asked if I would be interested in

sponsoring one. What they meant was a make believe party, you know, send out

invitations, with a donation form, letter etc. and have my friends just send in

a donation. Well I knew they would just trash it, and decided , why not have a

real tea party? When I called the LLS they thought I was nuts, why would I want

to have a party when I didn't have to? I went to local business, they made

donations of stuff to raffle off, we sold raffle tickets on some of it, gave

some of it away for prizes, and sent invitations to everyone we knew. And we

served tea. And we served Mimosas! And the latter most likely had more to do

with raising the first $2300.00. So, the next year I went to more local

businesses, got more stuff donated, got gift

certificates etc. donated, and we raised over $6,000 the second year. The

third year we did about $10,000.00 . With the last two we raffled off a 3 day

weekend in any one of the 50 states, travel not included, and that went over

very well. The girls loved it, looked forward to it every year, wore their best

hats, and a prize was given for the prettiest hat, the craziest hat, etc. But I

do have to admit, I don't think the LLS would have appreciated the fact that we

served booze instead of tea, no matter how much money I raised. It was fun, and

it was easy, and if felt good to give back to the Leukemia Soc. for all the

money they have put into research, that I have benefited from. I would still be

doing it but things have changed a bit in our family, my son in law has

Parkinson's, and his parents have been living with them, they are both sick, and

it's my daughter and son in law's home we had the parties at. When we found out

there was not a local Parkinson foundation

in Cleveland, we started our own. And that also has been put on hold, 5 of the

family have each had two children, since, and their time is short. It takes a

lot of time and committment to be involved in organizing a legitimate

foundation, but we will get back on track with it.

I also raised over $2,000.00 last year crocheting scarves and selling them. I

tried going to Xmas bazaars to sell them but they did not sell well. Believe it

or not, they sold like hot cakes in bars. Most of them were sports team colors

and were very popular. Another thing the Parkinsons group did , was go to

neighbors, and beg for booze, and put up baskets of booze, then went to bars and

sold tickets on it, and they too raised over $2,000.00.

Lots of ways to raise money, but really great for kids to get involved, which

of course leaves out the " baskets " . My grand kids sold scarves at school, I

made them in the school colors and the cheerleaders loved them.

Didn't mean to go on so long with this, but there are so many ways to raise

money, and it is such fun doing it. If I had had one more tea party, I would

have shaved my head too, could not figure out how to make money on it. Got to

go, take care, Bobby

and there are always candy or cookie sales, and car washes for kids, and baby

sitting and donating the money......

Malseed <rodorbal@...> wrote:

$18,000 ????!!!!! That is absolutely amazing! My youngest daughter has

decided she will shave her head next year, so we are going to start plotting

how we can raise a good sum of money to make it worthwhile.

Regards,

from Downunder......now hairless!

_____

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of

ROBERTA DOYLE

Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 1:09 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] world's greatest shave

Wow! I just lost my email to you , I'll try again. I went on that

website to make a donation in your name, and for some reason they did not

accept my information. If you will send me your address, I will gladly send

you a check.

A few years ago I hosted Mother's Day Tea Parties, 3 yrs.in a row, and

raised a little over

$18,000.00 doing so, for the LLS. It was great fun, and I would have raised

more with the shaving hair idea, but I am the only one around here that I

know of with cml. I enjoyed doing the tea parties, but then my son in law

got Parkinson's Disease, ang the entire family turned it's time and energy

to setting up a Parkinson's fund in the area. Temporarily that is on hold

now as so many family things have happened. But it's alway fun working on a

fund raiser, good luck to you. Bobby Doyle