Ebay --

[Guest guest]

, I actually thought about Ebay -- packaging some of the

clothing as " lots " and then turning the money over to MAGIC. A

woman in a different division got these historical romance novels,

first editions, donated by the authors and signed by them, and then

sold them on Ebay and donated the money. It made me start to think

what these Roxy and Gap clothes might bring.

Lack of time is what got me.... hee hee. My husband watched me

boxing up the clothes to send to MAGIC with this " oh man " look on

his face... Jen

> > OK, I have a really dumb question.

> >

> > First off, I want to apologize in advance for my postings. I

tend

> > to type very fast (80wpm) and so I tend to write quite short and

> > brief. Sometimes when I go back and re-read my postings, I'm

> > like " eewww, that sounds a bit short " . The tone of the email,

that

> > is. So I am apologizing in advance -- for those of you who know

> me,

> > you know my natural talkative stage is anything but short with

> > people, HA!!!!

> >

> > Now, CLOTHING. I spent an hour going through the kids closets

> > yesterday -- I have at least 4 feet in piles of stain-free

mostly

> > brand name shirts and sweaters. For girls, Roxy, Limited Too,

> Gap.

> > For boys, mostly Gap.

> >

> > I just can not see giving these great clothes to Goodwill.

> > Normally, I have my big MAGIC garage sale, but no time for that.

> >

> > So I got to thinking, what if we spread out clothes on tables in

> > fromt of our Dr. H table -- maybe sorted roughly by size (but as

> you

> > will see from all of us, we all look for clothes that

run " smaller "

> > than the size actually says....). My idea is that the clothes

> > aren't priced.

> >

> > Our MAGIC division will give you a tax deduction receipt where

you

> > record whatever the " value " of your clothes are for your own tax

> > records.

> >

> > Then, anyone at the convention can pick out the clothing they

would

> > like, and rather than priced, they simply " make a donation " to

> > MAGIC. We could set guidelines (e.g., a minimum of $1 for t-

> shirts,

> > $2 for short-sleeved shirts). BUt I would rather know that a

> family

> > that needed and Tyler's castoffs got them.

> >

> > Do you think this would work? Would it be too chaotic???

> >

> > Another idea would be to run it on Thursday night as a " division

> > fundraiser " in the EXHIBIT HALL -- with lots of tables. We

would

> > need volunteers to staff it, but I have a list that could all do

1-

> > hour sessions. Then whatever is left, we could put on our own

Dr.

> H

> > visit tables on Fri or Sat nights.

> >

> > SO.... thoughts? If you are coming to the convention, do you

have

> > any gently used UNSTAINED (key part) clothing? IDeally, we

could

> > ship the stuff ahead of time to MAGIC, but otherwise, just bring

it.

> >

> > Am I nuts? Am I taking on too much? Should I just take this to

> the

> > local consignment store (who gives me $1 a piece, ripoff!!!)

> >

> >