Mikos gone mad! MoTK's First Annual Holiday Charity Drive

[helvetica]

Do you have an equivalent charity where you donate a toy for a needy child?  That would count.

[Moerin]

Same for here, as far as I know.  Sigh...

Ahem.  Also, $1000 is a great total, but I'm sure we can do better.  Come on, if you haven't donated already!  Even if it's just a few dollars, it's for a good cause~!

...If the total hasn't gone up by the time I get back from work tomorrow, I might make one final donation.  Because I really want to see us get over $1000 in the end.

[Fightest]

Do you have an equivalent charity where you donate a toy for a needy child?  That would count.

I was actually thinking of donating something to Child's Play, but that's on the interbutts. Don't know of any RL charity outlets out here .

Speaking of interbutts - what's MJP's next donation benchmark? Something like 1200 of your American moneys?

[helvetica]

You know what.  I'll allow entries for other charities as long as it involves children.  You just better figure out an amusing way to click submit on a webpage and tape or photograph it :V

[triangles]

Yeah, $1200. 
I sat down to work on the hierarchy but I need MJP's final approval.

The final benchmark will be a Touhou that I can make in 3 hours with $1/yard fabric OHOHO.  We just need to work out what said benchmark is.

He's already at least in ladyclothes of some sort for this... the question is how MUCH  :V

[♛ Apher-Forte]

You know what.  I'll allow entries for other charities as long as it involves children.  You just better figure out an amusing way to click submit on a webpage and tape or photograph it :V

here in Asia, children are fat, and well fed. we have a bunch of old people who could really use more care.

[helvetica]

Maybe in the cities but Malaysian and Filipino kids I'd hardly call fat and well fed.

[Menorah Jams, Pham]

Yep, $1200 for a Touhou, I figure $1800 for a speedo maybe?

[Nobu]

Yep, $1200 for a Touhou, I figure $1800 for a speedo maybe?

With the added stipulation that anyone pushing past the $1800 mark can opt for 'not speedo', so we don't discourage would-be donators. :V

[Fightest]

Oh hay, I made a donation, but it's looking weird to me. Did it come through?

[Menorah Jams, Pham]

With the added stipulation that anyone pushing past the $1800 mark can opt for 'not speedo', so we don't discourage would-be donators. :V

The onus here is not to provide a show for those who would gaze upon my hairy, beer-gut Adonis form, but for those who would take joy and schadenfreude in my state. 

Spoiler:

But if we get that high triangles will donate in a bikini

  :toot:

[triangles]

Spoiler:

But if we get that high triangles will donate in a bikini[/url]  :toot:

uh excuse me wtf u doing?

I do vote against speedo namely since MJP doesn't have one but we do need a cherry on top donation goal.  $1200 for a crappy velco and hotglue Touhou cosplay sounds about right but what else...

[Fightest]

Sooo... anyone gonna add that last fifty? It's all for a good cause!

That cause being getting MJP into silly clothing, clearly. :V

[Moerin]

I actually did that yesterday (and a little bit more), but now I'm not sure if it went through or not... Sigh.

[Fightest]

Jesus, Moerin, you are made of money!

[Menorah Jams, Pham]

Guys, this is more awesome than I ever thought possible.

I found my swim trunks but at this rate I'm going to have to go buy a Speedo. 

There's only about 11 hours left until the 20th! 

I'm open to suggestions for the $3,000 mark - the FINAL HUMILIATION! 

[Kilgamayan]

Phew, almost forgot my donation.

I am the biggest tard ever.

[helvetica]

Final total comes out to $1868.74!

The contest will be judged today/tonight and the winners contacted on where they would like to send the pot.

[triangles]

Great job everyone!
I'm so proud of you all  :toot:
Though I have to ask, was the 74 cents a natural donation or the result of Paypal nomnomnom-ing some fees?

[Fightest]

Looks like the result of currency conversion to me.

[helvetica]

Someone sent 30 quid so it had to be converted.  Also someone sent $52.30 in USD for some ungodly reason (guess leftovers from paypal account?)

[helvetica]

Goddamn you guys impress the hell out of me.  I had to play the PayPal shuffle to get it into a business account where I don't have the 500/month withdrawl limit.  I can't exactly verify an account with the name "Reimu Hakurei" as the owner XD

Now how the hell am I going to get 2 grand to a charity? @___________@;;

[triangles]

I was actually wondering about that - unless everyone wanted to donate to charities that took Paypal you'd have to have a Gensokyo drivers license or something to withdraw :V

EDIT: Just saw your edit - a few charities do take Paypal so that could ease the burden a bit.  Probably the best way to do it would be to transfer to a debit account, even one you just start up today, that can be treated like a credit card for online donations.  I think Paypal also allows you to write a check directly from them too.  I guess it depends on what the winning charities are.

[helvetica]

It's fine, I have a business account I actually transfer to all the time.  I don't have donationbox linked to a bank account but I do have an MoTK savings account for our normal donations, so I just had to shuffle it around a bit.  I should be able to get the funds out in the next week or so.

It won't make it in time for Christmas but the thought counts at least.  Next year we should probably start the contest a little earlier now that we know the work involved.

[triangles]

ohhh well that makes it easier. 
Yeah, so probably dumping the extra/no opinion funds into material goods for Toys for Tots donation would be not applicable, but Child's Play would be a great substitute (and does take Paypal!)

[helvetica]

What I'm going to do, depending on the charities chosen, is either send money via Paypal's virtual credit card or direct from Paypal, or send it to the MoTK bank account and then cut cashiers checks from it and mail/deliver them.

Material donations to Toys for Tots would be doable, but probably not wise considering that Christmas will have passed by the time I get the money into a place I can spend it.

[Kilgamayan]

Someone sent 30 quid so it had to be converted.  Also someone sent $52.30 in USD for some ungodly reason (guess leftovers from paypal account?)

I sent $57.30. I guess PayPal took $5 as a transaction fee.

[Rin Kagamine]

I sent $57.30.

GETIT!?

I think it's cool that we were able to raise so much (some people here were quite generous).  However, I really don't want to see MJP in a speedo :<

[triangles]

Yeah truth be told I forgot what "prize" ranking we're up to but I agree MJP in a speedo should have been the lowest ranking to force people into donating 

The deadline for Toys for Tots in my area is the 23rd, and I'm out all day tomorrow so I guess I'm whipping up the World's Crappiest Touhou Costume (depending on what fabrics I can find for dirt cheap) tonight for MJP to embarrass himself in unless someone has a better idea  :V

[Kilgamayan]

I vote for triangles in a Speedo.

All in favor?