The Proceeds From This Sale
Will Be Donated To
The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation
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About Toys for Tots:
From the organization's web site: "The primary goal of Toys for Tots (http://www.toysfortots.org/Default.aspx) is to deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive, patriotic citizens."
You get cigars and kids get toys! All proceeds will be sent to SeñorPablo for a donation to Toys for Tots on behalf of the Cigar Geeks community.
Hello Friends, it is that time of year again!!!Hopefully this year has been a better one than the last couple for everyone! Let's spread our good fortune with others and help the kids out with our annual Toys For Tots Auction! Last year we raised $1,545 for the kiddos. Can we beat that this year? We beat our previous total last year! We will see!!The first part of the equation is YOU, the great BOTLs and SOTLs that donate to the Toys for Tots Auction that we have each year. So, I am here to solicit donations for the auction. Yes, I know that is a bad word, but without soliciting the auction will never be able to happen. I hate doing this part of the deal, but it is what makes it possible for us to raise money for the kids. The donations can be anything from cigars, to t-shirts, lighters, cutters, ash trays, hats, cigar books, clothing, swag, etc. etc. etc.. Everyone has a box of random unused cigar smoking stuff don't they? Put it to use for the kids! Hit up your local B&M for a donation if you know the owner. It however should probably be geared towards cigar smokers, pipe smokers, or liquor drinkers, as the auction will be held for people here on the Cigar Geeks website. Some of the new people may not have been around for the previous auctions, so you can see last years auction and outcome here: http://www.cigargeeks.com/index.php?topic=54226.0 (http://www.cigargeeks.com/index.php?topic=53949.0)
The difference between some of the previous auctions and this one, is that you will keep your donation, instead of mailing it to me, and then I will combine donations, and set up "kits" to be auctioned off. Once the auction has been completed, and paid for by the winner, I will let the donator know to ship out their package to the person that won the auction kit that contained their package. This is my 5th year running this, so I am starting to get the hang of it, but I will probably still screw something up again along the way! Forgive me, I’ll get it sorted out. We will make this a great donation for Toys for Tots as we always do!!! What do you have to donate for the kids?Please do not post your donations here. You can email me at duckslayer1021@yahoo.com with your donation or donation ideas, or PM me here, or text me at 501-215-7695, just not in the middle of the night or early in the morning, I don't need the wife mad! I'll get pictures from you of what you want to donate and I will combine them into kits for the auction. Hopefully we can take donations for a couple weeks this year, and my plan is to get the auction started and completed so everyone can get their auction winnings by Christmas, yes, that is coming up too soon! Let's make it a great auction this year and a HUGE donation to Toys for Tots!Also, if you want to make a cash donation to Toys for Tots again this year, that will be fine, just send me a message. A donation of $20 cash or more, a kit donation for the auction for TFT, or a winning bid, earns you a Toys for Tots badge. To make a monetary donation, you can send those to duckslayer1021@msn.com on Paypal.Let's try to get all of the auction donation ideas to me by Friday, November 25th. That is a little over 2 weeks away. I can get them all put together, and get the auction started by Dec 1 that way, and hopefully we can get all the kits out to people by Christmas!Thank you all for everything you do for the kids each year, you are a great and caring group of people to call friends!Emerson
I'll put a package together
I'll be putting a package together as well. :rocker:
Add me to the list of donation providers
You know I am in to put something together E :smoker:
I appreciate all of you guys! Keep em coming for the kiddos!!
E
I've received 1 donation so far for the TFT Auction, it's going to be slim pickings this year if we don't get anymore!
E
I will put up another nirab mystery box if that is acceptable.
Quotenirab - 11/14/2022 6:49 PM
I will put up another nirab mystery box if that is acceptable.
Yes sir, I appreciate it!
E
I will get you something this week Emerson. Hoping to get organized for major sell off.......................
Sounds good Brad. I'm interested to see what's in the sell off as well!
E
We've got about 4 more days for donations. Please try to get them to me shortly.
E
Hi E. Sent a PM. Would like to at least get a cash donation out.
Thanks,
-Paul
Emerson, I will figure out something to donate this week.
I appreciate it Paul and Gary.
E
Tomorrow is the "deadline" for the donations. Let me know what you have please gentlemen. We only have 3 kits for sure right now, and 4-5 more that have said they will donate, but I haven't seen anything definite on those.
Thanks for all that you do for the Toys for Tots program!
Emerson
QuoteMcBryde - 11/24/2022 9:14 PM
Tomorrow is the "deadline" for the donations. Let me know what you have please gentlemen. We only have 3 kits for sure right now, and 4-5 more that have said they will donate, but I haven't seen anything definite on those.
Thanks for all that you do for the Toys for Tots program!
Emerson
I'll get something put together this weekend E...I'll shoot you some pics. Thanks again :thumbsup:
Let's not let the kids down !
It's going to be slim pickings this year gentlemen! I only have 3 kits that will be going up for auction at this time. I am going to give people until Sunday afternoon to get stuff to me, and then I am going to try to get the auction together the beginning of the week to launch on December 1st.
Donate if you can, the kids will appreciate it the most!
E
Sorry for the delay!! Thanks again for putting this together E - hope we can raise some cash for the kiddos :smoker: