A Week of Giving – NeighborImpact

2008/12/16

Yesterday’s post was about the Salvation Army Food Drive. Today’s is all about NeighborImpact. I started this blog for a few reasons and none of them were to make money. Don’t worry about me, I’m doing just fine. See I got three of my friends to join me in this program that I’m in and they each got three of their friends. They’re doing just fine. One of them has two Jeeps, he’s doing just fine.

Anyway, I decided that if I’m putting forth the effort to write this great content and become the most awesomest wannabe food critic of the blog-o-world dot net, than I might as well do it for a good cause. And since Google Adwords is easy to add to the blog, I went ahead and did that. I’ve always said that any money I make from this blog will go to NeighborImpact.

Well, today is that day. I will be better at sending in the money as soon as I get it from Google in the future. So over the last two years of blogging, with you’re help, we have raised $672.98!!! That’s not nothing. But I was hoping to raise more so since you have all been great about “supporting” my sponsors, with the wife’s permission, we are matching the donation. I dropped the check in the mail today. Thank you NeighborImpact for all the help you provide to the citizens of CO, and thanks to the almighty Google for Adsense, and of course to those businesses that sign up for Adwords and paying Google.


Although I can’t technically ask you to keep clicking on the Ads because of Google’s Terms of Service agreement but it is those clicks that has raised this money. So I fully recommend that you visit my sponsors and purchase items from them.

Thank you everyone for supporting the sponsors and please keep reading. I know you are reading by the comments and emails I receive. I love all the comments that I get (even if I don’t publish all of them) and the emails. I love all the rants and the crazies as well as those that have kind words or thank me for whatever reason. Hopefully this economy will turn around so I can keep on eating out as much as I used to (yes, I have cut back).

Sadly, no one has emailed me with ideas of how I can donate or which charities to help out so I guess I’m on my own. I think tomorrow I will give blood. Maybe Thursday I’ll go to the sperm bank (totally kidding!). Maybe I’ll shovel the neighbor’s walk. Maybe I’ll buy a quarter of a pig for some family in Africa. Stay tuned to find out what’s next.

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A Week of Giving

2008/12/15

My goal for this week is to give. I want to have a entire week’s worth of posting about giving. I don’t have a solid plan so anyone with any ideas of what I can do or which groups I can donate to, please let me know.

I started the week off with taking some food to Coldwell Banker Morris Real Estate for the Salvation Army Food Drive. We were already at Costco and I had the list of recommended items. So while we were weaving in and out people lining up for samples of chili and OJ (have I ranted about how freakin annoying it is that people line up for samples of the stupidest crap and say things like “ooooh what is this, bread? MMMM that sounds nice. I’ve never had that before.” while they leave their over sized cart right in the way of those of us that don’t care about a sample of green beans and all we want to do is to shop, leave, and get on with our day? No? I haven’t ranted about that yet? I’ll try to get to that one day), we collected some soup, mac n cheese, cereal, tuna, salmon and some other stuff.


It was a good start to our day and left us with a warm fuzzy feeling. By the time we dropped off the food, Coldwell Banker Morris Real Estate had already taken an entire truck full of food to the Salvation Army. They said that the food drive had collected enough food for 4 months. That’s great!

My next stop is to either drop off or at least get the check in the mail for NeighborImpact. Apparently I have collected money from Google Adwords and I was not aware of it. The money has been direct deposited into a bank account that I never check. Your support of my sponsors (clicking on the Ads) has raised almost $700. I’ll write more about that tomorrow.

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