Thanks for the ping Patty! Can't wait to read the email and see the photo from Mosul! :-)
ACCOUNTING for NOVEMBER and DECEMBER, 2005
MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS:
PGalt, mass55th, AIC, PigRigger, norton, musicman, musicman, musicman, PigRigger, Swat Team, JaneAustin, Coop, mass55th, ShowMeMom, jtill, Tunehead54, Let’s Roll, swheats, Just mythoughts, manna, SwatTeam, bjcintennessee, Kitty Mittens
Sent a total of $1820 (cash, checks, money order, Walmart shopping cards and Paypal) minus Paypal fees of $7.02=
TOTAL NET MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS: $1812.98
(If anyone does not see their name on this list, please contact me so I can add any contribution I have inadvertantly overlooked in the barely controlled chaos that was in the livingroom and was moved to the guestroom.)
GOODS CONTRIBUTED:
1. Uncounted DVD recordings from MJY1288 are valued at a dollar each on the customs forms, but not counted in the value of goods purchased by myself and sent to the bases.
2. 66 Handmade lace ornaments (8 red stockings, 5 colorful U.S. flag stars, 23 white stars, 21 light cream snowflakes and 9 hearts) from JaneAustin
3. 26 Christmas cards from ShowMeMom, Coop, Tunehead54
4. 2 DVD’s (Elf and Hurricane Express) from Susie in Texas, who also sent Matrix, Out of Time in exchange for Blazing Saddles, ScaryMovie2.
EXPENDITURES:
1. Sent $110 check to MJY1288 to purchase and mail 6 ft prelit Christmas tree to Tal Afar.
2. Sent $300 check to Nina0113 ($250 was for purchasing and mailing Xbox and multiplayer accessory to Bagram and accessories for their Playstation2 (multiplayer accessory and memory cards) to Engineers at Baghdad, and an additional $50 for partial postage expenses toward the many care packages she mailed to Bagram.)
3. Sent $50 check to Abigail Adams for partial postage expenses toward the many care packages she mailed to Mosul.
4. Purchased $145.60 worth of goods from catalog and had shipped directly to VeniVidiVici (96 Christmas stockings, 80 holly leaf with red berry to decorate stockings, 100 Santa or Snowman print ziplock bags, 96 holiday print cellophane bags, 192 dorky toys (reindeer sponge ball shooters, bottles bubble juice, paddleballs, flutes, rocket flyers, balloon sleds and racer cars, slide puzzles, paratroopers) and 72 really dorky tiny foam gliders plus 1 nice plush Santa hat and unknown musical light up Santa antler hat. His family decorated the stockings with glitter and added edible goodies and mailed to Kirkuk.
5. COST/VALUE of GOODS PURCHASED or SCROUNGED and sent to bases and hospitals (Actual items listed in previous posts)
1) Bagram, Afghanistan: goods $251.92, postage $20.80=$272.72
2) Tal Afar, Iraq: goods $280.04 (plus 2 toothbrushes, 4 floss, stimudent donated by jtill), postage $38.85=$318.89
3) Mosul, Iraq (Stryker Brigade): goods $568.02 (plus 5 toothbrushes from jtill), postage $144.05=$712.07
4) Kirkuk, Iraq (MI): goods $459.01 (plus 2 toothbrushes from jtill), postage $88.95 (6 boxes postage was paid by local optometrist)=$547.96
5) Baghdad, Iraq (Engineers): goods $695.26, postage $113.45=$808.71
f. Ramadi, Iraq (MI): goods $319.71 plus 2 big packages beef jerky from jtill, postage $77.20=$396.91
6) Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo (Psyops): goods $63.68 plus 18 homemade ornaments from JaneAustin, postage $36.00=$99.68
7) Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany (Wounded): goods $83.25 plus 2 packages of homemade ornaments from JaneAustin, postage $10.90=$94.15
8) Bethesda Naval Hospital (wounded): 2 packages of ornaments made by JaneAustin taken there by MJY1288, postage to mail them to him $3.85
Total Value Goods sent to bases and hospitals by patriciaruth: $2720.89
Total Postage: $534.05
Checks sent to team captains and shipping department to help with their expenses: $510
Goods purchased and mailed to VeniVidiVici (which he shipped): $145.60
Clear packaging tape and strapping tape and zipperlock baggies: $52.17
GRAND TOTAL EXPENDITURES: $3962.71
AND that was just what was mailed out by me. If you scroll through the thread for the last couple months you will see an incredible number of boxes filled with goodies sent by many of our Merry Band of Patriots to our servicemen and women in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anyone want to count them?
Anyone who hasn't posted their Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Years care package contents yet, please don't wait any longer, as I am going to start a new thread soon.
A great finish to a great year! Thanks to all of you for your dedication to our cherished men and women in uniform who are serving in harm's way.