Do you take the free gift?
As I was making the donations in the boys names, and for my parents, I was greeted with gift choices.
Thank you gifts for making my donation to the Montel Williams MS Foundation.
Dog tags, a cd, a t-shirt, or a catalog of paintings.
I chose no gift.
Sure, all the funding is underwritten by Montel, so the costs of these items and cost of shipping these items, comes out of the administrative funding, but it's money they can use elsewhere in finding a cure I thought.
In past donations I've made to other charities, I have taken the gift.
I've gotten t-shirts and cds before, I think one time I even got a t-shirt and a cd together.
Do you take the gifts when making donations?
EDIT*
If you sponsored me and have not gotten the email to now make your donation, this is what is posted on the Blogathon site;
Every year it happens. Doesn't matter how we send thousands of emails, just the act of doing so lands us in the spam heap for some folks. So please, be sure to check your spam folder for sponsor emails. They will say blogathon.org, and may also say cornerhost on them, as that's the server we sent from.
If you're email still isn't in there, just click the link I posted above and make your donation.
This wasn't about my own personal tally, it was about raising money for a good cause, so paying through the blogathon email link is not a huge deal to me. Just make your donations and we're all good.
Comments
I sat and filled out the forms to make the payments and everything, I noticed the dog-tags at first and thought I wouldn't mind but I didn't.
(allergies, couldn't wear it even if I wanted too).
Then I realized I could get the music. I did ask for that because I enjoy music and thought it would be really nice to hear what he (Montel) would be supporting.
Had I not seen that I was not going to take it. I am looking forward to listening to it.
Once again, you did a great job for a great cause.
Posted by: Diane | August 8, 2007 1:37 PM
I took the CD, too. It just sounded like it would be very cool to have.
Some charities just send out the freebies whether you ask for them or not. Every year, the North Shore Animal League sends me a T-shirt and a tote bag. I shuld tell them that we have enough of those now, that they can skip sending them each year I renew my membership.
Posted by: Christine | August 8, 2007 2:42 PM
Thanks for the reminder. :)
Posted by: Lisa | August 8, 2007 6:01 PM