MDCC 31ts August!!!

[ilove2patch]

Are you listing? I have a couple of things ready but it's snuck up on me again!!!

[rainydaywoman11]

Can anyone PM me with Ed's paypoo details please and I'll pay her.

Dear Maggie, I am so sorry about the sum your friend's quilt went for.  I don't know what to say now about MDCC, I tried everything, making things, buying things to sell, selling (expensive) things of my own and, by and large, but for the generosity of the buyers I would not have made much at all.  I actually stopped because my illness made me unreliable in making and/or posting out.  Perhaps it is time to have a pow wow or maybe that has been done before too, before my time.  I know well the work that will have gone into making the piece, such a shame.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Just on my way to computer Carol give me five minutes

[merc1_clocks]

 Just waiting for one payment...

[stan3502]

Ed you have mail xxx

[ed_blackadder_1]

YHM Carol.

Shame about the quilt Maggie  for any of us that make things there is so much time and effort involved.

If I sell a card for £1.50 freepost it costs £1.20 to post (the 3d ones because they don't fit through the smaller slot) 15p to ebay and the amount to paypal so I am lucky to make 10p, some of these cards can take upwards of an hour to make,  not exactly going to make my fortune.

Luckily with MDCC a lot of people are extremely generous because it is for charity.  I always pay the postage myself so the charity gets all the money.

I don't know how things could be done differently though.

[merc1_clocks]

 As you all know I knit...

 wool is so expensive, & the time I spend with the knitting, stuffing, sewing up & adornments...& because there is no P&P, often it has cost me more to sell, than the payment made ( there are exceptions, & I hope you know who you are )...

but, at the end of the day, we are doing it for charity, & it is in the lap of the Gods.

 Maggie, who knows, another MDCC may have brought in oodles of money for the quilt...it is of course heartbreaking, but we just take our chances on the day.

 Personally, I know for me, it costs me way more than I would ever make in sales...but I just love that feeling of saying " I am donating x amount " to wherever...just my thoughts 

[stan3502]

Whether we make or buy I think most of us are usually out of pocket by the end of mdcc, I offer free postage so yet another blow to the purse but like merc I do like to take part and be able to send on some pennies each month as it all adds up over the year

[ed_blackadder_1]

I  worked out the other day, that thanks to the generosity of my buyers I have sent nearly £250 to my two charities over the time I have been doing it. So it is worth it, and as others have said I do enjoy making things to sell for a good cause and I know the charities appreciate it.

Please don't think I was complaining in my above post because I am not, I love doing it.

[merc1_clocks]

 Can I also add, with no prejudice whatsoever...

 whoever won the quilt - enjoy, & please don't feel badly by whatever the final payment was.

[stan3502]

Thanks to my buyers and bidders this month I managed to send Ed £25 for her chosen charity Diabetes uk which I really pleased with.

Also managed to bag myself a lovely little pressie for Miss S for xmas

[ed_blackadder_1]

A BIG THANK YOU TO STAN FOR HER DONATION TO MY CHARITY.

                     THANK YOU

[stan3502]

You are more than welcome my dear xxxxx

[ed_blackadder_1]

Cooo eeeeeee   Maggie can I have your paypal addy please, thank you.

[ilove2patch]

I know money is tight so should not have said anything really. I just feel bad for my friend who made it. The winner was not someone from FHG but a friend who can not really afford what she paid for it but was trying to help me. I will only list small things from now on that won't matter how much they raise.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Dont worry we know what you meant.

Thanks to stan and my wonderful bidder I will be sending £45 to Diabetes UK,   I thank you.

[merc1_clocks]

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@ilove2patch wrote:

I know money is tight so should not have said anything really. I just feel bad for my friend who made it. The winner was not someone from FHG but a friend who can not really afford what she paid for it but was trying to help me. I will only list small things from now on that won't matter how much they raise.

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 Maggie - the stress of selling something that a friend has donated, must be horrendous.

 You did the best that you could possibly do - please don't feel down-hearted 

[rainydaywoman11]

Gawd, I go away for 5 minutes and come back feeling like a tight fisted old sow, which I am not.

I just find it more productive now to give to my cancer charities directly because I have had the privilege to see how they work.  I asked, as only I would (my consultant said) and it was granted.  I also give every month in the form of purchasing something from someone on MDCC, or, if there is nothing I wish to buy I donate towards someone's materials.

Each to their own, I just felt terribly badly for Maggie.

[stan3502]

RDW we knew exactly what you meant and there is certainly nothing tight fisted about you xx

[ed_blackadder_1]

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@rainydaywoman11 wrote:

Gawd, I go away for 5 minutes and come back feeling like a tight fisted old sow, which I am not.

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Definitely not Carol,

[ilove2patch]

Carol you are one of the kindest & most generous people I know so stop being silly you daft woman! lol