11.20.09
We have $475 dollars ALREADY!!! That’s going to buy a whole bunch of warmers and then some. God I LOVE THIS PLACE!
I went ahead and purchased a bunch of misc air fresheners to toss into the boxes. A few “trees”, a few Renuzit (?) gel cone deallios and some cool scented sticks that hang from a string. I’m still looking for those “stick ups” that brodie mentioned in comments and will find them. I figured a little selection for different situations couldn’t be a bad thing.
It’s looking like we’re going to be sending a heap load of these warmers already....so I’m thinking.... They have cases of TOE warmers at Costco and I didn’t know they even existed.
Is there anyone out there in the know that could tell me if these are something they might not know about either and could use too?
Other than than how incredibly awesome you all are, that’s the update for now.
I bought a couple boxes of the hand warmers that the troops in Afghanistan seem to really appreciate and that we’re going to buy a bunch of then and send them to Chris Rudzinski’s unit for Christmas…
*exhale*
The guy at the post office was very helpful and we figure I can fit a box of 40 handwarmers ($15 at Costco/40), unopened with room to stuff a few loose ones in one of those flat rate boxes perfectly....and if I purchase and print out the postage online we can mail them for about $10 a box.
Bottom line, $25 will get you one full box. AnnoyingMike said they also appreciate air fresheners and I could, instead of loose handwarmers, jam a whole bunch of them in each box. I haven’t looked into any bulk ones but I can if you all think that’s a good idea.
I still haven’t heard back from my contact about piggy-backing a part of the shipment via the ARMY. This would obviously save us a bunch of money but working out these things takes a little time and it would ship a LOT slower (we’re dealing with the US government here :) and we’re really cutting it close with time so I would like to get started accumulating the funds as we work out the final stuff. But like I said, bottom line/top dollar $25 per box plus maybe a couple bucks extra for the air fresheners. The postage remains the same no matter what fits inside the box. If we mailed them regular postage the case of handwarmers would cost about $20 to ship so this is a pretty good deal.
Same as usual, put “little hotties” in the description line if you go the PayPal route or e-mail me for my PO Box addy.
Just for knowing, I pay $1 for each piece of mail I get there (it’s a nice courtesy so I don’t have to pay for and maintain a monthly box fee in between support endeavors and my birthday and stuff :) so.......I know a lot of you hate PayPal but it’s a real convenient service and costs less that what I have to pay for my mail. I’ve actually been pretty happy with it.
But I understand if you won’t/don’t/can’t bring yourself to use it.
I’ll probably nudge you and this post up every couple of days until maybe the Friday after Thanksgiving and then we’ll see what our options are and get them sent.
Send our fighting men and women some Little Hotties!
OH! If you do decide to mail a check and already have the address please shoot me an e-mail so I know to expect it. They try to call me when stuff comes in but when there’s a deluge and especially with the holiday rush starting up…
I just realized...if I could find some of those pine tree scented air fresheners it would be PERFECT!!!!!!! :D
SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
