[Lups]

Our Halloween costume thread paid for two goats for some family in a third world country thanks to our clear winner bimmette donating the promised gift card for one too. Let's do this again, for a good cause people!

Ideas have been flying around, we could collect money for a shelter somewhere in the USA (I have a few all around this country that truly deserve any cent they can get, and the people running them are personal friends of mine and they'd be more than willing to show us what this will provide for them) or we could sponsor some organization that has a high percentage for delivering the given money to those in need anywhere.

So far people have suggested a secret Santa (what ever that is, sounds like shopping required) handled via bimmette.

Prostituting Axius and Mr Tonka , the owner of the sexiest pair of legs in Bimmerpost (this might have mild legal issues but we already have bids)

Christmas card contest, no idea how we could make anyone pay for anyone's art work since old Billie was banished.

So, ideas or interest?

[MrPrena]

I think we should focus 1 on contet and 1 on newcomer who start to be active on OT. This will generate more fun people into OT.

[Lups]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

I think we should focus 1 on contet and 1 on newcomer who start to be active on OT. This will generate more fun people into OT.

Dude. I'll put in extra 20 for an other Tonka shot for sure but I can't condone selling them to ASBSECU E93 for the night. The man would make them stay up all night taking pics with his donkey. That ain't fair to the donkey.

[MrPrena]

I don't think raising the fund for prize won't be the problem. Even if people paypal transfer $1 each per active OT member, it would be over $50.

I would like to get the participation rate higher, and new OT members getting active.
I think leg humpers should donate more when there are more new OT Female members who becomes active here.

[MrPrena]

oops, i misread the thread. I thought it was a contest/secret santa. hahahhahaahhaahha

[Mr Tonka]

just typed this in the other thread.....

Originally Posted by C5driver

Great ideas, but the debil is in the you know what. I have a PP business account that accepts CC.

What we need is a contest, a buy in, and a cause/charity.

A bit busy right now, but let's try and make this happen.

One detail down. You've got the means to accept money from people who don't have a paypal account. I trust you to hold the cash, i would imagine most others would as well. I only suggested Bimmette because i'm pretty sure everyone here trusts her with their money and addresses.

One of the reasons i gravitated towards the Secret Santa is because of participation. Take the Halloween contest for instance. 10 submissions. 88 votes, but 2 submissions got 75% of the votes and one of those was a joke. Jake from State Farm was a fantastic idea, not a single vote. In my opinion, there isn't a lot of incentive to participate in a contest where the winner is decided by BP user votes.

With Secret Santa, everyone who participates gets some action. Sure there will be some inequities, but as you stated, the point of participation is to help those in need.

As Biorin pointed out, hopping on Amazon and picking up a gift, having it shipped directly is a pretty easy and simple endeavor.

Originally Posted by bimmette

Uhhh, thanks

Although, I wouldn't trust any of you freaks with addresses either

Wait, are you guys actually willing to share addresses? Or is this going to be amongst 5 people

I did a Secret Santa in a gun forum last year. It was pretty easy. One person facilitated.

You PM them your name, address, shirt size, and a description of the things your interested in. Once, say... Dec 10th rolls around the person facilitating draws from a bowl to decide who gets who. They PM the person their gift recipient's original PM with Name, address, etc... and it's self automated from that point on.

Once the gifts start arriving members post pictures of what they received and hilarity/love fest ensues. (depending on how funny or thoughtful the gifts were)

I'm down for whatever and will do my best to participate in whatever is decided upon. However i do think we'd get a better participation rate if everyone participating gets something in return other than the satisfaction of helping people in need.

I for one am ok with Lups choosing the charity, even multiple charities and percentage in which they get divided between.

With regards to participation i could see getting maybe 20 participants. At $10 that's $200, I'll match what ever the "entry fees" are. That's $400, if someone else with match the entry fees, that's $600 and Biorin will match at least double what we put in. That's another $400 brining the total donated to $1,000....... Lups , how far will that go with your "go to" charities?

Not bad for a bunch of douchebags driving BMWs and a stray Range Rover. lol

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

just typed this in the other thread.....

One detail down. You've got the means to accept money from people who don't have a paypal account. I trust you to hold the cash, i would imagine most others would as well. I only suggested Bimmette because i'm pretty sure everyone here trusts her with their money and addresses.

One of the reasons i gravitated towards the Secret Santa is because of participation. Take the Halloween contest for instance. 10 submissions. 88 votes, but 2 submissions got 75% of the votes and one of those was a joke. Jake from State Farm was a fantastic idea, not a single vote. In my opinion, there isn't a lot of incentive to participate in a contest where the winner is decided by BP user votes.

With Secret Santa, everyone who participates gets some action. Sure there will be some inequities, but as you stated, the point of participation is to help those in need.

As Biorin pointed out, hopping on Amazon and picking up a gift, having it shipped directly is a pretty easy and simple endeavor.



I did a Secret Santa in a gun forum last year. It was pretty easy. One person facilitated.

You PM them your name, address, shirt size, and a description of the things your interested in. Once, say... Dec 10th rolls around the person facilitating draws from a bowl to decide who gets who. They PM the person their gift recipient's original PM with Name, address, etc... and it's self automated from that point on.

Once the gifts start arriving members post pictures of what they received and hilarity/love fest ensues. (depending on how funny or thoughtful the gifts were)

I'm down for whatever and will do my best to participate in whatever is decided upon. However i do think we'd get a better participation rate if everyone participating gets something in return other than the satisfaction of helping people in need.

I for one am ok with Lups choosing the charity, even multiple charities and percentage in which they get divided between.

With regards to participation i could see getting maybe 20 participants. At $10 that's $200, I'll match what ever the "entry fees" are. That's $400, if someone else with match the entry fees, that's $600 and Biorin will match at least double what we put in. That's another $400 brining the total donated to $1,000....... Lups , how far will that go with your "go to" charities?

Not bad for a bunch of douchebags driving BMWs and a stray Range Rover. lol

Our image is solid, don't worry. Who on earth would think this would be nothing but a scam!

If we come up with a theme people are willing to work with, the thread that will come from this will be epic fun for a good cause!

And $20 for an other good shot of those hairy legs of yours seen again!

[Mr Tonka]

Bad Holiday Sweater picture is another idea, but not many people have them or want to spend the time making / finding one. Lots of people like Halloween and we only got 10 submissions. If people would pay $100 to enter, great. Otherwise, we're not looking at generating a decent amount of scratch.

Secret Santa is where everyone gives a gift to someone else anonymously. You also receive a gift, but you don't know who from. Low spending limit, Amazon makes it easy. Cons are that you have to be ok with giving your address to the person facilitating and the person sending you a gift.

[shoei]

i'm in... charitable functions while noble will take A LOT more than $10, even with the x2 generosity and x4 generosity of biorin...

secret santa - makes sense, most of you all seem pretty tight with one another, although I imagine there will be some prank gift in there like oh say an exploding vibrator or whatnot...

this time of year, personally I would rather if we do charity it go to some kids / toys, etc... while being homeless sucks, some of these kids in group homes / orphanages have it far worse - will be homeless if not adopted by a certain age and not having christmas gifts to open kind of blows... or if you end up getting an HB pencil or two and an eraser...

or we could all chip in for a mail order bride / groom for Belgium... either or...

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Lups

Our image is solid, don't worry. Who on earth would think this would be nothing but a scam!

If we come up with a theme people are willing to work with, the thread that will come from this will be epic fun for a good cause!

And $20 for an other good shot of those hairy legs of yours seen again!

We'll find a way to work that in. If we do secret santa and i get you, i know what i'm sending you in a 20"x30" frame.

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Bad Holiday Sweater picture is another idea, but not many people have them or want to spend the time making / finding one. Lots of people like Halloween and we only got 10 submissions. If people would pay $100 to enter, great. Otherwise, we're not looking at generating a decent amount of scratch.

Secret Santa is where everyone gives a gift to someone else anonymously. You also receive a gift, but you don't know who from. Low spending limit, Amazon makes it easy. Cons are that you have to be ok with giving your address to the person facilitating and the person sending you a gift.

Hahaha, yeah that is true. the only way around it is that someone gets everyone's addresses and our money and she sends all the presents. I will not volunteer for this, I have a shopping allergy, and I'd cheat. I'd send you some fishnet stockings.

We need a great contest, even if the winner only gets to pick where we put the money, and we can easily use the threads we have for photo collection contests, and again prostitution is an option. The world is ours!

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by shoei

i'm in... charitable functions while noble will take A LOT more than $10, even with the x2 generosity and x4 generosity of biorin...

secret santa - makes sense, most of you all seem pretty tight with one another, although I imagine there will be some prank gift in there like oh say an exploding vibrator or whatnot...

this time of year, personally I would rather if we do charity it go to some kids / toys, etc... while being homeless sucks, some of these kids in group homes / orphanages have it far worse - will be homeless if not adopted by a certain age and not having christmas gifts to open kind of blows... or if you end up getting an HB pencil or two and an eraser...

or we could all chip in for a mail order bride / groom for Belgium... either or...

I don't wan't to make it seem like i'm viewing SS as the Mona Lisa of ideas, it just makes sense to me, especially having participated with one in another forum before.

Plus, look at the feels we all have from sending 2 goats to families. With a decent SS turn out we could have the means to send 20 goats out. Or we can divide the total take between a few worthwhile causes.

[Lups]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

We'll find a way to work that in. If we do secret santa and i get you, i know what i'm sending you in a 20"x30" frame.

Oh lol, lets make it 50. It would be on my mantle forever in my man cave. I bet my friends back home will be extra pleased, the men have excellent taste.

[shoei]

when you all keep mentioning goats, I keep envisioning these poor goats being violated by terrorists in some mountainous region as part of their recruiting tactics... =/

[Lups]

Originally Posted by shoei

i'm in... charitable functions while noble will take A LOT more than $10, even with the x2 generosity and x4 generosity of biorin...

secret santa - makes sense, most of you all seem pretty tight with one another, although I imagine there will be some prank gift in there like oh say an exploding vibrator or whatnot...

this time of year, personally I would rather if we do charity it go to some kids / toys, etc... while being homeless sucks, some of these kids in group homes / orphanages have it far worse - will be homeless if not adopted by a certain age and not having christmas gifts to open kind of blows... or if you end up getting an HB pencil or two and an eraser...

or we could all chip in for a mail order bride / groom for Belgium... either or...

There went my beer to my screen. Thanks.

[SaM335ic]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

Bad Holiday Sweater picture is another idea, but not many people have them or want to spend the time making / finding one. Lots of people like Halloween and we only got 10 submissions. If people would pay $100 to enter, great. Otherwise, we're not looking at generating a decent amount of scratch.

Secret Santa is where everyone gives a gift to someone else anonymously. You also receive a gift, but you don't know who from. Low spending limit, Amazon makes it easy. Cons are that you have to be ok with giving your address to the person facilitating and the person sending you a gift.

I would be in for the Holiday sweaters . And also there probably has to be some form of Secret Santa web sight program to help keep anonymous. but a good most of the people who know me on here already know my location so what ever is fine by me.

[AlpineE92M3]

I'm in, I don't know about the whole prostitution part, but I'm willing to throw in some $ for charity. My wife and I donate to st. Jude regularly so I would love to help out. The fishnet stockings are a bit much, but I can pull out an ugly sweater for a good cause. Let me know what you want from me, ( just make it G-rated ), and I'll oblige.

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by shoei

i'm in... charitable functions while noble will take A LOT more than $10, even with the x2 generosity and x4 generosity of biorin...

secret santa - makes sense, most of you all seem pretty tight with one another, although I imagine there will be some prank gift in there like oh say an exploding vibrator or whatnot...

this time of year, personally I would rather if we do charity it go to some kids / toys, etc... while being homeless sucks, some of these kids in group homes / orphanages have it far worse - will be homeless if not adopted by a certain age and not having christmas gifts to open kind of blows... or if you end up getting an HB pencil or two and an eraser...

or we could all chip in for a mail order bride / groom for Belgium... either or...

I agree. Secret Santa or contest would be a good way to go. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too much $. Just for fun.
I already donated lots and lots of can/dry foods to homeless off of one of the local church, even when my monthly is (1000)/mo losses.

[shoei]

i'm... allergic to sweaters... especially holiday ones...

[Lups]

Originally Posted by SaM335ic

I would be in for the Holiday sweaters . And also there probably has to be some form of Secret Santa web sight program to help keep anonymous. but a good most of the people who know me on here already know my location so what ever is fine by me.

Most locals know where I live too, and sometimes I think most of bimmerpost has my phone number.

[bimmette]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

I don't wan't to make it seem like i'm viewing SS as the Mona Lisa of ideas, it just makes sense to me, especially having participated with one in another forum before.

Plus, look at the feels we all have from sending 2 goats to families. With a decent SS turn out we could have the means to send 20 goats out. Or we can divide the total take between a few worthwhile causes.

Stop saying "SS". I keep thinking you're talking about SugarSkulls! Hahaha


Yeah, yeah, I can be the keeper of addresses and monies. Although maybe we create a gofundme account so that it's more transparent?

[shoei]

Originally Posted by AlpineE92M3

I'm in, I don't know about the whole prostitution part, but I'm willing to throw in some $ for charity. My wife and I donate to st. Jude regularly so I would love to help out. The fishnet stockings are a bit much, but I can pull out an ugly sweater for a good cause. Let me know what you want from me, ( just make it G-rated ), and I'll oblige.

G-Rated??!!! there is nothing in this thread that's G-Rated... we already talked about prostituting, fishnet stockings, vibrators, mail order brides, and lups is getting hammered by herself in front of the computer... We passed G rated A LONG time ago...