Hey Kids! How about a DU Donation challenge!

[spacelady]

I will be making my first donation to DU in the next 24 hours & thought it might be fun to see how much my donation would be by issuing a challenge: I will match NEW donation pledges declared in this post up to $100 total. It would only take 10 people pledging $10 apiece to make me cough up $100! So how about it? How much can be made by 5pm CST Tuesday? Of course, this will have to be on the honor system as I have no way to track this! Thanks in advance for your generosity to DU!

P.S.: This has been cleared with Skinner.

[JimmyJazz]

1. I'm in for $10.00

Good luck :)

[spacelady]

2. A great start! Thanks Jimmy Jazz!

[spacelady]

3. Well, I have had some great responses, let's proceed to the goal! n/t

[Ernesto]

4. Good for you spacelady!

You will be quite foxxy with a gold star next to your name!
(made my latest payment a couple o weeks ago)

[spacelady]

5. I am heartened Ernesto, I will enjoy my Gold Star,

you did your part. I am looking forward to a challenge goal with a few more pledges...

[Clintmax]

6. Hey, Spacelady...

I donated for the first time on Sunday morning. So here's another $10.00 you need to match!

The gold star SURE DOES look good next to MY name!

[spacelady]

7. Thanx Clintmax, you are helping the bottom line bigtime! n/t

[spacelady]

8. Well FWIW, I would like to meet the challenge goal...

Please make the effort to meet the challenge goal & then I will shut up! It means more bucks to a truly valuable site.

[spacelady]

9. Only $30 to go counting the GD pledges. n/t

[Chichiri]

10. By NEW donation pledges, do you mean . . .

new pledges for this quarterly drive? or pledges from first-time donors?

[spacelady]

11. Pledges from the time the challenge was made--5pm CST 8/15/05

But I will fudge for very recent ones--the more the merrier for DU

[Chichiri]

12. Put me down for $5, then

[spacelady]

13. Cool, Thank You! n/t

[Chichiri]

16. I have donated . . . what's the running count, spacelady?

[spacelady]

14. So far, I will be matching $75 in donation pledges...

anybody up for making the $100 goal?

[spacelady]

15. My goal was just surpassed in GD, so I am gladly coughing up

the matching funds. Thanks all!

[Clintmax]

17. Thank YOU, SpaceLady!

I'm SURE DU thanks you too! Great idea!