Pajama-gram: First Collection Photo!

[windinthemaples]

My husband earned an unexpected day off today. I gathered the money I collected this week from selling my BPAL collection, raffle tickets for the *rest* of my BPAL collection, and my Yuljama! holiday mix CD and we made our merry way to shop at Carter's, Marshalls, and T.J. Maxx.

The clearance sections were kind to our cause. I was able to buy beautiful, high-quality, warm pajamas at reasonable prices ranging from about $3-$10. At Carter's the nicest sales clerk on earth heard about my search for affordable donations, dove into her backroom, and came out with a rack of undisplayed footie pajamas all ringing up under $5. I didn't quite buy all of them, but I *did* walk away with most of their clearance pajama stock.

At TJ Maxx and Marshalls, I had about $180 in returns to make. I traded those returned holiday purchases for store credit and was able to pick up another 20 PJs in larger children's and adult sizes (for teenagers).



Tonight's shopping, with my husband matching everyone's donations dollar-for-dollar and my store returns, yielded a wonderful sixty-seven pajamas for needy children. I'm in love with all of you angels who made that possible. This is the love and goodness, expressed in flannel, footies, and fleece, of twelve LiveJournal members. Thank you! Thank you! A thousand thank you's to artfuldodger, crafty_in_nh, elfinecstasy, hazakaza, kehleyr, lilith42, memory_flow, mermaiden, passionera, strahlend31, suzanna_o and teh_riaz. I hope, somehow, you get to know the true impact, the outward-flowing, ever-multiplying ramifications of your generosity.

The crazy thing? This is just the beginning. Dozens more pajamas, even now, are winging their way here in the mail. The world is full of miracles, of goodness, of light.

Comments

[lilith42.livejournal.com]

:D It is so nice just to see the pile of jammies on the bed. You will be swimming in them before you are done ;)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I have one of those big plastic tubs with the lids and I thought, for sure, it would last me for months before I needed a bigger one for my pajama storage.

Um....no! ;) Four days in and I've already got a towering pile. Ha! I may need to rethink my storage strategies.

Did you get your copy of Yuljama! yet? I'm nervous because I haven't heard anything about it from anyone. Was it that bad? eep! :D

[lilith42.livejournal.com]

Haven't received it yet but for some reason the post office has been a little slow lately (pre holiday season as well). I am sure it will be here soon and I will be jamming out :)

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

Wow! :)
Wonderful, simply wonderful~

I just donated. <3

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

This is too happy for words--it's glowing with love, Rachel~ <333333

[aerialmelodies.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of pjs! How wonderful that you've already reached 69 sets with some more to come via mail. By week's end, perhaps 100 will already be in your sights? :D

[suzanna-o.livejournal.com]

I am glad to be part of it. :)