Six pack .................................... $5.00
Large pizza ............................... $10.00
"Block O" hat ............................. $20.00
Buckeye sweatshirt..................... $50.00
Ticket to the 'Shoe.................... $100.00
Talking about the game on BP .... priceless
Priceless ... and free. Free, that is, to each of our 1,679 active members except for one - Clarity, the man whose vision brought us BuckeyePlanet in the first place, and whose generosity has kept it a free site for the past five years. For Clarity, BuckeyePlanet is an expense - a big expense, and growing. Each year, as traffic increases and inflation takes its toll, it becomes more and more expensive "to keep the lights on" here at BP ... and less and less viable to keep BP a free site.
Of course, if Clarity were independently wealthy - or even comfortably well-off - none of this would be an issue, as he is the type of guy who would gladly foot the entire bill for running BP (estimated to be about $8,000.00 for 2008), just so a bunch of people he doesn't even know can have a "free" place to talk about Buckeye sports, Charlie Weis, RichRod, Mike "0-4" Hart, video games, presidential politics, music and movies, groundhog removal techniques, LOLcats, red wine, Al Gore, cheerleaders, and fiery crashes. But as most of you already know, Clarity isn't comfortably well-off, and he simply can't afford to run BP without some help from those of us who frequent this Planet, and expend his resources in the process.
So, in order to support BP and Clarity, we periodically hold a fund-raising drive. Of course, like any other fund-raising drive, participation in ours is completely voluntary - regardless of what you do, BP will remain a free site - some how, some way - because that's the way that Clarity wants it. But think about it for a minute - isn't the best Buckeye site on the net worth at least a six pack of beer and a large pizza? That's just $1.25 per month, and I think it's safe to say that each and every one of us could afford to spend a buck and a quarter a month to help pay the bills around here.
To those of you who have given something already, I thank you and applaud your efforts ... now think about giving just a little bit more - I know that I'll be sending another check to Clarity next week. For the 96% of you who haven't given anything, take a minute to think about doing so - $50.00 might seem like a lot of money right now, but on a monthly basis, it amounts to the cost of a gallon of gas. Our unofficial goal for this drive was $8,000.00, and we're still a little short ($5,601.29 received plus $1,155.00 in monthly pledges for the remainder of the year, for a grand total of $6,756.29 pledged for 2008). As the saying goes, every little bit helps....
) can tell us the amount of the smallest single donation that's been made thus far. That way, imho, everybody will see that pretty much that there's no reason to feel that we need to pitch in huge amounts. Any donation helps.
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