I don't want to overwhelm my followers with these all the time, even though #upfundme allows daily or even twice daily posting, so I thought maybe every couple of days would be OK. I'm already halfway there, thanks to some generous donations from fellow Steemians right to my wallet! Thank you! 💜

A super big thank you to:

@novacadian who so generously donated 20 Steem!
@kpreddy for his kind donation of .5 SBD!
@crimson.spectrum for their thoughtful donation of 1.5 SBD!
@shikika for her caring donation of 1 Steem!
and everyone who upvoted our resteemed the first post! I appreciate all of you! 💛

Just these donations alone, at yesterday's crypto values, put me at $32.28 out of a dollar goal of $65!

The first post with the full explanation is here, but here is just the part about what I am fundraising for:

You might remember a while back I attempted to make an investment in this vein by purchasing a small solar panel + battery, with the idea I could charge my Kindle (which is my computer, and getting more glitchy by the day) and phone on it, putting a little dent in my electric bill. Unfortunately, the battery pack part works fine, but the solar panel is near useless. So item #1 is a better solar panel which can plug into the battery pack and make the system functional. It costs about the same as the battery pack did, at $32.98 plus tax.

Item #2 is a solar lantern. I mostly work by one lamp at night anyway, and (hopefully) this one charges itself so it wouldn't be a load on the solar panel, either (LED lights generally are easy to charge with their solar panels, so it shouldn't be a problem). These two things would take care of a fair % of my electric needs, besides appliances. This lamp is currently $18.99 + tax on Amazon.

Since shipping on Amazon is free if you spend $25, I added a book I've had on my wish list for years, because it will help me learn how to do more things for myself. The description, taken from Amazon: "Growing vegetables and raising livestock is only the beginning of a successful homestead — that fresh food goes to waste unless you can properly prepare, cook, and preserve it. Andrea Chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, milling flour, working with sourdough, baking no-knead breads, making braises and stews that can be adapted to different cuts of meat, rendering lard and tallow, pickling, making butter and cheese, making yogurt, blanching vegetables for the freezer, making jams and jellies, drying produce, and much more. You’ll learn all the techniques you need to get the most from homegrown foods, along with dozens of simple and delicious recipes, most of which can be adapted to use whatever you have available."

That sounds like a wealth of useful knowledge to me, most of which I do not know. It would for sure help me be more sustainable, but in a different way. The book is currently $8.53 plus tax.

I estimated 7% tax on everything, for a grand total of $64.74. So my fundraising goal will be $65, which at today's prices would be 52 SBD or 45.14 Steem.

I'm sure a lot of people would think this is a silly fundraiser, but just like whenever I got a tool from the list of tools to build a tiny house, I felt like I was a little closer to my dream, this would feel like that too. It would be big to me. 💚

Thank you to anyone who sees fit to upvote this fundraiser. I appreciate you! 💙

That Red Fish your momma always warned you about

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