Hello Steemians! This is day 8 (not posting every day because I don't want to be annoying) of my sustainable goals #upfundme. Day one with all the info of what prompted me to try fundraising for these goals is here, day two is here, day three is here, day four is here, day five is here, day six is here, and day seven is here.

My goal is $75, which in then-calculated prices of Steem/SBD at $1.17 and $1.07 respectively (I haven't updated for the current below-a-dollar prices because I'm being an optimist and hoping they will go back up by the time I have raised my target goal!), makes my goal 64 Steem or 70 SBD. Since the price of the lantern and book both went up, I will probably just be aiming for the lantern and solar panels unless those prices drop again (I had added a how-to book to the wish list because the solar lantern I wanted wasn't enough to get free shipping from Amazon and why waste the money on shipping when you could get a book instead? But it has now crossed that $25 threshold).

I am fundraising for these two items, to make myself more energy efficient, both for the environment and for lowering my electric bill:

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). This lamp is currently $18.99 $26.33 + tax on Amazon.

The eBay order is a solar panel. 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) (now I have a laptop, woohoo!) 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.

I want to give an extra big thank you to everyone who has sent me donations so far!

@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!
@cecicastor for her giving donation of 8 SBD!
@marblely for their generous donation of .5 SBD!
@lyndsaybowes for her awesome donation of 20 Steem!

I appreciate you all and your kindness so much! And again thanks to everyone who has given me an upvote - you rock! 💜 Seven days of upvote money have paid out, so doing rough math as though Steem and SBD are equal, that puts me at 57.518 Steem so far! Woop woop! So close! Solar power, here I come! 😊

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