This is so bad

[cleolinda]

Oh my God. I just found out that we're going to have to pay $6200 in taxes--in part because we didn't realize they weren't withholding them already from my stepfather's military pension or whatever it is. We're going to get about half of that $6200 back, but that's the problem: we have to pay it all first in order to get any back. And this is on

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[hippydippymama]

I bet some autographed copies would fetch a fair price on eBay!

Can you donate plasma?

[cleolinda]

Actually, I can't donate blood--antidepressants in the bloodstream, they won't take it. : (

[cleolinda]

Yeah, there's a whole checklist of things. Do you have various diseases, have you engaged in whatever behavior in whatever recent amount of time, and so on. I discovered this at a blood drive in college.

[sneaky_minx]

Oh god, hon, that's horrible! *hugs*

I'd be happy to help you out in any way. You're on my f-list, so I'll be able to keep an eye on your posts to see what I can do/buy. Keep us updated!

[belladancerela]

Uhm...well, I bought m15m! :]] So, technically, I contributed. Hahah.

[cleolinda]

Wait, I'm not sure I do remember Capewatch...

[cleolinda]

OH CAPEWATCH! I'm such a dumbass, I was imagining something with superheroes. And here I wrote about it and I don't even remember it.

[particle_person]

Wow, sorry to hear that. ursulav just had the same thing happen yesterday. She made some new art to try to cover the costs.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I saw that. My mother was all like, "Sell some news 15Ms to the highest bidder!" But the problem with that is, it's not like a piece of art that you can hang in your home, while other people can look at a scan of it. I feel like if I put a piece up for auction, and the buyer was (obviously) not obligated to share it, I would take so much shit for that. (See also, on a MUCH grander scale, to the millionth power: JKR's "Beedle the Bard" auction.) It's not the kind of thing I would even consider, normally--you start thinking of it when you desperately need the money, but even then, pissing people off wouldn't be worth it, when there's surely something else we can do.

[particle_person]

Yeah, I pretty much came to the same conclusion after I wrote that. I don't have any great suggestions, unless you want to sell tiles to Scrabulous players. ("Would you like to buy a vowel?")

[particle_person]

More seriously: Could you pump up the Café Press store again and do some t-shirts and stuff for the newer M15Ms?