Pickin' for Sick Children: New Additions and nearling the $4,000 mark!

Monday, January 19, 2009

New Additions and nearling the $4,000 mark!

First, the good news. as of this posting, I have mailed another $700 check to Children's Hospital from pick sales and another round from eBay sales generated about another $850. I say "about" because I need to calculate the total that is to go to the Hospital. Total sales going to the Hospital would be awesome, but eBay and Pay Pal take their cuts. So, by my calculations, in just over a year we have been able to give The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin nearly $4,000!

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE DONATED AND / OR BOUGHT PICKS FOR THIS CAUSE!!!

Now, in the past week, the mighty Metallica and their equally mighty crew came to town and were very generous. Between the several people I spoke to, a total of 84 picks were donated. Thank you to Zack, Chad, Justin, Mike, Dewey and Lou for all of your help in either giving the picks to the fundraiser or pointing me to the proper people to talk to. I am certain that your help will generate a lot of money for the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. So, without any further ado, here are the Metallica picks which were donated:

Touring with Metallica were Machine Head and The Sword. Andy and Brian with Machine Head went out of their way to donate a total of 274 picks, including an entire bag of the blue picks seen below. I want to thank these men for being not only generous, but gracious in giving me the time to talk to them and go through their cases despite being quite busy. Thanks again, gentlemen!