As I mentioned in the other thread, I'm looking to sell some shirts to raise some money for the show. Here's my hope - if I can sell at least $2,000 worth of stuff, we can get some new / better shelving and containers for storage for the TVs we store and Doc Oct, and I can pay off some bills without dipping into the bank account.

Full disclosure - the show will have made some money this year. Not much, mind you, but some. The thing is that every year, the budget balloons and it makes it even more dangerous to try to break even. One thing that if we do the show again I want to really make sure is that the budget does not continue to expand next year at least. The above stuff is stuff that we need to do and would normally go into the budget for next year.

What usually happens is that we complete a year, we "make" say $5,000 (where this year will likely end up) and then we respond by raising the budget like we did this year, by more than $30,000, completely negating "making" anything and making the stakes that much higher.

So how can you help? Buy a shirt or two! Shirts are $25 for one, $45 for two, $60 for three and then $20 for each additional shirt after that. I can also throw in either Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball or Star Worlds Arcade Documentaries for $15 apiece. I may also have the 6 dice "MGC" sets, they would be $10 for a set.

The first design (Cartridges) comes as pictured, or also in yellow on grey. The second design with the logo with pinballs we also have on grey. The "flipper" design we also have in grey with a light blue accent, and the "show logo" we have in three different colors, I believe purple, green and red. All of those come in sizing from small to 4X. We also have a couple women's shirts (I know at least the center design) and kids sizing there. The far right shirt comes as kid sizes, and I believe also comes in blue.

I may not be able to ship for a week or so, but your ordering would *greatly* help us make a decision toward next year. $2,000 is a pretty lofty goal, but I think we can get there.

Questions? I'll do my best to answer here. Ready to buy? My email address is loosen at goatstore dot com and I can direct you where to pay from there. I'll check back here for any questions and I will update where we're at.

Oh, finally - seriously, don't just donate any money to this. If you want to donate $100, pick five shirts that you can give away and get five shirts. I feel odd about just taking money because even if we don't run this much like a business, it is still a business at the end of the day.

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Brief updates...

We're sitting at almost exactly $1000 so far, thanks a TON! That will be a huge help. I'd love to get the rest of the way.

The shelving that I want to get, some might work with plywood (And I might just be taking some of us up on building it!), but in particular Doc Oct(s) is like a metric ton - seriously, it's probably relatively close to that - and I want to find a decent way to store it. That would probably need to be metal.

I'm really hoping to get people that would be willing to help paint the video game boxes too. That is probably the bigger task. That, and cleaning out storage so that we aren't taking cases of completely non-essential stuff, like seems to happen every year, and spending a bunch to buy stuff we already have.

Thanks again, everyone

I don't yet have the supplies. My hope is that we can do it in the parking lot of storage, as the boxes are huge and it's a whole bunch. I was planning on buying the supplies when it gets closer to actually being time to make it happen