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Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 8168
West Chester, Ohio 45069-8168
June 29, 2009, Fund-Raising Appeal Letter
Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 8168• West Chester, Ohio 45069-8168
June 29, 2009
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Dear Friends:
Well, it's emergency time again. What can I say? Regular donations would keep me from having to write these emergency appeal letters. Alas, we must accept the lack of regular donations as within the the Providence of God and thus place ourselves once again in a position of having to make an emergency appeal.
This emergency appeal is prompted by the depletion of our funds to pay our regular, fixed expenses, itemized below, and by unexpected automobile and motor home repairs. New front brakes on the TrailBlazer are a necessity as the right front brake is providing us with that old, familiar sound of "metal scraping on metal." Not good. And the motor home, into which we have poured a great deal of money and do not want to see destroyed by water leaks, is need of $600 of repairs to re-seal its roof, which has several tears through which rain water pours ins rather liberally. The rain water has resulted in a bad case of dry rot, which must be treated.
Here is what we need to raise at this time for the emergency expenses, not including the expenses itemized below:
Front brakes and rotors (with labor) for the TrailBlazer: $600.00-$700.00
Roof repairs for the motor home: $600.00
New Blue Ox Towbar: $760.89
Approximate Total for emergency needs: $2000.00
Although it is the case that the "usual suspects" continue to give to us most sacrifically, most of the readers of this site have never given anything in its support. Not a thing. Not one dollar. Not two dollars. Not three dollars. Not once. We are totally dependent upon the making of non-tax-deductible financial gifts to us by those who support the work of this site and have the means (even a dollar or two dollars) to do so.
Recognizing that everything is within the Providence of God and that we must accept the cross represented by the constant effort to ask the readers of this site for even a modest one dollar non-tax-deductible financial gift, it would be very helpful if more readers who support this site and have a dollar or two to spare would put that dollar or two in the mail or send it to us via PayPal.
As I have noted in the past, I have resisted the temptation over the years to make this a "pay-per-view," subscriber-based site. I will continue to do so as it is important to make the site available to the "passers by" who would not otherwise have access to its articles. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother and His foster-father, Good Saint Joseph, have blessed us abundantly in our times of real need. This has kept us very much on our knees. That is, of course, where we, contingent beings whose bodies are destined for the corruption of the grave until the General Judgment of the Living and the Dead on the Last Day, belong.
We are, of course, very grateful for the non-tax-deductible financial gifts that made possible the purchase of our manufactured home, which will provide us with a regular daily routine once we complete all of the assorted matters associated with moving into a new house. Those who made this great miracle possible will always be in our prayers. We are simply amazed at the wonder and magnificence of the Providence of God, Who whisked us out of our uncertain lives in the motor home to be able to live reasonably near the glories given to God at Saint Gertrude the Great Church.
The purpose of this fund-raising appeal letter is to make a plea in connection with our emergency expenses at this time as well as to remind you once again of our monthly living expenses so that those of you who are able and willing to make non-tax-deductible financial gifts to us will have accurate, up-to-date information upon which to base your decision to assist us.
We did expend the entirety my annual payout from my teachers' retirement annuity last month in order to purchase a dining room table and its four chairs, two beds and a recliner chair. It would be nice to recoup those funds as I had allotted them originally for living expenses. However, I do want to restate in this new fund-raising letter the list of our new monthly expenses that I itemized on May 13, 2009.
I have itemized our monthly expenses in one fund raising appeal letter after another. The expenses I have itemized are fixed. We have been able, at least up until now, to hold our financial heads above water despite lacking any sustained, predictable source of income. As should be evident, we have been forced to make yet another emergency appeal because of the lack of regular non-tax-deductible financial gifts
We need your help. We need your help now.
As I have explained in other fund-raising appeals, I am a horrible fund-raiser. I despise having to ask for these non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Ask I must, however.
Readers of this site know that long hours of work go into the production of the articles that appear hereon. The numbers of those who respond to these fund-raising appeal letters are miniscule in comparison to the people who access this site. I am asking more of you who have the means to be of assistance--and, of course--who support the work of this site to make an urgent non-tax-deductible financial gift to us now, today, Monday, June 29, 2009.
Once again, here is a review of our monthly expenses, which I have itemized for you in the past:
Monthly payment for the Chevrolet Trail Blazer: $361.00
Monthly payment for insurance on the Trail Blazer: $106.00
Monthly payment for home-owners' insurance on the manufactured home: $48.00
Monthly payment for insurance on the motor home:$50.00
Monthly payment for cellular phone service: $200.00 (three different numbers, including the wireless aircard for my computer to connect to the internet.
Monthly payment to pay off two closed credit card accounts: $700.00 (paying off three credit cards to be credit-card debt free by February 1, 2010.)
Monthly payment for life insurance policy: $70.00
Monthly payment for fax service: $36.00
Monthly payment for website hosting: $25.00
Monthly rent for the property on which our manufactured home is situated: $397.00
Monthly dry cleaning expenses: $40.00
Weekly expenses for gasoline: $50.00.
Monthly expenses for groceries and supplies: $300.00
Monthly expenses for paper and ink jet cartridges: $125.00
Monthly expenses for propane gas to provide heat and hot water for the motor home: $275.00
Estimated monthly expenses for water, natural gas, and electricity: $270.00
Other monthly miscellaneous expenses (for car repairs, unexpected emergencies, medication): $200.00 (we just had to take Lucy to an ophthalmologist, for example, which cost $65.00)
Total of monthly expenses: $2968.00
Naturalists in the political realm can raise millions upon millions of dollars in a flash It is not within God's Holy Providence for us to have that kind of assistance. We must, therefore, ask you, the readers of this site who have the means to be of assistance and who support this site's work, to help us right now and to provide whatever monthly support that your means permit. I would be especially grateful if those of you who have not given up until now would consider doing so to take the burden off of those how contribute regularly.
The work is done to give honor and glory to God and to try to help souls see the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith. It would be, as I have noted so many times before, helpful to receive financial gifts from readers who have never given before and who support the work of this site and have the means to be of some modest help to us, especially now.
We entrust all to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary during this Season of Lent.
Can we count on your help--today?
As always, we remain grateful to those good and generous souls who have been so kind to us, without whose assistance we would not have been able to pay bills in major emergencies or to even meet our daily expenses. We simply need more of this site's readership (those, once again, who have the means to make gifts and who support the work of the site) to join their ranks on a regular basis. I do not believe that this is asking too much, especially as there have been 740 original articles posted on this site since the beginning of 2006. I do try to provide a "return" on the non-tax-deductible gifts that are send to us.
Those who do support the work of this site but who cannot make a non-tax-deductible financial gift to us should have no compunction whatsoever about reading my articles. Just as it is the case that each of us is supported by the prayers of many people whom we will only meet personally in eternity, please God and by His Most Blessed Mother's maternal intercession we die in states of Sanctifying Grace, so is it the case that non-tax-deductible financial gifts offered by those able to offer them make it possible for those without the means to donate to have access to this site. Those who cannot support the work of this site financially but who do profit from its contents should simply pray for the site's benefactors in thanksgiving for making it possible for the work to continue.
Once again, as should be obvious, we are not asking those who do not support and/or are adamantly opposed to the work of site to be at all sympathetic to this request. We are simply asking those who do support the work of this site--and who have the financial means to make a donation--to make a gift, either by PayPal (click on the icon above or below) or via the "snail mail" to our post office box in West Chester, Ohio, as soon as possible. As noted above, if only a fraction of those gave us between $2 and $5 right now we would be able to meet the expenses itemized above and to meet our monthly expenses. Please consider helping us today.
As I have noted frequently in the past two years now, donations to us personally are not tax-deductible. "All" you will get for supporting the work of this site is the eternal merit for your generosity--and a remembrance of your intentions in our daily prayers. Remember, any one individual can make a gift of up to $12,000.00 in any calendar year without any tax liability to them or to us.
We are always in need of your generosity to meet our daily and monthly expenses.
Will you help us out?
Please know of our prayers every day.
Our Lady of Good Success, pray for us!
Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Saint Peters and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint Andrew the Apostle, pray for us.
Saint Gertrude, pray for us.
Saint Hyacinth, for us.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,pray for us.
Saint Agatha, pray for us.
Saint Lucy, pray for us.
Saint John Damascene, pray for us.
Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen,
Thomas A. Droleskey
Personal gifts that do not qualify for a tax deduction may be sent to:
Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey
Post Office Box 8168
West Chester, Ohio 45069-8168
Please note that the old post office box in Connecticut has been closed. Please use the address listed on the letterhead and repeated immediately above.
