Shop for PC

Today I made a $6.38 donation to PC Project. We’ll, sort of. I actually wanted to buy some things at one of my favorite on-line shopping stores, Eddie Bauer. But instead of going straight to the Eddie Bauer website, I first got on this – the PC Project website -and checked the box “Help us Raise Funds by Shopping Through our Marketplace.” (You can even see the box at the left of the page while you’re reading this Jan’s Corner right now.) So I clicked that box, typed in “Eddie” in the search box and there was the same old Eddie Bauer website I’ve shopped at many times previously. I proceeded to shop, placed my order, and about a week later my purchases were delivered to my door, same old deal.

And then today, about two weeks after placing that order, PC Project got a statement in the mail saying Eddie Bauer had donated $6.38 to PC Project because of my purchase! I was so excited – and it was all for things I was going to purchase anyway.

Now maybe $6.38 doesn’t seem like that very much money, but it was thrilling for me to know that I had done something so very simple and PC Project had received that much more money to go directly towards research.

I am just one person, and in the big scheme of things, I really don’t do a lot, but that day, I made a difference. I’ve checked out all the stores that are listed on that “Fundraising Marketplace” and found not only do I shop at a number of them, my friends and family members do too. (I’m now telling them all about how to go through our website to shop.) I cringe to think I’ve actually bought things online from some of those stores without accessing them first through PC Project’s website. Never again – it’s too easy to not help in such a simple way. Of course, I won’t buy things unless I really intend to purchase them, but with sore feet, online shopping has always been a good investment for me. And besides, it’s the least I can do for a Project that’s dedicated to helping me and my boys walk free of pain someday.