Laurie I am sorry you are having so much trouble. I think it is just this stupid economy. I know that 5 bucks isn't much but maybe people think they are being too cheap if they only send 5 or something who knows. Or it could always be that they think someone else will do it. You know how that goes. I know for us Shane got a really puny check last week and then was laid off on Friday and is off AGAIN today. I think he knew this last week but just didn't want to tell me cuz he knows how much I freak out. But he finally admitted that he may be off all week. We just never get ahead it seems. Every time we START to this crap happens. It is SO frustrating! He didn't even open a new claim for UE on Friday either because he thought since he got that form from EDD that he couldn't and I was like uh NO! They told us they thought they overpaid him back in Jan of 2010 but we had the stubs and I was like NO! He claimed he got paid 300 for one week and the shop said they paid him 1000! Well I got out the stubs and he had worked 1 day the week before and 1.5 days the week they are talking about and then even the following week he only worked 20 hours. His biggest gross out of the 3 weeks was only 600! NOT 1000 even ONE of those weeks much less the one they were talking about. So hopefully it gets straightened out but it really torques me because out of the last 3 years he has only claimed a total of about 4 to 6 weeks of UE the ENTIRE 3 years because he basically has to be off an entire week to do it. If he works even 2 days in a week he doesn't qualify. If he works one he gets like 100 bucks! It's REALLY stupid but then they also did it to so they would have him not working and then work him like a day here and a day there and then he wouldn't qualify so basically he was pretty much out of work for almost 3 months at the beginning of this year but we could never file because we had a 2 week waiting period then it never worked out. So now THIS is just really irritating. I mean he is the main bread winner and when he is bringing home NO money or maybe 100 bucks that is NOT going to pay our bills! SO annoying. Sometimes I wish his shop would just lay him off all together so he could just collect it weekly and be done with it. This 1 week here and 1 week there and having to open a new claim every time really screws us!
Anyway sorry to get off on a tanget LOL. I know you are really excited and I am really sorry that you didn't get more donations. I think it is really awesome what you are doing and like you said every dollar counts so I am sure they will be happy to get whatever you HAVE collected!!
I am off to work today but I hope you and everyone else on here has a great day!!
Mike passed the Food Handler's 2 test that he needed to officially be named the new Meat Manager at the Corvallis Safeway! 
Tomorrow he opens (go figure.....lol) & then Friday he works 10-7.....then he'll be all done at that store.
I'm sure you're taking the brunt of his frustration in lack of employment, but you both need to remember it's not either of your faults......you need to pull together to get thru the tough times. Unfortunately, it's too easy to take those frustrations out on each other. I hope things can smooth out for all your sakes!!
