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Originally Posted by eremite06
Just curious, how many T-shirts, blankets and umbrellas do you have now from OneBlood?
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I retire these t-shirts after two years or so. Maybe six blankets, two umbrellas, eight coolers, four long sleeve shirts, etc.
Do not tell the IRS.
And now they are giving $60 gift cards - probably for Amazon.com-- if you donate six times over three month periods for platelets. That's 24 donations a year for platelets which is the limit per year for these.
I have received maybe 50 t-shirts over the years from various blood donation groups. I started in Belmont, CA in 1985 or so trying to impress a blonde woman named Sandy who started dating a lawyer instead. She worked with me at Information Access Company. She indexed PR News Wire I believe for various library products. I indexed newspapers but also did sports and business magazines. Then started abstracting local business journals for Area Business Databank. I have been donating blood on or off for 30 years or more.
I did talk to a nice other woman employee at IAC a bit whom I would run into at the American Law Library Association convention in San Francisco CA in the Summer of 1992. She was in the marketing IAC department and looked just like a woman I went to law school with who is now probably the top immigration lawyer on the West Coast. One of the law librarians I had also graduated from Law School with in 1989 actually confused the two woman going up to the IAC marketer asking her what she was doing here? It was rather amusing except that both women looked quite a lot like a portrait I had done in 1975 which the Mitchell family had wanted as it looked just like their 2-24-1976 slain daughter Michelle. Mrs. Barbara Mitchell had seen the drawing in an Art Show I had at Earl Wooster High School the Spring of 1976. I gave this drawing to the Mitchell family at their home while thanking them for giving me the Michelle Mitchell Memorial Scholarship that Spring of 1976.
I did donate blood while in the Twin Cities but not too often. Only really started doing it seriously after we moved to the Villages in 2005 from Palm Harbor, FL.