Trading Commences with "One Fine Zipper"
We are finally ready to commence the trading challenge. I am offering one clothes zipper. Why start with this? Connor is a little young at 3 but I am told that heart kids are proud of their “zipper” … the scar on their chest resulting from open heart surgery.
So I am opening with one fine zipper as a tribute to all the babies, toddlers, children and adults that own their own “zipper”. Thus commences the Zipper trade up challenge. What are you willing to trade for a zipper? It doesn’t need to be theme relevant but could be innovative or just a plain item which will provide enough demand to trade again. The only rule is that it must be of greater value so I can achieve a great end item to sell or auction (determined by item at end).
On an earlier post I admitted I am not creative. I need assistance folks .. not that I have a huge following at this early stage. I am seeking suggestions for the name of the challenge based around the zip, heart, charity theme … tricky I know. A couple that came to mind to me, and I did say I am not creative, are:
“The Proud Zipper”
“Zip it Up”
“Zip It for Charity”
“Our Fine Zipper”
The resultant funds from the final trade will be donated to a charity assisting families of heart kids that are required to travel to
6 comments:
How about using "zip" to imply speed... considering that most heart babies need a rather quick fix, at least to start out with.
And for all that, I have no actual ideas. Sorry.
*Love* the idea of a zipper - completely agree, and can say that Bethy used to be very proud of her zippers - she had an extra one after tummy surgery!
Maybe something like "The Special Zipper"? It's quite late, so I'm not thinking on all (any) cylinders ;)
And being that I am tired... I should have put this all in one post, but meh...
Anyways, I am going to link you under the special section I created for MoneyForOldRope, so there will be two of you there on each side of the world. I'll also send this to a few heart lists to drum up some hits :)
Good Luck
-Dan
GREAT idea - I love it! And, if I may, I'd like to be the first to offer a trade for that one "fine zipper." (My 6 year old son has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, and had 3 open heart surgeries before the age of two - so we know those zippers well!)
I'd like to offer a trade of a "Heart Hugs" Teddy Bear from our nonprofit organization, California Heart Connection. It's a cute, cuddly bear complete with padded paws. You can view a picture of one here:
www.caheartconnection.org
click on Donations, then "Teddy Bear Project"
Let me know if we have a trade!
Debbie
The first thing I thought of when I saw that you had a zipper for trade is how my daughter, Jessica, was always so proud of her "zipper". We have video of her when she was 3 yrs old proudly showing off her "zipper". We started calling it a zipper since we knew she would need many heart surgeries, they should just install a zipper so they would have easy access. lol. Fortunately as Jess has gotten older, she has stopped showing off her zippers. hehe...
hi sitting here reading this brought up a lot of painfull memorys and made me cry you see i have a 6 year old son who also has congenital heart disease his first operation he had he was not even 24 hours old and he still has to have another operation i think what you are doing is gr8 and i hope you reach your goal good luck with it all.
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