Wanted - padlockable cash box, delivered to pennsic
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:40 am
Guys,
I am interested in borrowing (prefered) or purchasing (less preferred) a padlockable box with a slot in the top. It will be used for cash donations to the Fight For Kids Challenge at Pennsic War this summer.
The idea behind fight for kids is that I want to fight one thousand fights, and have various sponsors donate one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents, one Dollar or one Euro to an orphanage in the Czech republic. It's set up so that donors can donate in either Dollars or Euros (which also uses "cents").
Ideally, I wont ever have to even touch the money. The sponsors can just send a cheque to the bank the week after war. I don't want to handle the money. There are too many ways that this whole thing can go horribly wrong if I have to deal with the cash.
But I am positive that somebody will want to donate cash. I don't want to turn away any donation, and thus, I need a cash box, preferrably one that can be locked with a padlock, and the key possibly held by a person of well known Good Character. I would prefer not to have the key.
I will be flying in from Germany for this, so I can't bring a cashbox with me, and I will probably have to abandon it after war.
Ideally, the box should be a welded rectangular box, with a hinged lid, and a padlock clasp. The lid should have a slot in it so folks can put coins or bills into it. To give the thing a more medieval appearance, it would be really, really nice if the box had a cover that arched over the slot in such a way that allowed the donor to put a donation into the slot, but preventing somebody from (for instance) fishing down into the box with a coat hanger.
The cover looks like a pot lid handle made out of sheetmetal.
The cashbox should either be too heavy to pick up and easily run with, or large enough to put several bricks into.
please give me your thoughts.
freiman the minstrel
I am interested in borrowing (prefered) or purchasing (less preferred) a padlockable box with a slot in the top. It will be used for cash donations to the Fight For Kids Challenge at Pennsic War this summer.
The idea behind fight for kids is that I want to fight one thousand fights, and have various sponsors donate one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents, one Dollar or one Euro to an orphanage in the Czech republic. It's set up so that donors can donate in either Dollars or Euros (which also uses "cents").
Ideally, I wont ever have to even touch the money. The sponsors can just send a cheque to the bank the week after war. I don't want to handle the money. There are too many ways that this whole thing can go horribly wrong if I have to deal with the cash.
But I am positive that somebody will want to donate cash. I don't want to turn away any donation, and thus, I need a cash box, preferrably one that can be locked with a padlock, and the key possibly held by a person of well known Good Character. I would prefer not to have the key.
I will be flying in from Germany for this, so I can't bring a cashbox with me, and I will probably have to abandon it after war.
Ideally, the box should be a welded rectangular box, with a hinged lid, and a padlock clasp. The lid should have a slot in it so folks can put coins or bills into it. To give the thing a more medieval appearance, it would be really, really nice if the box had a cover that arched over the slot in such a way that allowed the donor to put a donation into the slot, but preventing somebody from (for instance) fishing down into the box with a coat hanger.
The cover looks like a pot lid handle made out of sheetmetal.
The cashbox should either be too heavy to pick up and easily run with, or large enough to put several bricks into.
please give me your thoughts.
freiman the minstrel