Saturday, January 16, 2010

Care package details

Here is the info that will be posted in the Salem bulletin,

Interested in helping out the troops? A care package party for Mark Pound and his fellow service men and women will be held in the library of Salem on Saturday, Jan 23rd from 11am to 2pm. We will be assembling care packages with items brought in as well as taking money donations that will go towards the cost of mailing the packages. In October, the cost of shipping 50 packages was close to $600, and we expect to package even more this time! For a full packing list and details, go to www.marksupdatesbyheather.blogspot.com . Please RSVP to this event by Jan 21st to Heather at hj.pound@yahoo.com as the Pound family will be providing pizza for those who come to help. If you would like to help with postage send checks to:
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Packing list....



  • granola bars
  • trail mix
  • Cheeze-it's
  • Gardetto's
  • Pop-Tarts
  • gum
  • nuts
  • individual drink powders that go into a water bottle (such as crystal lite)
  • magazines (Mark says they like anything about fitness, guns, trucks, 'popular science,' 'Men's Health,' news magazines, etc...)
  • soduku books- or something similar
  • deodorant
  • toothpaste
  • baby wipes/ Wet Ones (Mark says these get used a lot)
  • q-tips
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Tylenol/Advil
  • Body wash/ shampoo (remind me to pack this separately, Mark said some people's boxes food tasted like soap- woops!)
  • Mouthwash
  • disposable razors
  • Chips (like Pringles)
  • Ziplock bags
  • Nail clippers
  • Candy (anything good, that won't melt)
  • Popcorn
  • non- aerosol shaving cream
  • eye drops
  • cereal
  • tea/hot cocoa packets
  • hard candy


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Details posted from earlier...

The second care package party will be on January 23rd from 11am-2pm.

It will be at Salem Covenant Church which is at:

(same church Mark and I were married at if you were at the wedding)

We are having it in the library of the church, which is upstairs, so you'll see us when you walk in the front door. I plan on ordering some pizza around noon for those who are there, and have some beverages as well.

From the last care package party we learned a couple of things, which I will elaborate for those who weren't able to come...
--When people came in, we had boxes set up with different categories (personal hygiene, reading materials, other, games/entertainment, food, things specifically for Mark, female things, etc), and everyone dropped their things off when they walked in. I am anticipating having the same type of thing, as it worked out really well.
--We had something similar to an assembly line for the filling and people doing different tasks such as a box maker/taper, people to fill out customs forms (which really helped me out!)
--We left all of the boxes open so that I could add more at to the boxes if we had a left over items at the end.
(It might seem like I'm organized, but I'm not that much...everything just seemed to workout.)

Also, any amount of $ that was donated, really helped us out with the mailing of the packages (it cost over $500 to mail them all--but was well worth the cause!) so if you want to pitch in, but can't make it or don't have time to get anything this is a good way to help out too (any leftover money will go towards buying other donations for soldiers)!


Feel free to bring friends, or spread the word of our efforts. The soldiers are very thankful for everything we are doing for them, and I am thankful for everyone who has and can make this happen! Just a note, they have 189 (or so) soldiers in their unit, so I don't think making too many boxes will be an issue.

See you Saturday, and don't forget to shoot me an e-mail!


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