I hope that you get at least 10 cents worth of knowledge, entertainment, and motivation each day from SurvivalBlog. It has been posted with fresh content daily, since 2005. In all these years I’ve only missed posting on a few days — most notably in the week after my first wife passed away.
I do my best to mention the Ten Cent Challenge editorially only once each year. Unlike PBS, we don’t run agonizingly endless pledge drives. But we do depend on voluntary subscriptions to pay the blog’s bills. These expenses include: paying our staff writers, the local ISP monthly bill, our web hosting server, domain registrations, news service subscriptions, payments for stock photos, phone bills, liability insurance, maintaining our remote backup server, post office box rental, and providing a small portion of the writing contest prizes. With inflation, nearly all of our costs are escalating. But we still ask for only 10 cents per day. ($36.50, per year.)
The PayPal Exodus
Back in October, there was an understandable mass exodus from PayPal. That cost us, because of subscription cancellations. About 30% of our subscriptions vanished, soon after PayPal’s censorious intentions were revealed publicly. I do not blame anyone for quitting PayPal. Severing ties with PayPal was fully justifiable. But losing those subscriptions hurt our cash flow quite badly. And, as I’m sure you recall, two years ago, we quit the Amazon.com Associates program. Previously, the Amazon commissions had covered most of our expenses.
I greatly appreciate the 2% of readers who do choose to subscribe. Subscriptions are entirely voluntary. If you’ve never subscribed before, then please become a subscriber. And if you are one of the many folks that quit PayPal and thus had your SurvivalBlog subscription lapse, then please “re-up”, through the following methods:
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Note: If you are on a tight budget, then please support our publication only with prayer.
And I have one request that might seem a bit odd: Please remember SurvivalBlog in your will. The next time that you update your will, please consider designating a modest dollar figure or a small percentage of your estate for your will’s executor to send to SurvivalBlog. I’m confident that those small bequests will keep the blog going, multi-generationally. You won’t live forever, and I won’t live forever. But I’m confident that one of my sons or a trusted friend will step up and continue to post SurvivalBlog uninterruptedly, with the same style, substance, and unswerving editorial focus.
May God grant that SurvivalBlog continues to be a beacon of truth!
With Many Thanks, and Wishing You God’s Blessings,
– Jim Rawles
P.S.: I’m in the process of setting up a merchant account so that folks will be able to pay for blog subscriptions and USB archive sticks via credit card, through the Elk Creek Company website. I‘ll post an announcement in the blog, once we get all of the kinks worked out. (Presently, credit card billings are not being completed — we just getting error messages.)