#witch raffle

[lailoken]

Raffle: Rare Chthonic Devotional Beads (CLOSED)

This raffle is for a handmade set of unique Devotional Beads made with rare chthonic materials.

It was constructed using beads carved from 19th century tombstone marble, jet beads from a 1920's mourning necklace, counter-beads made from human corpse teeth, a cave-found hagstone focal pendant, and a Victorian coffin nail end-piece. The resultant implement was then consecrated within the bounds of a Graveyard.

While the retail price for this item is $275, I am taking the risk of setting up this raffle, in hopes that it might aid me in raising enough money to help us afford palliative care for our terminally ill dogs—particularly when it comes to funding an operation needed by the sicker of the two.

Tickets are $5 a piece, and each assigned a number. To purchase a ticket, simply use the link below and follow the provided instructions. You will be asked to make an account and fill in your payment details, which will allow the raffle to email you your entry information, as well as automatically notifying the winner when the time comes. Participants are more than welcome to deactivate their accounts following the raffle. A random number generator will be used after one week's time in order to determine which ticket number is the winner.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to anyone and everyone who takes part! Please feel free to let me know if you come up against any issues! And as an aside—even if you don't end up entering the raffle, I'm sure that sharing it would still be helpful. :~)

Raffle Link: ☆

[lailoken]

So, it looks like my dog who was most recently diagnosed with cancer is in need of an operation. It's not a particularly major surgery, and it won't necessarily do much to increase the time he has left, but it will greatly reduce his pain as he winds down these last chapters of his life. Essentially, because he has bone tumor growing in his sinuses, a fairly major blockage of infectious gunk has built up there, which is putting pressure on his eyeball and preventing him from beathing easily. The procedure would only entail doing a scope and flush to help drain his sinuses and offer him some much-deserved relief, but it will still cost over $2,000. The positive side (so to speak,) is that he should only need the procedure once because he won't live long enough for it to grow back down the line. The negative side is that we have already been dipping into our life savings to pay for medical visits and medications, and an operation of this sort would be overwhelming financially.

While thinking of ways I might be able to help bring in more money, the idea of a raffle occured to me. Specifically, I am considering putting the rare Chthonic Garland I'm currently selling for $275 up for raffle. I was thinking that, since this piece is highly unique and fairly expensive, people could enter the raffle for $5 a person (assigning a number to each person as they sign up) and then I could use a random number generator to choose the winner. Whoever won would end up with a $275 set of devotional beads made with Victorian Tombstone Marble, 1920s Mourning Jet beads, Human Corpse Teeth, Victorian Coffin Nail, and Cave Hagstone, for only $5.

Of course, this would only be of use if enough people think they would actually consider entering the raffle. After all, if only 20 people entered, I would be selling this $275 piece for $100, which wouldn't help me fund this surgery, and would actually lose me money. As such, I figured I would make another poll to help me gauge the viability of this idea.

Would you enter a raffle for $5 for a chance to win a rare and expensive set of devotional beads?

Yes!

No!

Voting ended onMay 17, 2023