"I went from working at a television station with a car and a place of my own to working at a pizza joint with no vehicle living w/my aunt " (Image by Axelv.)

T Shirts-all proceeds to fund college – $15 (NYC)

I created a Cafepress site in the hopes of raising enough money to go to college. Long story short-over two years ago I broke up w/my girlfriend and have regretted it ever since. I went from working at a television station with a car and a place of my own to working at a pizza joint with no vehicle living w/my aunt and then my sister. My ex, a brilliant musician who has been hurt her whole life, is still someone I care very deeply for. When we were together I always told her I wanted her to get out of the small pond she is in and let her talent shine. She has so much to offer and so much to experience. Years ago, she told me (in a fit of anger I will admit) that if I ever got the money to pay for her college tuition/living expenses, she’d go with me and get a degree in Music Business. I really feel it would help her take off with her career-find value to her life. I created the cafepress site because, well, because people don’t want to just give a stranger money because he claims he’ll use it for college–with this site, you buy T shirts, and I get 10% of the sale. I’m going to use it all to fund the degree. The idea is to come to her front door, holding a boquet of flowers and a money order for the amount of tuition that I raised and just say something beyond romantic, something about coming with the idiot who held on for these many years and let’s start a new life far away and look what I’ve done because what I believe you can do. At the very least, if she says no, I’ll use it to attend college myself. Obviously the break up still haunts me and going to college myself would at least give me a new start-after the depression and the lost jobs I just don’t want to feel like a loser anymore. Please buy some shirts and please tell ALL your friends to do the same–myspace, facebook, linked in, the guy on the street with hotdogs, any way possible to get everyone possible to buy a shirt! Thank You.