TOPIC: Fred's Mary's Hands Annual TD Charity Auction - Jan 8th-Jan 22nd 2025

Hello all! It's time for our 2025 auction benefitting Mary's Hands!

I am making this an annual auction and adjusting the timing to better match when we make commitments to buy starts and seeds as well as soil amendments and organic fertilizers. We'll put in those orders by the end of January.

Our new auction starts at noon MST January 8th and runs to noon mst on January 22nd. One hit wonders will be the themed monikers and will be given to all bidders. I'm sure some will spur debate as to if they are really one hit wonders or not - it will be a fun aside as part the auction.

Please send bids via PM

I'll try to update frequently - at minimum daily then more frequently as we get near auction completion.

Ebay style bidding. Bidding up to $10 is in 25 cent increments, $1 increments from $10-$100, then $5 increments above $100. Shipping is $9.

First, an overview of what you’ll be helping…

Mary's Hands is a 501c3 Non-profit founded by my wife Isabelle and myself. It was named after my mother who tirelessly volunteered and helped others her whole life. We are fortunate enough to have land we can farm and built a program to grow food for who need it the most locally. The critical part of what we do is in delivering the food to affordable housing communities directly and helping them set up mercado-style markets where residents can come by and pick up whatever produce they need in a friendly and supportive environment. We grow what these communities are telling us they can't afford but would love to have. It's humbling to see people who can't afford high quality organic produce get restaurant-grade produce rather than cast-offs or seconds. You can find more information about our work at www.maryshands.org .

Your generosity helped us grow and distribute more than $20,000 worth of produce in 2024. This year we hope to increase that by at least 50%. Although the yields were similar to 2023, moving to much more frequent deliveries helped us increase how much was able to be used by the communities. Effectively, this meant about 25% more food being eaten.

Bidding will be ebay style with the winning bids paying through our donation portal for Mary's Hands. All winning bids are tax deductible as a donation to our 501C(3) non profit Mary's Hands!

Thank you in advance!
-Fred

Partial* Auction Listings:
*I'll be adding items up to auction start and some extras as we progress!

Item name/Current Winning Bidder/High Bid
Spotlight items:
Surtr's Girdle of Giant Strength (+7 to Str)

True Grind "This shirt cost my party their lives..." shirt - 1 more shirt was allowed to be made just for this auction - courtesy of Picc! (this will be produced at whatever size the winner indicates.)

Hard to Find or Unusual Items:
Relic:
Ring of Heroism +1 level

Rare Hard to FindToken:
Charm of Enlightenment (+8 wis)

Arcanum items:
Arcanum Shirt (+2 to str, dex, con, and focus) - part of the upcoming Arcanum set

Relics:
+3 Savage Sword Very high dmg wheel - crits on 19-20 - part of the legendary Kilgore Sword Transmute
Greater Gloves of the Gladiator +6 to all dmg w/ any two handed weapon (even ranged!) - part of the legendary Gregor's Gloves transmute
Greater Bead of Whispers +3 to saves - part of the legendary Boaz transmute
Ioun Stone Elfstone Shard +10 to max hp

URs:
TEs
Bead of Bounty +2 treasure draws - can be used in COA transmute
Bead of Greed +2 treasure draws

Other URs
Boots of Brawling +2 to hit w/ melee +1 to saves
Grunnel's Funnel - Free action use healing potion on self or others
Ioun Stone Kyanite Cube +2 cold dmg with ranged attacks -2 dmg from cold
Ioun Stone Mystic Orb +2 to saves (+3 with skull of cavadar)
Ioun Stone Flourite Sphere +2 to healing spells and healing received gets +2 hp

Sets/Groups:
Safehold 5 with 8 hireling stewarts
Complete set of all 2023 and 2024 monster bits (excluding skull of batterak) - needed for 2026 Greater Glory transmute!
Complete set of all 2024 VTD completion tokens (Bead of the Third Eye, Bracelets of Psychic Power, Charm of Psychic Power, Crown of Psychic Power, Ioun Stone Scapolite Prism, Pendant of Psychic Power, Ring of Psychic Power) - good tokens but, importantly, all the completion tokens needed for the ring of psychic mastery
Ancients Set - Charm, Armor, and Staff - great items and +1 level for the set
Greaves of Absorption, Deflection, and Stalwart - great items and part of the 2026 Greaves transmute
1 of each - Ring of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th circle -catch up on your ticket to Ring Con! All the rings (to date) needed for the transmute in 2026 - it's your ticket to entry at Ring Con and will have powers of its own!

Other items:

Stretch goals of $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 will unlock more great items!

BUMP! Our auction starts Noon mst tomorrow!

The initial items have been listed. I may add a few more during the auction so keep checking in!

Fred

*bump* most items have no bids yet - lots of great deals available!

New bids are starting to come in - we're up to just over $900 raised and are hoping for $3K+. Most URs are still only 25 cents with others having no bid at all yet. Jump in while you can!

We're up to $1100 in bids so far!

Fantastic deals still out there.
Golden ticket high bid is only $505
8 UR's with no bids yet
A Relic with no bids
Enhanced token set including enchanter's whetstone with no bid
CURSED mirror of pride and fork of gluttony with no bid

A Relic with a high bid of $0.25
11 URs with high bids of $0.25

2023 VTD completion set high bid of $0.25
2023 Monster bit set high bid of $0.25

Let's get some more bids in there!

Fred

More new bids in - we just crossed $1,200 in bids so far!

Still amazing deals to be found:
3 URs with no bids yet
2 Relics at only 25 cents
13 URs at only 25 cents
2023 Monster bit set at only 25 cents
2023 VTD completion set only 25 cents

GT current bid is only $505
2024 URs that are common PYP picks are almost all going for less then $30!

Jump in - get great items and help a good cause!

Fred

We're up to $1460 in bids! All but 2 items have a bid now.

Great deals across the board. We have 12 URs and a package of Enhanced tokens (including enchanter's whetstone) all at 25 cents! We're below $30 on almost all URs, hirelings, monster bit set, and woodie 2005 UR necklace of fireballs.

The Golden Ticket is only at $505, The Spirit Pet Ducky is only $81, and 4 relics going for well under $100 (3 under $30!).

Take advantage of great deals and helping a good cause! Keep Bidding!

We're now over $1,750! Great start to the auction!

Still quite a few items well below 1/2 of market pricing:
Golden Ticket at $505
2005 UR Necklace of Fireballs at $51
Orion's Belt at $26
15 URs at less than $20!
Enhanced set with items valued at between $150 and $200 (total) is only at $25!

Bid early and bid often for great tokens and a great cause! (As an added perk, you get to learn about weird superheroes or supervillians with each new one added with new bidders!)

We're up to $2,350 in bids! Amazing progress!

Still great deals available:
Hireling Stewarts at only $21
Ancients set of 3 2024 UR ancient set tokens going for only $76
Set of 2023 monster bits going for $21
VTD completion set PLUS Grunnel's Hexed Fruitcake only $61
20 UR's under $30
All 5 relics under $110 (Boots of Protection for only $25)
Necklace of Fireballs only $51
Our spotlight item for this auction, the Golden Ticket, is still below market value - currently at $945.

Lots of great deals available while helping a great cause! Keep up the bids!

Fred

We added Dishman and Batmanuel to our lineup of high bidders!

We're now over $2,300! I am in awe of the TD community's generosity. Just wow everyone!

Still great deals to be found and you are helping a great cause. Less than a week left!