Tabs for Taylor 2015

And then came more......

And then some more......

2015's tab total was 1,323 pounds!

Thank you all for your love and help and support! We're looking forward to smashing that weight this coming year! Bring on the tabs!!!

June/July tab total

We turned in another 470 pounds of Tabs For Taylor at Shriners Hospital in Springfield!!!

This brings out tab total to 11,681,500 tabs since June 2009!

Thank you to everyone for your help, support and love!!!!

2013 Paperwork

Bring on the tabs

Most of the people in my town, as well as the thousands of people who drive by my house everyday, have now seen the Tabs For Taylor wishing wells in my front yard. During my daughter Ashtyn's birthday party a lady showed up to ask if I would like her and her husbands tab collection. I said "yes, please," of course, and when I went to pick them up today, I was glad I brought my car. They had a garbage bag, half filled with tabs. They had been saving them for a few years and didn't know where to bring them. They were delighted to see my wells and know that the tabs would help kids at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Another lady stopped yesterday and told me she also had a whole bunch of tabs saved up that she wanted to go to Shriners but didn't really have a way of getting them there besides mailing (which is super expensive, by the way) so she was excited to now have a way to get them to Springfield. And this morning I had another person stop by and tell me she knew some people who drank A LOT of soda and she would ask them to save their tabs for our tab collection. And my neighbor's son is planning to start collecting them at school again for Tabs for Taylor.


This is what has been collected in the last 5 weeks. It was taking about 3 months to fill one of these up and now...well.....5 weeks!!!! I'm psyched! I'm also kind of bumming....I've been going to my local 'dump', the Walpole Recycling Center,(which is where around 5 gallons of these came from) on Saturday mornings to help count and bag, audit bags and of course, un-tab cans during the process, and my days left there are numbered by our relocating to Newport, VT in June. I'm hoping to find someone as tab-collecting-crazy as me (or at least willing) to carry on my efforts here in Walpole.

I received a thank you letter from LOSNA on Friday with their updated information:



The totals for the year were pretty impressive: 36,076 pounds of tabs collected in 2009-March 2010.....that's almost 9,000 pounds more than last year. That's awesome! I'm really glad to be able to be part of it and I'm so thankful and grateful for everyone who is helping this project. I can't thank everyone enough.

Wishing Wells

The 'little' buckets are getting filled so quickly we needed something bigger. The US Post Office drop boxes we wanted start at around $500 a piece so that wasn't going to happen. And making our own fakie post office drop box wasn't working out so well so....... wishing wells were the next bright idea..... and here are the first 3. They still need a few finishing touches but they're finally built.




And, our tab total has hit 75 gallons of tabs! Way to go everyone!!!

Tabs For Taylor update

My Mom and Lisa brought 3-4 gallons of tabs to Shriners last week when we had Taylor's appointment. We had the car pretty much filled so we couldn't fit the tote. As you can (almost) see, I got a bigger tote.... and its just about filled. There is about 90 thousand tabs in there. I have more to pick up from the ladies of Old #4 and Lisa also has more for me when we catch up again. I picked up some more litter buckets from my recycling center and they are putting out one of my Tabs For Taylor buckets and letting me come in and un-tab their cans!!! Awesome! I found out last week that our plans to get an old USPS mail drop box are not going to happen..... they cost $500! So, hopefully, my ever-so-crafty father is trying to make one for us to put at the Charlestown Fire Department for tabs. I'm working on Thank You cards right now for our "tabbies" and hopefully those will be done soon. And I should be getting an updated tab packet soon to share as well. As always, Thank you everyone for helping!