Do you consider this showey?

[MadamePresident]

Maybe a little, but its also fun to know you were a part of something bigger than yourself. I'm assuming these things are recognition for charitable gifts.

Now if you point out the brick with your name to every friend every time you walk down that street, that would be annoying.

[Deleted]

LOL.

[Deleted]

I have always said that if I made a donation big enough to warrant anything to be named after me, I do not want anything named after me.

I don't think showy is the word really, but it seems a bit narcissistic maybe? I don't need future generations to know that I paid $50 to put a brick on a path.

That said, I will monogram pretty much anything so I do like seeing names on things.

[formerlyak]

I'm a fundraiser, so I like when people want to give a gift in order to have their name on things

I bought a tile on a wall at the school I raise money for.

So I guess, no, I don't think it is showy.

[fuddyduddy]

Yes.

It's nice that this form of showiness benefits charities/organizations, though.

[ondaflipside]

Sept 17, 2012 17:36:08 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

Sept 17, 2012 17:34:00 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

if you're giving just for the brick, then of course it's showy.

showey to a point where you wouldn't want to do this so future generations could see your name stamped in meaningful places?

I think it's fine, but there's no guarantee that it won't be replaced/ignored down the road, unless it's highly substantial, like a University wing. My alma mater received a $$M donation, and my college of business was renamed because of it. Even that, is not guaranteed.

Our local dog park has sponsored benches. I certainly don't call them Mr. Moneybucks' bench. It's a bench.

[Deleted]

In light of other comments, I'd also say that it makes me sad and annoyed when charities give me things to entice me to donate. I want them to use the money on the cause, not on ugly address labels.

[Brie]

Sept 17, 2012 17:37:59 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Sept 17, 2012 17:36:08 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

showey to a point where you wouldn't want to do this so future generations could see your name stamped in meaningful places?

I find you so puzzling.

Team Jenny. This is such a weird post.

[GailGoldie]

considering i never stand around reading bricks or anything of the sort - i don't see how it's so awesome other than your family seeing it... and even then, so they can say what? "My family gave money here!" ... big deal.

i don't see any excitement about it. If you want to donate to something- that's great... if you get a brick, that's cool... but i would never donate places just so my name would be somewhere.

[Deleted]

champagna said what I was thinking in a very nice manner.

[GailGoldie]

cool to go to a church someone in my family got married in? yes.... cool to take a picture with a brick while there? not cool.

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Sept 17, 2012 17:59:03 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

well I don't want it to make ME happy. I thought it might be cool for future generations. But I see the general consensus is that is won't be. Which means I should save the $$ and stop getting bricks.

No, you should continue getting bricks.

And you should write obscure clues about their locations and accompany those clues with an unmarked map, so future generations can go on a hunt for all of your bricks, National Treasure-style.

[iheartbanjos]

Sept 17, 2012 17:59:03 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

Sept 17, 2012 17:56:11 GMT -5 @champagna said:

I'm sorry, this is making me lol. I don't think it would be that cool, honestly. I hope my great grandkids find better things to do than take a photo with my brick.

But, if this is what makes you happy, then go for it!

well I don't want it to make ME happy. I thought it might be cool for future generations. But I see the general consensus is that is won't be. Which means I should save the $$ and stop getting bricks.

I would go with not cool.

We were going to get DD a brick where we first lived in Seattle so that she could come back and see it when she was older (they were redoing a park and asked for contributions). I kind of regret (eta: NOT) doing it, because I thought it would be cool to see her name. She probably wouldn't think it was that cool to see her parents names.

[cahabalily]

You are so easily swayed.

[abeaverhausen]

Sept 17, 2012 18:03:04 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Sept 17, 2012 17:59:03 GMT -5 @jimbooo said:

well I don't want it to make ME happy. I thought it might be cool for future generations. But I see the general consensus is that is won't be. Which means I should save the $$ and stop getting bricks.

No, you should continue getting bricks.

And you should write obscure clues about their locations and accompany those clues with an unmarked map, so future generations can go on a hunt for all of your bricks, National Treasure-style.

Definitely do this!

And I think it's showy if you tell everyone you know, post it on Facebook, message boards, etc.

[thegooser]

In all seriousness, my grandmother donated a large sum to her church and had something named after her. After she passed, I went to the church. It was nice to see her name, to know that she was there, that she stood there and looked at that same place, and that that place meant something to her.

Random bricks probably won't mean much to future generations. Focus your efforts on things that are meaningful to you (like a bench in your favorite park), and they will become meaningful to your future generations.

[Deleted]

Well, that did not go as expected.

[Deleted]

My grandfather made us all go to Centennial Olympic Park to look for the family brick that he had purchased. My god that was a boring waste of a half an hour.

[insominac]

I'm crying.
A brick.

[mrsw101109]

My grandmother donated a large enough sum of money (I do not know the amount) to have her name somewhere in her church. They have these walls that represent the 12 stations of the cross and each of them have a persons name.

It is not my church. I was not raised Catholic, but I have attended mass at that church many times and I do like seeing her name there, especially now that she is deceased.

I can't guarantee your grandchildren or great grandchildren will care. I have never made a special trip to the church just to see the name, but if I am there I sometimes look.

[liveintheville]

Oh I do want to have the ability to name something. But I sure as hell wouldn't name it after my family. No in honor of crap. I want full naming privileges over whatever it is.

P.S. So far I've only been able to name servers

[makemineadouble]

I always like the memorial benches you see in parks or on trails. I just assume that the deceased really liked that park or trail, and that the family pitched in with a nice memorial.

[Deleted]

Sept 17, 2012 18:40:55 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Oh I do want to have the ability to name something. But I sure as hell wouldn't name it after my family. No in honor of crap. I want full naming privileges over whatever it is.

P.S. So far I've only been able to name servers

I got to give a Cabbage Patch Kid a middle name once! It was awesome. But I didn't pick my own name. In small part because it was a boy.

[liveintheville]

Sept 17, 2012 18:41:28 GMT -5 makemineadouble said:

I always like the memorial benches you see in parks or on trails. I just assume that the deceased really liked that park or trail, and that the family pitched in with a nice memorial.

Here's a bench anecdote. My husband's mom has a memorial bench they got in her name on the boardwalk of their town. Well, the town moved the bench. They went looking for it one day and it's nowhere to be seen. After contacting the town they were told it had been relocated. I had no idea they could do that.

[ondaflipside]

Sept 17, 2012 18:36:52 GMT -5 mrsw101109 said:

My grandmother donated a large enough sum of money (I do not know the amount) to have her name somewhere in her church. They have these walls that represent the 12 stations of the cross and each of them have a persons name.
It is not my church. I was not raised Catholic, but I have attended mass at that church many times and I do like seeing her name there, especially now that she is deceased.

I can't guarantee your grandchildren or great grandchildren will care. I have never made a special trip to the church just to see the name, but if I am there I sometimes look.

So each of the station/wall has a donor's name in it?

[insominac]

Is the brick at least on the wall? Please don't tell me it's a floor brick.

[otowngirl]

Since the very purpose seems to be showing said bricks to future generations, then yes, I vote showy.

[Deleted]

On one hand I think its cool, and on the other I think its weird.

Then again, we have a new hospital in our town with entire wings named after people who donated like $5M +. If I had enough $$ I could donate that, I'd totally get a wing. LOL.

[hannamaren]

How mch is the brick? Just curious.
I wanted to buy a seat in the new pharmacy building so my name would be on a chair, but they were. $250. Too much for my charitable side.

[Susie]

I vote not worth doing unless your last name is Falik and you're naming a men's room, in which case, carry on.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/12/falik-bathroom-named-HLS/