Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.

Turns out the biggest donation of toys to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital each year doesn’t come from the drop box in the lobby of your dentist’s office. It doesn’t come from the toy drive at your veterinarian, your kid’s school, or a local broadcast news station. Nope—it comes from strippers.

Portland strippers have donated $183,000 worth of toys over the past 14 years to Doernbecher as the result of an annual event called Tatas for Toys. This year’s show will be held Dec. 16 at a new venue, the Alberta Rose Theatre.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    and they also make a metric shit ton of money.

    When I lived in northern Ontario I was friends with a stripper who would come into town a couple months a year. We both just liked to hang out at the ONLY bar in town. she would work at the only club in town that also doubled as a strip club two times a week. She told me she only worked 3 months a year. Basically what’d she do is a sort of “tour” of northern Canadian mill/mining towns where the workers would live for a few months out of the year and then go back to where ever they actually live. She’d hit up Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec’s mining towns and just make absolute bank. She made way more than enough to only have to work like 3 months, a couple nights a week, and then have the rest of the year off. She’d travel or just do nothing.