Due to the substantial cost of running this site, I need help (or a winning lottery ticket) in order to keep the site running. If you like this site, you can help to keep it going. There are a few ways that you can help, outlined below.

• Donate — Donations of any size are most helpful and greatly appreciated. You can sign up to make an automatic monthly donation via credit card or electronic check, or you can make a one-time donation in a variety of ways.

• BuffyGuide Email — Get a BuffyGuide email address! Just $10 per year, and your payment will offset our server costs.

• Shop Online — BuffyGuide.com is affiliated with a number of online merchants. When you click one of our links to these stores and make a purchase, this site earns a commission (generally 5-15% of the purchase price). (You can also visit the Merchandise section of the site to browse for Buffy items from affiliated stores.)This costs you nothing extra! The commissions come out of the retailer's profit as part of their affiliate programs; your prices are unaffected.

• Buy BuffyGuide.com Merchandise — Show your support for BuffyGuide.com by buying items sporting BuffyGuide.com logos! Get t-shirts, sweatshirts, boxers, mugs, mousepads, and more, in a variety of cool designs. Proceeds from merchandise sales go toward site costs.

• Let the advertisements load — Though they don't earn buckets of money, some of the ads on this site (most of the banners at the top of each page, and the pop-up ads) do earn some revenue per impression — in other words, they earn money just by you letting them load. I know it's tempting to leave certain pages before they load, and I know that some of you use software to "turn them off." But it is helpful if you let them load, and it costs you nothing more than a couple of seconds. Clicking on them is also helpful, so once in a while, try actually looking at them — if you see something interesting, click (it'll open in a new window).

Why Help and Support Are Needed

Even though the running costs have slowly decreased since Buffy ended, it does still cost money to pay hosting bills and other related bills to keep the site open. Unfortunately, just paying all of my regular "real life" bills is hard enough, so I need all the help I can get.

I'll continue do whatever I can to keep this site going, as I have done for years. I don't want to close it. But I do need help in order to make continuing the site a possibility. Thus, if you can help in any way — be it through a one-time donation, a monthly donation, shopping online via links from this site to our affiliated stores, or signing up for offers that earn a commission for this site — it would be greatly appreciated.