Gumball/Jawbreaker Machine Earnings

Update (July 2024): Water Gardens theater was recently purchased by Megaplex theaters. We are currently trying to reach someone to learn what will become of Old Yeller. Hopefully we will be able to keep the machine at the theater. Old Yeller has raised over $4,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) over the years. Yay! We are so grateful to Mike Daniels and all of the people at Water Gardens who have so graciously let us keep the machine there for so long. Go enjoy a movie this month and get a jawbreaker! 😀

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Our best fundraiser to date is our gumball/jawbreaker machine, Old Yeller.  Currently it resides at Water Gardens Theater in Pleasant Grove, Utah (across from Macey's).  Here is a picture of it in it's current home and a list of it's earnings.  

This list will be updated at the beginning of each month when we collect the jawbreaker money.  Big THANKS again to WATER GARDENS THEATER in PG!!  A great place to watch movies!  $3 movie ticket and concessions for $1, $2 and $3.  Seriously.  Order tickets online without an online service fee.  Reserve seating.  LOVE IT!  And, as an added bonus, you can buy a yummy jawbreaker for a mere 25 cents and help people afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis :-)  Yahoo!

Money Earned

Placed at the Pleasant Grove Water Gardens Theater just before Thanksgiving 2008

Dec. 3, 2008 $65.31

Jan. 6, 2009 $80.28

Feb. 3, 2009 $43.50

Mar. 6, 2009 $10.25

April 3, 2009 $22.00

May 19, 2009 $29.50

Sep. 4, 2009 $90.00 

Dec. 10, 2009 $27.27

Jan. 9, 2010 $22.56

Mar. 16, 2010 $32.00

Placed at Monkey Island in Lehi second week in Dec. 2010

Dec. 30, 2010  $54.80

Mar. 15, 2011 $84.11

June 2011 $91.76

July 16, 2011   $24.30

Sept. 15, 2011 $58.77

Placed at Water Gardens theater Nov. 23, 2011
November 2011: (-$46.98)

Jan. 12, 2012 $135.21

Jan. 2012: (-$93.96)

Feb. 2012: $69.03

March 2012: $58.97

April 2012: $86.25

June 21, 2012: $161.07

July 20, 2012: $64.55

August 10, 2012: $100.78

Sept. 21, 2012: $93.50

Nov. 20, 2012: $143.87

Nov. 20, 2012: (-$93.96)

Jan. 20, 2013: $171.52
March 2013: $151.33
May 2013: $101.08
July 2013: $126.43
July 2013: (-$176.85)
Sept. 2013: $35.45
Nov. 2013: $90.11
Dec. 2013: $40.81
March 2014: $111.71
July 2014: $121.00
August 2014: $67.59 and $91.76
December 2014: $91
January 2015: $50.69
November 2015: $190
December 2015: $34
January 2016: $46.69
March 2016: $50.00
June 2016: $55.00
October 2016: $151.00
May 2017: $35.00
July 2017: $36.00
June 2018: $65.00
September 2018: $52.41
January 2019: $50
June 2019: $60
January 2020: $80
March 2020: $25

June 2021: $90

June 2023: $306 (it's been a while :-)

Note: In November 2011 Old Yeller became a jawbreaker machine.  When it was a gumball machine the gumballs were donated.  Now we buy our own jawbreakers.  It costs us $93.96 for 1700 jawbreakers.  At 25 cents per jawbreaker we will still be able to raise $331.04 for every 1700 jawbreakers sold.  To keep things completely transparent we will mark, on the list above, the money spent on jawbreakers in red. Update: As you can see we haven't marked anything red for over a decade. We ended up just donating the jawbreakers so every penny the machine earns goes to fighting MS.