Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids is celebrating its final week of growing! Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of something big and hairy. Visit our Gallery of Growers, and select the Mustache you’d like to sponsor by making an online donation to Off The Street Club today. Better yet, join us at our finale:

Monday, December 17, 2007, 7:30-11pm
Subterranean, 2011 North Ave.
Featuring performances by Bird Ate My Donut and Animate Objects
$5 - all profits go to Off The Street Club!
Doors at 7:30 for the public, Growers arrive at 7 for sign-in.

The dash for the best ’stache and the most cash concludes at this must-see PARADE OF MUSTACHES. Yes, our fierce Growers are going to grin and bear it (bare it?) as they go head-to-head vying for your undying love, your wallet and the title of Sweetest ‘Stache. Post-mustache-pageant, the mustachioed musicians of Bird Ate My Donut will take the stage, followed by headliners Animate Objects! Hosted by Aspiring World Beard & Moustache Championship Contestant Jeremy Scheuch.

In the meantime, check out our week three mustaches:

It’s the Dash for the Cash!

This is our final week to raise funds for Off The Street Club. We really hope to meet our $15,00 fund-raising goal, so please take a moment to contribute today. Help our Growers hit their fund-raising targets and you’ve helped us seal our victory over the Houston Chapter of Mustaches for Kids all while making a much appreciated donation to Off The Street Club, Chicago’s oldest boys and girls club.

A Motivational Moment

We don’t really know what to make of this apparent “stache-like bash”, but it certainly celebrates the mustache. This video also celebrates that while we’ve been seriously raising funds for our charity, we’ve also been having fun! And, it’s what you’ll find if you search youtube for “mustaches+final+countdown”…

Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids is celebrating its second week of growing in most staching fashion. Visit our Gallery of Growers, and select the Mustache you’d like to sponsor. If you don’t have a favorite Grower, come out and find one. Our next Weekly Checkpoint will be at 7pm on Monday, December 10 at Rockit Bar & Grill, 22 W Hubbard St., and will be hosted by Aspiring World Beard & Moustache Championship Contestant Jeremy Scheuch.

An extra special thanks to T’s on Clark for hosting Checkpoint One. Through their generous donation of a percentage of the evening’s sales, we raised hundred of dollars for Off The Street Club! Eamon’s world famous Mustache Ride Shots brought in a few hundred more.

And now introducing the two week old mustache…

Our Sponsors, Our Friends

Mike Jozwik (boss of M4K Chicago Grower Phil Fox) donated $100 to Off The Street Club during our second week of growing. We can see why Mike is so fond of our fund-raising endeavor. And, perhaps fellow Grower Steven Pate aka 588 2300 Empire Strikes Back hopes he can borrow Mike’s outfit for ‘Stache Bash 2007?

A Motivational Moment

Chicago Grower Nick Brandfon hasn’t been lacking for friends since his stache came in. But when a delightful first snow hit the windy city during Week 2, he couldn’t resist the chance to make one more special friend. Meet Nick & Melty Mustache - BFF 4Kids.

Our newest Grower is so cool…and we know he’d never help out Houston.

7pm, Monday, December 3, 2007
T’s, 5025 N. Clark St.
The most generous T’s will give 10% of our food and beverage sales back to Mustaches for Kids!

Hope to see you and a few hundred of your closest friends.

Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids celebrated its first week of hair-raising fund-raising on the evening of Monday, November 26th. Check out our increasingly hirsute Gallery of Growers, and don’t delay in selecting the Mustache you’d like to sponsor. If you don’t have a favorite Grower, come out and find one. Our next Mustache Checkpoint will be at 7pm, Monday, December 3, 2007 at T’s, 5025 N. Clark St. This will be a great opportunity to befriend Growers, and the most generous T’s will give 10% of our food and beverage sales back to Mustaches for Kids! Partake in a “mustache ride” shot and purchase a commemorative Polaroid of the experience (proceeds benefit Off The Street Club).

And now introducing the one week old mustache…

Our Sponsors, Our Friends

Our Growers had an especially thankful Thanksgiving as the past week offered them their first chance to collect donations for Off The Street Club. Key contributors this week included a $250 donation in sponsorship of Sir William Throckmorton’s budding moustache (this generous lady wishes to remain anonymous). Tom Lubin helped Stache Gordon in his dash for the cash with a donation of $151.01. Mike Maher (Orlando, FL) and the Le-Bruno Family (Boston, MA) tied in a Thanksgiving bid for Dandy Lion Fluff’s undying devotion with donations of $50 each. Kathy Maxwell contributed $40 to our resident Captain of Industry. And, Betsy Carnahan, eased Growzer the Growzarian $25 closer to his goal. In addition to sponsoring Mustaches, Betsy enjoys dancing with friends regularly at “Arturo’s” mexican restaurant and road trips down private back-roads in the Appalachian mountains.

A Motivational Moment

To quote, Timothy, founder of Chicago’s Chapter of Mustaches for Kids:

A man’s relationship with his seven-day-old mustache can be delicate. A man’s relationship with a desire to eliminate his seven-day-old mustache simply should not be.

The one week juncture can inflict all manners of unspeakable self-doubt. Growers have been known to lock themselves inside for days. We hope this short inspirational clip will inspire our dear Growers to face the day with pride, this experience is not just for kids, it’s for sheer glory! Love thy mustache…

For instance, Grower Jon Dold has a lot to be thankful for with genes like this:

As does Grower Joe B., whose dad Thaddeus put the class in mustache before Baby Joe B. was even born:

Meanwhile, Grower Joe Ciotti’s fine-looking father (left) and Uncle Randy (right) demonstrate that the mustache was just dandy not too long ago. Surely Mustaches for Kids will soon convince society that mustaches are not only charitable, they’re once again fashionable.

We hope you’ll remember what’s really important this Growing Season - mustaches! Specifically, mustaches grown for the children of Chicago’s Off The Street Club. Fathers everywhere should grow mustaches and raise kids that grow up to be fine young men that grow mustaches for kids.

Root one (or more) of these gentlemen on, and sponsor a mustache today. While a PayPal donation may prove to be most convenient, we encourage sponsors to contact their favorite Growers and pledge their support. If you don’t have a favorite Grower, come out and find one. Please consider contributing; five dollars, twelve dollars, fifty dollars…every cent goes to Off The Street Club.

Yes, that’s right, we made the 10 o’clock news:

The evening was filled with many smooth-faced and charitable gents as we welcomed quite a few new Growers to the scene - the exact number of which shall remain secret since we must practice strategery and shenanigans against our cunning foes: the Houston Chapter of Mustaches for Kids. Thinking that fierce rivalry might drive the inaugural Houston Chapter into a most successful first year, we most graciously decided to help them out by offering a challenge. They’ve accepted, offered us back a few slurs, and now we must band together to Mess With Texas.

Windy City Citizens: won’t you help these upstanding gentlemen (who are bravely risking personal ridicule and financial ruin to raise money for the children of Off The Street Club this holiday season) protect our city’s honor?

Do your part and become a Grower today! It’s never too late to Register (hesitation might hinder your chance of winning a prize at ‘Stache Bash and puts a little pressure on your fund-raising effort). Tell your friends about us, tell the world about us. And of course, consider sponsoring a Mustache.

We’re holding out for a few more Grow Models!

To that end, we need everyone and anyone interested in this hirsute pursuit to join in the fun. Want to grow a ‘Stache for Cash for Kids? Please register, or email us directly: m4kchicago@gmail.com. We also encourage the input/participation of philanthropists, Mustache enthusiasts, community leaders, and anyone interested in Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids community. Find out what all the fuzz is about and stay tuned to our Events page for information on the upcoming Growing Season…

Beer Foam Retention Competition.

Chicago’s Next Top Mustache.

Just three of the many manly segments comprising tonight’s official Mustache Pageantry. That’s right, Mustaches for Kids is kicking off the fourth (and final) week of it’s inaugural growing season…tonight, at SmartBar - 9p.

Join us, as nearly forty blokes gather to celebrate the mustachioed life, crown Chicago’s Sweetest Stache, and recognise each other’s fundraising prowess. With two Growers already sporting $1,000 mustaches, stop by to find out how close this lot gets to raising their goal of $10,000 for Off the Street Club.

Though there’s no cover, please consider making a donation.(Even better if that comes in the form of a check for “Off the Street Club.”) 

And, while the drinks ain’t free, access to local, for-the-children mustaches is nearly unlimited.

DJ sets by Bald Eagle and Spencer Lokken of Orchard Lounge.