Bullet points for Monday
- Thank you so much for all your well wishes for us and our family/friends down in Houston. Everyone came through, and everyone has some kind of damage, but nothing that can't be fixed, so that's pretty great. (Up here we just got 10+ hours of hard rain, but no massive flooding, which was fortunate.) The house next door to my husband's childhood ( Read more... )
the very best places for donating things to your raffle are the small, entrepreneur type places. I run a silent auction for my PTA and I get all my donations from those places, mostly restaurants who give a gift certificate that I auction off. I made like $1300 last year -- of course, it's also thanks to the donors who come to the silent auction.
another place to look is used book stores, comic book stores, to see if they have overstock you can package.... and crafters/artists who are sick of lugging that one thing around....
and of course, the quality white elephants and unused specialty appliances of friends -- yogurt maker anyone?
and of course YOU could auction your movie poster !
re more established businesses, like Starbucks, you generally have to see what their manager is like, but a lot of places support solicitations if they are done through the national offices -- you can generally email them. Then that takes probably 6 weeks to process. Does the 3 Day provide a list of corporate sponsors who might be willing to support you?
It's so great that you are doing it -- congratulations!
and so glad to hear you and your loved ones are all ok
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Thank you very much. Some local restaurants have dinner packages for me, a local wine shop has a few bottles for the cause, and the Mr. is going to have a poker night with a 25 dollar buy in, the person with the most chips at the end gets a little something, too. Oh! And I have a night at a W for a couple, too.
Thank you SO MUCH! Wonderful suggestions that really helped!
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