Auction: Getting Donations - Tips From Penny

Last year SPA member Penny Lambright offered some great suggestions for Parents who are soliciting donations for the Auction. Check it out!

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I keep a folder in my car so I am always ready to ask for a donation. I have a theme - double pocketed folder containing plastic-sheet protected articles about Sturgis & the Sturgis SPA letter, the carbon donation slips (with the all important tax ID #) and a clip board.

WHILE YOU ARE GETTING _______ YOU CAN ASK FOR A CERTIFICATE FOR A ______
haircut
manicure
oil change
movie ticket & snack
massage
gas card
round of golf
knife sharpening
Adult Ed class
health club
teeth whitening
music lessons
restaurant
Dept store-Macy's,Border's
Best Buy, Strawberries, etc
Facial
housecleaning
day of fishing on your boat
cooked meal

SERVICES- perhaps for Advisory Groups or families/students with no extra time or cash
babysitting
shoveling(next year)
car wash
dog walking
mending - pants/skirt
yard work
dinner-prepared in your home or
a teacher's home


THEME GIFT BASKET or BOX

Baking- mixing bowl,rolling pin,cookie cutters
Green - energy efficient light bulbs, natural cleaner
Hair products with hair dryer
Golf - tees, gloves, balls
baseball of football tickets with ball or hat

BEAUTIFUL THINGS

paintings
pottery
jewelry
scarves

If you have found an interesting item in your town or any ideas for baskets, please let us know.

We are so proud of our kids and so proud of Sturgis, lets all help make this the best Auction ever !

Sturgis doesn't ask much of us as families, if we each get a minimum of three donations and invite at least three friends, we just might reach our goal.

Do you remember selling over priced cookies, cookie dough, magazines, oranges, candy and many more highly inflated items for your child's school or club frequently throughout the year at past schools your child has attended ? We are very lucky that Sturgis does not burden us with that. We do ask that you support this wonderful school once a year.

We recommend that you get the donations sooner rather than later. Cape businesses are always very slow in January and February.

If you need any suggestions or help, please contact your team leader or anyone on the Auction committee. We are all more than happy to help!