For our youth fundraiser each youth needed to offer a service to be auctioned off in a silent auction. A silent auction is a table of things/services with a paper attached. Each bidder is given a number to bid with, they write their bids with their number. There may be a paper for raking leaves for 2 hours, mow a lawn, rolls delivered to your home 4 weeks in a row etc. I wanted the raking so I put my number down 102, and my bid price. If someone wanted that for more money they put their number down to up the bid. By the end of the night most papers have several bids on, at a certain time they close the bids and announce the winners. After you win something you contact the service person and arrange a time for them to do the service.
Janell needed to offer a service but doesn't like babysitting. I talked her into making whole wheat bread and bringing it there that evening. It was the only service not on a piece of paper.
She made bread for the first time by herself. I was in the room supervising. She made 3 loaves of bread. We put pretty cloth bows on the loaves and added small jams to the packages. The bread sold for $30,$20 and $20. The services averaged 20 dollars and hers fetched $70! We were excited... and she is done!!!! love Janae
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