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Basket Raffle at Sarges Meet and Greet for PIR 04/11
Basket Donation Raffle for Sarges Meet & Greet @ the Sundance Saloon Thursday Evening before PIR. Donation for Sarge and his wife for all that they do for all the Navy Families @ PIR. 100% proceeds goes to them to help offset the cost of this dinner meet & greet.
Any basket, bag, box, or container with a creative mix of items that can be raffled. :-)
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Permalink Reply by ellen0502 on
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You might think about keeping the cost of the basket somewhere in the 20-25 dollar range, then sell raffle tickets for all the baskets, and do a drawing instead of biding. This will make all the baskets "sell".
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Permalink Reply by StacyLHR (14/136) on
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LOVE that idea Ellen - Thanks :)
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Permalink Reply by JRH (ship 3 Div 137) on
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I can bring something from Georgia.
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Permalink Reply by Vrybzymom (S14,D136) on
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I am in
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Permalink Reply by Kitchen Kimmi (09/139) on
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I will bring some San Francisco treasure and give a cash donation. I'm Sooo excited to meet everyone. Even more excited to see my sailor.
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Got excited about this today. :) 1) My scentsy lady is going to donate a US Navy warmer. 2) found a cute bowl with anchors, think it would make good popcorn bowl. Thinking about doing Movie Night bag. :)
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Just got of the phone with Sarge. He said that doing the Basket Raffle at his Meet and Greet would be a lot of fun plus helpful to him and his wife for the expenses :)
Here is the plan: Anyone who wants to, can put together a "Basket" (can be a bag, basket, box, whatever) for the raffle.
We will set up our baskets with an index card next to it with the contents. Also next to it will be a cup.
We will sell tickets: ($1 per ticket, 6 tickets for $5, 12 for $10, 25 for $20, etc)
If you want to win an item, you place however many tickets (to better your chances) you want into the cup next to the item. Then after supper, the winning ticket drawn from the cup for each item. That way you are in the drawing for the basket you want.
If you want to do a basket, some ideas are: something from your state, your favorite team, favorite hobby, etc... If you don't want to do a basket, a gift card could be raffled as well.
Getting excited about this!. :) 1) My scentsy lady is going to donate a US Navy warmer. 2) found a cute bowl with anchors, think it would make good popcorn bowl. Thinking about doing Movie Night basket. :)
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Sarge also wanted me to tell you all that there will be a Dance Contest at the Meet and Greet. Each division needs to have 3 representive couple to dance to the Village People's "In the Navy" and the winners will win customized T-shirt. He said that it is a LOT of fun and there is probably a video on FB from last week's meeting.
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@ Christopher'sMom and Everyone - I apologize for the muddled explanation :)
The idea is to get as many raffable items as possible, such as a gift bag of items or a gift card, or simply an item that people might want to win (such as the Navy Scentsy warmer or I saw a cute Anchor wall art from Hobby Lobby) You mentioned putting together a bag from Boston and we also have ones from Georgia, San Francisco, and Texas being done. I also heard from another Mom not on this site that is going to do a Date Night basket. ANY idea for a raffle item is welcome. We don't want people to have to spend too much though so "baskets" ranging from $25 - $35 is the suggested range.
I wondered about bringing on the plane and one idea that was told to me, was to contact the hotel and see if they would agree to let me ship a box to them the week of PIR. That way we wouldn't have to worry about extra baggage.
Did this explanation help at all? :D
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I also wanted to let ya'll know that I went ahead and started planning this because I'm Empty Nesting :( and it gives me something to do. I like planning things like this but I am totally inept at conversation and speaking so help will definitely be needed at the Meet and Greet! :) Sarge said that there will be raffle setup, the actual raffle, ticket sales, money collection, and money count that he would like for the N4M Moms to help with. :)
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I found lots of Raffle "basket" ideas on Pinterest :)
Here is link to one of the Boards: "Basket Ideas"
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