On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:49:12 GMT, Puester >
wrote:

>I had the same experience with our high school PTO. The teachers
>sponsor a huge craft sale in early Nov. with the booth rental $$$
>going to a scholarship fund for kids who want to major in education
>in college. The PTO has a bake sale table and donates the proceeds
>to the scholarship fund. Too many times I have made or seen cakes
>that cost ~$8 or more to make being sold for $2.50. I'd rather donate
>the cost of the ingredients.

My church runs an "Alternative Christmas Market" every November, with
charities such as Habitat for Humanity, Heifers, Int'l., a children's
cancer charity, a local women's shelter, another couple of
international crafts charities and our United Methodists Women's bake
sale. The bake sale creamed every other booth. Methodists seem to
travel on their stomachs...

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines