PENMART01 wrote in message >...
>(Derek Lyons) writes:
>>
>>Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>I used to bake stuff for the bake sale
>>>at my son's school. Then I found out that they were selling the stuff for
>>less than
>>>it cost me to make them. Nuts to that. All I was doing was providing
someone
>>with
>>>cheap baked goods and the school was getting the money.
>>
>>Um. That's the *point* of it.
>
>'Zactly! The cake is a *donation*, to the school, not a cake for a contest
at
>the county fair. The trick is to bake as cheaply as possible while making
your
>school bake sale cake look as handsome as possible. The folks buying at
school
>bake sales realize they're making a donation too, so they don't mind
spending
>say $5 on a cake for which you donated $2 worth of ingredients, plus your
time
>and effort ('zactly what occurs at the corner bake shop, btw). If you're
going
>to spend $10 on ingredients for a cake that will sell for $5 then the best
>thing is to buy your own cake.... you've donated $5 plus your time and
effort
>and you're not out any part of the money you spent on your cake... you get
to
>eat your cake and have it too.

um, no. you will then have donated $5 on top of the money spent for
ingredients.

--
saerah

TANSTAAFL

"The night is full of holes
There's bullets ripping sky
Of ink, with gold
They twinkle as the boys
Play rock and roll
They know that they can't dance
At least they know"
-U2