Derek Lyons wrote:

> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
> >I used to bake stuff for the bake sale
> >at my son's school. Then I found out that the 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.

Sure, the point was for the school to get to money. They could have made a lot more if
they had charged what the stuff was worth, or at least as much as it cost to make.

Dave Smith > wrote:
>Derek Lyons wrote:
>
>> Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>> >I used to bake stuff for the bake sale
>> >at my son's school. Then I found out that the 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.
>
>Sure, the point was for the school to get to money. They could have made a lot more if
>they had charged what the stuff was worth, or at least as much as it cost to make.
>

More likely they'd have made less, or at best about the same... And
had a whole of unsold baked goods at the end of the day. These aren't
gourmet shops.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

"Derek Lyons" wrote:
> More likely they'd have made less, or at best about the same... And
> had a whole of unsold baked goods at the end of the day. These aren't
> gourmet shops.

Precisely. These are fundraisers, not businesses.

Over the last several months, I've participated in many bake sales to raise
money for causes ranging from Alzheimer's Disease to Christmas gifts for
nursing home residents to relief for a family whose son had just been
killed. I baked AND I bought. I baked with knowledge that my effort was a
means to a charitable end, and not toward breaking even. And when I bought,
I knew that the items were packaged short and undersold to encourage more
buying. Most providers and purchasers at bake sales know these things and
realize that sometimes there is simply no return on an investment.

Personally, there is nothing in it for me other than knowing that I've done
what I can do.

There's a peculiar mentality driving society these days... defining
everything monetarily...

<it sounds like a monstrous real-life C. Montgomery Burns, sometimes>