{"id":3424,"date":"2011-03-11T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:48:39","slug":"vendor-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/vendor-day-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Day 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was the annual homeschool Vendor Day yesterday. We sold things! We bought things! Everything had to be under a dollar.<\/p>\n

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This year, we changed our marketing strategy. We abandoned the stationary booth idea. The boys were mobile, moving from person to person. Mark had the cute factor going for him. He was our most successful salesman. He sold fruit snacks. Timothy sold candy.<\/p>\n

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A group of kids put on a carnival with a cakewalk, games, face painting and PRIZES!<\/p>\n

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Snow cones!<\/p>\n

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Jewelry!…and everything was priced under a dollar! The jewelry booth girls probably didn’t make a profit, but they were popular with their nice jewelry, organic lollipops, free balloons, sand art, prickly pear jelly and a raffle for books by their mother who is an author. They became friends with everyone.<\/p>\n

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This booth provided my lunch. Yum.<\/p>\n

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One problem with Vendor Day is there are too many salespeople and not enough customers. Just when things began to look bleak, the retired bicyclist club arrived! They engulfed our snow cones, bought all of our Popsicles (it was 85 degrees) and spread their money around in heroic ways.<\/p>\n

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Aloe vera plants, anyone?<\/p>\n

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This teen was selling things he had made out of DUCT TAPE. I liked the water lily, myself. It was only 75 cents.<\/p>\n

There were many booths I didn’t photograph. There were homemade cards, water bottle holders, sodas, about 5 cupcake booths, refrigerator magnets made with walnuts and googly eyes (I bought two), and sachets. There were about 30-40 cute kids there.<\/p>\n

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Daniel’s artistic sugar cookies were a hit. He made about $6. Later that evening, we had 3 kids show up on our doorstep to buy more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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