Have you ever heard of a Virginia Auction? Neither has Google, but our school holds one every year.
Virginia Auction [ver-jin-yuh] [awk-shuhn] noun 1. An event held each year to raise money for the scholarship fund at Family Academy of Christian Education. Families buy tickets to bid on new and gently used donated items. Whoever has their name drawn out of the bag next to the item, takes it home. Tickets are .25 each or 5/$1.00 with a maximum of $50 per family. Items are donated by families and local businesses.
My favorite was a $30 gift card for Texas Roadhouse. Sadly, I didn’t win.
What I did do was donate several items for the auction. I grabbed a box and raided the school stuff first. Electronic educational toys, a desk lamp that no one was using, stickers, children’s books, and a cute backpack all went in the box. Then I scavenged through the kitchen and decided to donate our kettle corn popper.We hardly ever use it and we prefer our air popper, but it made one of the other families very happy. Let’s see…there were a few items I had bought on clearance for a quarter each, 3 cd players, a Spiderman table-cloth, 3 board games, and some other miscellaneous things. I haven’t heard how much was raised, but I know my family only brought home 4 items, and the item I won, I gave to a friend. Yes, my de-cluttering is still going strong. Now if only I could figure out what Virginia has to do with the auction.
Are you still de-cluttering too?
I was thinking about your final question there, and I decided that today, I’m actually re-cluttering. Then it grew into a post all on its own: http://donhillson.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/october-re-cluttering-challenge/
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GREAT post, Don. 🙂
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Good for you. Yup, I’m still decluttering. Got the car in the garage yesterday. First time in years. I was a happy camper.
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Way to go, L! 🙂 Feels good, huh?
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I still have my garage but sold my car the other day. I’m still de-cluttering tho.
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