Service Auction

Last night my niece and I participated in a service/goods auction at my church. Instead of using real money, we used funny money. Your spending amount was based on a survey you took that questions your emotional, spiritual, physical and general well being. I was able to get 265 funny money dollars and my niece had near the same amount. We each donated items. My niece made a cookie bouquet in a Halloween theme. There were ghost and pumpkin shaped cookies decorated expertly by herself. I donated 2 loafs of my delicious honey wheat bread, a child/infant bracelet and headband. It filled us both with delight to see as people were bidding on our items.

Although there were lots of items I wanted to bid on, I wanted to bid on my own items. Smelling that bread cook earlier in the day, making the headbands and bracelets, sewing the dish towels to go around the bread, all that hard work made me want to keep my items. But no worries, I did not bid on my own items. I had my niece do that for me. I hope that the people who won my items will enjoy them, as I enjoyed making them. By the way, give them back! Just kidding.

Some of the other items offered were, homemade fudge & cookies, Avon Halloween decoration (which I wanted so badly, but ran out of funny money dollars), haircut gift certificate (which my niece won), swing dancing lessons, Babysitting for one night (I won one of these), desserts each Monday night for a month, child's quiet play kit, baskets of Arbonne lotions and lip gloss (I won one of these) and a Clinique make-up kit. There were many other items available, but I can't remember them at this time. There were lots of very nice items offered and It was such fun to participate. This is certainly one of the most enjoyable Enrichment Night activities I've attended.