Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ongoing: These are things you can do or sell for months and just keep it going.

Flamingo Flocking: Get a bunch of pink flamingos you know those hideous things they put on their lawn in Florida. This one works especially well for a church group or some such where you can pass out fliers explaining the game but not necessary. Find someone willing to be the first victim. You put the flamingos on their lawn with a note saying that they have been flocked. The flock will not leave their yard until they make a donation to the AWBC and call this number to arrange for the flock to move on. Now, for an additional $10 they get to pick the next flockee. For $10 they can buy insurance to make sure they are never flocked again. Now the best thing to do is deliver them after dark so no one knows their being flocked. until it’s all set up. Just be careful of sprinkler lines and such. This can go on for months. Just keep careful track of who’s paid insurance so you don’t accidentally do them again.

Candy Bars:
Buy candy bars from BJ’s or Sam’s Club they work out to about .50 each. Sell them for $1 each. I bought a flip top box at the craft store that is used for scrap booking supplies and decorated it with pink ribbon paper. Sell them at work, at your kids games, we live a tight knit neighborhood and my kids went door to door and sold them to the neighbors. You can do this periodically for months.

Recycle: If your State has can deposit and recycling, put a clean empty garbage can in the break room and ask everyone to put their empties in there. Here in NY we pay a .05 bottle deposit for every beer/soda bottle we buy. When you return the bottle to the recycling you get your nickel back. It’s worth the effort. Try the kids school, maybe they’ll let you put one in the office or teacher’s lounge.

Donation cans:
The donation cans you put in town can be used for months also. Move them periodically to different businesses. That way you get new people that see them and may drop their change in.

Lapel Pins:
There are several web sites that sell different pink ribbon pins. I use pinkwings.com. They have 170 different styles. If you buy them in bulk, over 25 I believe they cost you $2. You can sell them for $5-10 each.

T-Shirts: there are places you can either buy shirts or have them made. I like zazzle.com because I can design my own. These are great for selling to the men. Put a pink ribbon on it and you they can get away with wearing risqué sayings that would otherwise get them slapped.

Some of my favorites are “Don’t let cancer steal second base”, “I saved a life and groped my wife”, also can be “Save a life and grope your wife” “I’m a boob man” and the outline of two hands with the words, “free screening” “Tough enough to wear pink” "Big or small let’s save them all”

But remember, most of the men in my life are construction workers. We can get away with things that a guy in an office wouldn’t be able to. And some women who wouldn’t appreciate the humor.

Buttons: you can also get buttons with different saying on them from zazzle.

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