Treasure Chest

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The fall festival was today. They put down that the minimum bid on the treasure chest had to be $15. When I went in to check on it and bid myself, only one person had bid on it. She put $48.50 as her bid. I found this strange for a number of reasons. One, $48.50 is quite high for a first bid when she could have put $15. It's also kind of a random price...why add the 50 cents. She also put a really weird phone number. I figured she must have been from out of town. Anyways, I was happy that someone really must have wanted it to put that high of a bid but also a little sad because there was no way I was going to pay $50 for it when I had already put in $20 to make it. That would have made it a $70 treasure chest. I figured I'd just make another one. So I told my friend Kathi that if she fell through that I would love to buy it for $20. She sent me a text saying that the person had in fact fallen through and that I could have it. When I called her she told me that the person bidding on it was actually a child going around putting random bids on stuff. She apparently put $60 on an item that wasn't worth that at all. I don't know how old she was or if they gave her a talkin' to but I was happy to get the treasure chest back. Next year we'll just have to figure out a way to keep the kids out of the silent auction area.

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Tomorrow is Zachary's school's Fall Festival. It's something they do every year to raise money. They will have different booths with different games (our class is in charge of the Lollipop Pull) as well as a Spacewalk and a Sweet Shop (I'm making fudge for it). Each class is responsible for donating a item for the silent auction. The children have to have some kind of participation in it. I am one of Zachary's home room moms so Jodi (the other one) and I had to come up with an idea. Since we really weren't sure of anything real crafty that we could do we decided to ask for a $5 donation from each child and would put together a gift basket. We got a whopping total of $20. There are 21 kids in his class and one parent gave us $10. So that means only two other parents gave. We sent home two notes asking (almost begging) for parents to help us out. I had come up with the idea of making a treasure chest and filling it with different things. At first we were going to find wooden coins and have each child color one to put inside. But then I found this little wooden chest and thought it would be cute if they put their hand prints on there. So I painted it brown and took it into the class and had each child paint their hand and put it on the chest. Then I filled it with various things that Jodi and I found. I think it turned out darling and hope I am able to win it. If I don't have the winning bid I'll just make Zachary another one.