I don't know how we got roped into helping with this event, but some things we just do for our kids, is the best I can say. The event was billed as a garage sale, it was held on the Crockett campus, and a couple of other types of vendors were invited to attend and sell their wares. The idea was that any and all of the Crockett athlete families and Tex-Anns (the drill team) would donate gently used clothes and stuff and the proceeds from the sales would go to the booster club. The idea was good, the weather was good, the location was probably good, in that there was plenty of space and parking. The overall result was tepid, at best. There was hardly any flow of people, and those that did go by were not dropping large amounts of cash.
They started with the idea of trying to say this pile was $2, this one $3, but ultimately, when Wife was left to manage the tables with clothes, she just told the customers $1 a shirt. It kind of insulted me, some of those shirts I put out there cost as much as $60-$80, but I have outgrown them and some were worn only once, but still, it didn't matter. According to Wife, one customer swung by and bought about $70 worth of clothes, he is headed to Mexico next week, and was rounding up clothes to take to family. Other than that, I saw a bunch of people buy one or two shirts, or a DVD, give their $1 dollar and leave. I can't say this was worth our time.
I will say that the booster club is being very aggressive on the fund raising. Other than this event, next week, there is supposed to be a car show, in the same location, the athletes just did another round of selling Bundt cakes, and they are open to other ideas, Wife was suggesting things they have done in her school districts, like the BBQ cook-offs. A couple weeks ago, a bunch of the student athletes volunteered at a pro level golf game that came to town. All these things are supposed to raise money for the booster club which supports the various team functions.
The biggest endeavor right now is that the booster club somehow volunteered itself to buying a black pant for the away games. They had just bought new uniforms last year, and there was a black uniform, but it went to the JV team. Someone decided the varsity team should have black pants, maybe to match with the gold jerseys, I guess the white jersey would also look good with black pants, but we will see. I believe the cost for the booster club will be around $2000.
We are just contributing as much as we can because all this is for Mijo and his friends. I wish there were bigger wallets to contribute internally. I feel the richer schools have the benefit of parents with deep pockets just throwing money at their kid's interests, but here at Crockett, there just don't seem to be many of those. One doctor friend of the wrestling coach offered to buy the wrestling team new singlets (uniforms), and talking to the coach, he was excited to get some new ones for next year in some aggressive bold colors, now that the program is revived and there seem to be more kids than ever interested in the sport.
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