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Gifts For Nursing Home Residents
QUESTION: Over the last several months, I've participated in many bake sales to raise
money for causes ranging from Alzheimer's Disease to Christmas gifts for
nursing home residents to relief for a family whose son had just been
killed. I baked AND I bought. I baked with knowledge that my effort was a
means to a charitable end, and not toward breaking even. And when I bought,
I knew that the items were packaged short and undersold to encourage more
buying. Most providers and purchasers at bake sales know these things and
realize that sometimes there is simply no return on an investment.
Personally, there is nothing in it for me other than knowing that I've done
what I can do.
There's a peculiar mentality driving society these days... defining
everything monetarily...
ANSWER: That is the way I think it should be. At bake sale that I was referring to they
would sell the whole cake for $2-3 and cookies were selling for $1 per dozen. It
was a great bargain for the people who went to get cheap baked goods. They would
have made more money if they just got the bakers to donate the money they would
have spent on ingredients and forget about the sale.
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