Sheila
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As arranged, I arrived at 6PM for a 6:30 PM show. The host was no where near ready. She was still cleaning the house, had the kids running through the living room and her hubby piled up on the couch watching TV. She did get her hubby off the couch to help her finish cleaning and put several baskets of laundry upstairs. I gathered & moved all the children's toys from the center of the floor to the edge of the room.
She had told me the day before that she was expecting 10-12 guests. I spoke to her 5 hours before the show & she said the RSVP list had dropped and would be about 7-10 people. When I arrived she said several more had bailed on her at the last minute.
6:30 comes and no guests have arrived. It was also at that time, that the host put her hubby to work in the kitchen so she could go shower.
At 6:35, the first guest arrived ... who happens to be next week's host.
At 6:45, the host announced that she had another guest who would be there at 7. The kids are still running through the house & trying to play with all the PC tools. So while trying to keep an eye on my stuff, I did get some one-on-one time with next week's host to plan the menu.
7:00 arrives and two more guests show up saying that another one is right behind them.
7:05 we finally have a 4th guest & start the show. The guests announce that their two 2nd grade girls want to "help" with the interactive cooking show, which of course brought the host's rambunctious boys out of their room to help too.
It took 1 hour and 20 min's to do what should have taken 30 min's. The guests sat on the couch & visited while I entertained the kids. They didn't seem to be interested in the presentation or trying out any of the tools. They were perfectly content in letting me babysit while they visited.
Three of the four ordered. Total sales between the three guests: $85.50 :grumpy:
I'm crossing my fingers that she's able to collect some outside orders to at least make a show. I'd hate to think that I did all that work and got paid less than $20 to babysit.
Thank goodness I had a total of 9 shows this month. I've closed 2, have 6 open & one more this weekend. The fact that I've already taken $2399.57 in commissionable sales and I'm not "done" yet for the month is the ONLY thing that's keeping me sane after this last cooking show!!
She had told me the day before that she was expecting 10-12 guests. I spoke to her 5 hours before the show & she said the RSVP list had dropped and would be about 7-10 people. When I arrived she said several more had bailed on her at the last minute.
6:30 comes and no guests have arrived. It was also at that time, that the host put her hubby to work in the kitchen so she could go shower.
At 6:35, the first guest arrived ... who happens to be next week's host.
At 6:45, the host announced that she had another guest who would be there at 7. The kids are still running through the house & trying to play with all the PC tools. So while trying to keep an eye on my stuff, I did get some one-on-one time with next week's host to plan the menu.
7:00 arrives and two more guests show up saying that another one is right behind them.
7:05 we finally have a 4th guest & start the show. The guests announce that their two 2nd grade girls want to "help" with the interactive cooking show, which of course brought the host's rambunctious boys out of their room to help too.
It took 1 hour and 20 min's to do what should have taken 30 min's. The guests sat on the couch & visited while I entertained the kids. They didn't seem to be interested in the presentation or trying out any of the tools. They were perfectly content in letting me babysit while they visited.
Three of the four ordered. Total sales between the three guests: $85.50 :grumpy:
I'm crossing my fingers that she's able to collect some outside orders to at least make a show. I'd hate to think that I did all that work and got paid less than $20 to babysit.
Thank goodness I had a total of 9 shows this month. I've closed 2, have 6 open & one more this weekend. The fact that I've already taken $2399.57 in commissionable sales and I'm not "done" yet for the month is the ONLY thing that's keeping me sane after this last cooking show!!