Snow Storms and Home Cooking Parties in December

[lrmart]

Snow storms here today .... had a huge fundraiser....15 people showed up (instead of the few hundred we were expecting).

Tomorrow we have another snow storm we are expecting...I was expecting it to be my biggest home cooking party (12 people)....the roads probably won't be plowed in the area I'll be going to.

3 more parties this week....

So...I wonder what it would be like to do this in....ohh.....Arizona? Is there snow in Arizona? We just started this about a month ago. November did really well, but so far, December seems to be pretty crappy.

I was hoping on a $1,500 party today. Don't count your chickens, eh?

 

[JAE]

Too early to get down about December. Just the fact that you have so many shows scheduled for November is great!

 

[mistym]

I was a little bummed my party for today cancelled but now I am so happy! First the 10cm and then the ice storm! Phew..I dodged a bullet there

However, I never had bad shows and I think its my view point. Even if one person shows up, I just made a new contact, a new potential hostess and a repeat customer

 

[fikibiff]

I had a vendor/craft fair yesterday. It was my first one. I had my booth all set and was ready to go. And then it started snowing and sleeting and freezing. We were lucky if 50 people came. At lease 6 of the vendors didn't show up and everyone started packing up at 4pm - the show started at 2.

I did get 3 orders, about $70 worth and 1 catalog maybe and 2 cooking show maybe's. It could have been worse. Of course, I made 12 batter bowl mixes and about 60 pretzel wreaths and didn't sell a single one. Now I have to figure out what to do with them all.

 

[peichef]

I had a show for tonight that I had to cancel On the positive side, I got to spend my after school time making snowmen with the kids instead of getting ready for my show.

 

[stefani2]

What Fundraiser were you doing that you expected that many people???