As you read-- lisa wrote about what mom2mom sales are-- but you are looking for more information go to www.mom2momlist.com and look at the listings for mom2mom sales--- this is a great way to raise funds for your school without having to sell a product- and it inludes your whole community-- not just the families from your school-- I firmly believe this type of fundsraiser helps everyone involved.

We run one at our school. We have moms pay $20 to rent a table (we sold 85 tables) and $3 for a clothing rack space. The moms sell their kids clothing, toys, etc. We then have a big item room so they can sell, cribs, high chairs, etc. We also have a concession stand and charge $2 per person as an entrance fee. We allow strollers, some schools only have them after a certain time. Ours runs from 8:30 am -1 pm. We generated $ 2000. There is a mom2mom website, this may help you out. Good Luck!

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what is a mom 2 mom sale?

At our Elementary School, we are always doing the same fundraiser's. Fundraisers in the previous years, T-Shirts for Field Trips, sizes for both kids and adults. We did a Fundraiser in October with the "Great American Fundraiser", but the complaint from parents were some of the items were to expensive, but we did fair on that. At the beginning of the school year for 2009-2010, the PTO President came up with a fundraiser and we "meaning the Executive Board" would go around with a list of items that we needed from like Lumber Companies, we had an electrition come and wire the playground the set up for electricity, we had a dad of the school that my husband knew from the Elementary and put in a beautiful wooden floor. We spld raffle tickets, $1 each or 3 for $5. We sold I believe a little over 400 tickets and drew the winner during our PTO Parent Meeting in December, just in time for Christmas. We did a Fundraiser at Valentine's Day and made up order forms to be sent out, we advertised them at Valentine Day Baskets, but just a few days from the last day we had meant to advertise the as Valentines Day Bags filled with sometype of Stuff Animal, variety of colors, few pieces of both chocalote and candy, pencils with hearts on them, there we little gift items ordered from a catalog. In years past the would do the Baskets and charge $8 per baskets, then the current PTO at that time had to find sometype of Baskets because the Principal said you advertise that and that should be done. Someone of the PTO Board order this small cheap little baskets from a company, we were suppose to shreaded the tissue paper, but didn't get done, so we just put 2 pieces inside the baskets. Then used the Valentine Bags that we had ordered to wrap up the baskets. We sold our for $6 and got more than 450 orders and in the previous years they would have about 250 orders. We did get complaints from parents, student, staff and teachers that these basket we just awful. Which I said at the time we were discussing them. This last May when we had our last Executive Board meeting we shared what complaints were made had most of us agreed that yes the price went down from previous years, but the look cheap and the Volunteers who worked on the Baskets were in a hurry and didn't I guess cared. We did'nt another FR any time after Valentin's Day. I need some help coming up with new idea's. If you do, please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thanks again for what each one is doing for their own school. PLEASE HELP ME IDEA'S FOR THE UPCOMING 2010-2011 School year.

We do 2 crop days a year one is in the winter for parents and one is April for kids ( the idea is that they can make something for mother's day, father's day etc.)

We have alot of success with both. We actually promote it beyond our school community and at least a quarter of the participants are not from our school.

We are lucky to have several moms who have lots of supplies that they let us use and we also get donations (toss aways) from craft stores. We charge $25 dollars for the event and do not serve food - it's bring your own lunch but most people do leave with a completed album

I think if you promote it well you will do well. Maybe in the summer it would work best to do it as a kids workshop? Good luck.

We started doing this 4 years ago-- we had a 12 hour crop at the school--- great turn out-- it included lunch and dinner-- we had raffles, grab bags and a 50/50 twice through out the day-- we charged 25.00 per person and had over 40 people signed-up... we found out afterward that the janitor was charging 45.00 per hour since we did this on a sat.-- ate up alot of the profit---

So we learned and went off-site the next year- charged 25.00 again and hard 30 people-- was great, but complaints on lighting in facility were a problem for us--

So we went to a 5-10pm crop on a friday night at the school- dinner included--- 10.00 per person--- pizza, salad, drinks, snacks--- raffles, and door prizes.... made over 400.00 dollars and we did this twice in the year-- it has gone down over last two years-- so we're looking to do another mom2mom sale instead this year-- we make 2,000 a sale--