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In the past, when we run a book fair, it runs for one school week, with a family night on Thursday night. This year, due to scheduling conflicts, we'll be running it from Tuesday to the following Monday. So, I wanted to suggest trying a Saturday family day. Has anyone tried to have a family day over the weekend? Any idea how it compared, profit wise, with a weeknight?
Thanks!

Rebeckolah,

We just finished our book fair and tried the weekend this year. Our school week was 4 days instead of 5 that week, so being a parochial school, we opened the book fair on Sunday for a few hours following our last mass.

I'd definitely do it again. We average about $1,000 a day in sales and in a few hours on Sunday, we did about 1/2 of that.

If you can't do it on Sunday, I'd try to schedule it around something else that is going on to help motivate parents to stop in on the weekend.

As a working parent, I would love to be able to go with my child and Saturday would be an option. i did stop by ours this year on my lunch a pick a book. i would have rather been with my son and let him pick it.

Ours does it parent teacher conference week, so the kids visit during the day and make a wishlist, and then the parents can go and buy the books the kids want. The kids can also bring the money to school to purchase the books.