One of the things I didn't know about being on a board is the tremendous amount of fundraising involved. It seems like it is non-stop. This summer, the members of the board were tasked with selling raffle tickets for The Ultimate Dine Out - a contest where the winner would take home $100 gift cards from 35 different restaurants in Frederick County. If you're good at math, you can quickly see that adds up to $3,500 in gift cards.
Being the person that I am, and absolutely hating fund-raising, I bailed on my chore of selling raffle tickets and decided to buy the lot myself. It was a hefty investment, but I purchased 30 tickets for $250 (tickets were $10 ea., or 3 for $25). I felt it would be well worth the money in order to save myself the hassle (and hey-it was going to the Boys & Girls Club FC).
Cut to a Frederick Keys game in very late August. I've just arrived home from picking up AVB from a road trip with grandma, then settled in to check out Facebook. One of the perks of buying a raffle ticket was also a free ticket to the Keys game on that specific night. I gave a bunch of the tickets away, hoping that others would go forth and have some local baseball fun.
Imagine my surprise, no, really, more like shock, when a message from one of the gals I gave tickets to popped up and read something along the lines of "We're having a great time and the game. How great that you won the big prize!"
Say what?
And so we went, back and forth and back and forth until I was certain, absolutely positive that the prize, all $3500, was mine.
Woo-freakin'-hoo!!
So yup, I won 35 - $100 gift cards. One card/certificate from each of the following:
- Acacia*
- Beef O' Brady's
- Black Hog
- Bonefish Grill*
- Brewer's Alley*
- Callahan's
- Canal Bar & Grill
- Capital Crave
- Carriage House Inn*
- China Garden*
- Clay Oven
- The Cracked Claw*
- Danielle's*
- Dutch's Daughter*
- Dutch's at Silver Tree
- Famous Dave's
- Glory Days
- Green Turtle*
- Griff's
- Home at Braddock
- Il Porto
- Isabella's*
- La Paz
- Magoo's
- May's
- Mick's
- Monocacy Crossing
- Morgan's American Grill*
- Olives*
- Pizza Blitz
- Red Horse
- The Shamrock
- Pizzeria Uno*
- Viet Gourmet
- Volt
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT I WON THIS???
We've used/given away a little less than half so far, which has been really, really fun, and I'm looking forward to using the rest to treat family & friends throughout the fall.
My question is this: Do you think you'll buy a raffle ticket from me next year?
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