As many of the women in my family are breast cancer survivors, we’re always on the lookout for ways to get involved. This year, my survivor cousin is hosting a booth at her Relay for Life event, and we need things to sell. So far, my woodworker mom is making pink-stained drink coasters, my aunt is making quilts, a cousin is making bracelets, etc…all with the breast cancer theme. My idea was to make shirts with hand prints over the boob region that say “I Touch Myself”–but they already exist! (Damn.)
So any ideas? I’m good at painting and drawing, but what? To clarify, I’m not asking for anyone to donate or make anything on my behalf…just ideas for me and the others involved.
It sounds like that’s already kind of a lot of stuff for a single booth. It takes a lot less stuff than you would think to fill a standard size craft booth, and if you start cramming too much stuff in the place looks less appealing and sales tend to go down. I’d probably leave it alone, unless you’re going to have a huge-ass booth.
If you have room, I guess maybe you could do some pink ribbon-themed postcards.
The biggest seller at our local Relay for Life thingie was ENERGY DRINKS.
Monster is the juice du jour for all the tweeners and teens. I am talking fookin’ case loads of this stuff. They outsold everything.
Keep your booth simple. Don’t bother with little items. Supply **the juice **and some boxes of pixie stix (ring pops) or other kid spazzing item.
Our Relay is pretty small and the biggest sellers were food and drinks, so Shirley’s idea sounded good to me. There was a separate area inside one building where each group had submitted themed baskets for raffles and each ticket sold for the items was credited to the team that had submitted that basket. So raffle tickets might be another suggestion; for this year’s Relay we sold tickets late last summer into fall with packages from area sports teams (baseball, hockey) and other donated items.
I don’t know where you are located, but last year was cold and rainy for us. If there had been rain ponchos for sale, they would have gone like gangbusters. I think we might have to find some for our team this year and have them ready for sale.
My breast cancer crew has been going gangbusters selling cookbooks. I don’t know what your time frame is, but if you have a few months, some good recipes, and a talent for illustration and layout, consider this.
These ideas are awesome! I think you’re all right that I don’t need to fill up the booth with random tchotchkes. I just start feeling the pressure from my uber-crafty family. I think I’ll try to get some recipes together (maybe find some chemo-friendly and cancer preventative ones) and bundle them up with goodies.
For breast cancer patients going through chemo, I would recommend goodie bags with
Lip Balm
Hand Lotion
A stuffed animal (I took my teddy bear with me to chemo that a Doper sent me)
Hard lemon candy (to combat kitty litter mouth)
A hat of some sort
I knitted a couple of hats that I’ll be donating to the women’s center on my next appointment.
An idea I had for a shirt is a couple of pancakes, with “Save the Boobies! Squish the Boobies!”