First thing i would do is seperate the items into 3 piles... children's items, adult's items, and items that fit both groups..
i think 350 is the minimum number of bags you want to do especially if there is more coming. Figure the minimum number of adults and children's bags you want to do and then the fun begins.. start filling the bags using any "extra" bags from minimum numbers and use as needed in the groups..
I hope that this made sense.. I just have completed the fourth one of these.. i am the offical "Bag Stuffer"..
Okay I found all kinds of stuff for our bags. Now I feel a bit dizzy about how to put them together. I had intended to make them truly random anything goes bags, but other people have had different suggestions. The big one was to make some a kids grad bag. I mentioned that the club passes would be only for adults and we need to make 250 bags. They suggested we double up on some of them for the adult's bags. So I was thinking of doing a mom's bag too.
I figured we have over 4000 items with a value of roughly $55,000+. I need 250 bags total. I want to charge $3-$5 for each. I would love suggestions on how to divide things and what kinds of bags people think would be appealing. Brainstorming would help us out a lot.
Here is what I have:
Army corps of engineers coloring books 50
Forest service jr ranger badge stickers 100
Water safety posters 30
Kung Fu and Tai chi 10 classes pass 250
McDonald's toys-variety 173
Milk Matters Books 100
Milk Matters Coloringbooks 100
Dairy Queen Free cone 250
Mational Eye institute- coloring book 150
Energy lab pencils + posters 31
Airline college, posters, planes 8
organic lunch posters 100
don't smoke posters boys2men 35
don't smoke posters model 24
FEMA coloring books 90
FEMA books 50
Milk matters stickers 25
Various posters 65
Safety posters 100
Dept Ed. Booklets - various 40
Various coloring books 46
Reading/writing books 240
Pencils 80
Animal erasers 30
Pampered chef misc 12
Lady's fitness 1 month pass 200
24 hr Fitness 2 week pass 250
Home &garden party candles 24
Realtor's water bottles 250
Sears portrait free 10X13 350
Cheese cookbooklets 250
Sunsweet Light bake booklet 250
Blood drive t-shirts 85
Armed forces pencils, cups, ect. 335
Marines hat and backpack 4
state farm cups, can openers 15
We still have more coming and I don't have all the bags yet. Any suggestions? We're putting them together on the 14th.
