Another Garage Sale…

Following the success of our first garage sale, we’ve decided to try our luck again with another.  This Sunday, September 2, 2007 we will be holding another garage sale in Greenfield Park.

Where: 977 Bellevue, Greenfield Park

Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

If anyone has anything they would like to donate to sell, please feel free to contact me through this site or by email to booba-licious@hotmail.com.

And, as always, if you can’t make it out to the sale, please feel free to donate by following one of the links on the righthand side. Thank you!

Working at the Car Wash…

You’re supposed to read that title to the tune of the seventies dance song… And now it’s probably stuck in your head as it is in mine So we finally had our car wash on Saturday… We woke up to find that no, it wasn’t raining or cloudy like on our other attempts, but it was very windy. And chilly. Not the best car wash weather, but we weren’t canceling again. Not only were we not canceling, but we were determined to make this car wash a success and to have a great time while doing it. We even had a DJ!My friend sent his friend DJ Rafi my Facebook invitation (gotta love Facebook…) and he contacted me to volunteer his services for a few hours. That was so nice and generous of him. Thank you, Rafi! Only Booba’licious would manage to have a DJ at their car wash!  It started off slow, but for most of the morning we had a pretty constant flow of cars. Once it got busy, the time passed really quickly. We had a lot of fun and got a pretty decent workout We were also selling car magnets to raise extra money. And Julia and I spent a little over an hour standing at the intersection collecting money.  Well, walking and running in between cars every 30 seconds for 90 minutes is probably a more apt description. That was a huge success and unbelievably addictive. Even though we knew we had  to head back, every time the light turned red we wanted to give it one more go because we knew we’d collect more money. But it’s only fun when you do it with a friend. We fed off each other’s energy and the drivers did as well. When we had first decided to try and cover more corners by separating, we didn’t collect nearly as much, people ignored us, and it was very depressing and discouraging. Together, we raised $208 in less than 90 minutes!

All in all, the car wash was a success. We managed to raise just over $600 in 6 hours. Not bad! It’s a lot of work and you definitely earn that money (we were all exhausted at the end of the day), but it’s a good fundraiser. Very little investment in terms of time and money to organize and it’s fun! I posted some pictures below…

Our next activity will be another garage sale on Saturday, September 1st. More details to come!

Car Wash is Back On!

The Car Wash is back on! Hopefully it’ll happen this time, our third attempt. We tried again at the end of July, but again, the forecast called for rain and so we decided to cancel it (and it didn’t even end up raining…).  So here we go… :

Date: August 18th, 2007

Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location:  parking lot next to Place de la Mode at the corner of St. Denis and Rosemount from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

I will make a post here if there are any changes…

So we now have less than two months until the walk on September 30th.  We didn’t raise as much money this summer as we had hoped because of events being cancelled, team members being away, etc. We’ll be picking up the pace of events in the next month and a half so please check back regularly to see what’s up.  I had a BBQ at my place this past Saturday to help raise money (see some pictures below), the car wash is coming up, we’ll be having another garage sale, a spaghetti dinner, and more.  I’m super excited about the spaghetti dinner! It’s going to be so much fun! There’ll be great food, door prizes, raffles, and most importantly, an awesome Celtic rock band performing: Solstice. They’re great! More details will be coming shortly.

 In the meanwhile, please donate to our team members! Click on the links on the right to get to the donation page of several members. Thank you!