Our guild charges $1 a month for membership. We have terrific membership and excellent programs and classes for which there is no charge. The first year we have to pay $6.00 for our membership pin. If we don't have our pin on when we have a meeting (once a week) we have to pay a 50 cent fine. We end up giving 3 - $1,000 scholarships to local high school seniors. We have our own "cottage" where we pay a very small amount of rent. We learn to hand quilt and the guild has 6 sewing machines for members to use. We also can have classes on a different day other than the meeting day and there is also no charge. Every 2nd Saturday we also have a 4 hour get together where we can bring anything to work on and there is a senior quilter there to help us with any questions. Guess we have a great deal going.