Ok guys need some input. Our family Reunion has a live auction and they ask for donations. One year I made a set of greeting cards 12 all occasion cards envelopes, pen and candle in a pretty basket tied with ribbon, it sold for...............$3.00
Last year I made a Pillow and hand quilted it, they ................put it on the free choose a gift table. What would you do? I said never again BUT these are a bunch that will remind me that I "Forgot" I would like to forget to go but hubby likes it and has a much better time than I do. I have a week and a half!!

This sounds like the perfect time to "regift" something you have and don't particularly want!

Pick up something from Target? UglyCook has a great idea!

I know what I would do. Make the donation for the auction and buy it back and give it away as a gift. It really is a win, win situation. I have a friend that does that for a local club. She wins the auctions on her items and they still get some money.

re-gift, yard sale find, something from Big Lots? ? ? :?

We don't 'do' that family reunion auction thing anymore - once was enough...
my contribution was machine embroidered dish towels and DH did some fancy scroll work to make a small shelf - we aren't talking garbage, done careless, or ugly but something made out of used babyfood jars brought in more....

just take a hotpad or something, or a pincushion like that one in the flower pot...

The more I think about it I may just go with the I forgot or Just not enough time to make something. Or Are you kidding after the last things I donated! LOL The invite came today, I knew about it for a year tho. These are people who will bid $15.00 for a jar of homemade pickles!!

Go to Wally World and p/u a candle. :lol: :lol:

LOL, go buy a jar of pickles, take the label off and put a piece of fabric on the lid, tie a ribbon around it and get $15.00 for it.