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Valentines Day is a great time for fundraising, particularly for school groups and small nonprofits. Here are four quick ways to raise funds with easy Valentines Day fundraisers.

Sell Roses

One of the easiest ways to raise funds on Valentines Day is to sell roses. You can offer single roses, a full dozen, various flower bouquets, or delicious chocolate roses.

Each one can usually be sold at 100% markup for a 50% profit margin. You can source roses from supermarkets with flower departments, wholesale florists, or websites that specialize in bulk shipments from the major rose-growing areas on the West Coast.

Obviously, men will make up the bulk of your target market for flower buyers, so you should gear your marketing to them. You’ll need to pre-sell your roses or stake out some high-traffic areas to reach a lot of last-minute guys.

Chocolate roses are a great seller in schools and workplaces. They are a great gift that fits a good niche on Valentines Day. They are unique and generate a lot of interest. They are also a safe gift to give for non-romantic purposes, and they never go to waste.

Take advance orders whenever possible and have a central pickup point. You can also increase your results by providing extra services on Valentines Day such as gift delivery, singing telegrams, offering last-minute roses in high-traffic locations, etc.

Create Gift Baskets

It’s easy to create gift baskets for your group to pre-sell for Valentines Day. Simply go to a craft store such as Michaels and purchase the quantity of baskets you’ll need. Then do several shopping runs to major wholesale clubs like BJ’s, Sam’s Club, and Costco for your gift basket contents.

Create some baskets with a selection of wine, cheese, chocolates, coffee, candy, gourmet biscuits, etc. Give them each a theme and establish a variety of price ranges.

Once you have your samples ready, you can start pre-selling. Use a simple order taker form and collect payment upfront. Then, create the rest of the baskets needed to fulfill your advance orders.

Use a central pickup point or offer local delivery or UPS shipping for an extra charge.

Auction Valentines Day Gifts

Another great Valentines Day fundraiser is to conduct auctions of gifts appropriate for the holiday. Your choices include running an event-based auction, conducting a silent auction, hosting an online auction on your website, or listing your gifts on eBay. You can even do combinations of these four auction styles.

Some simple items to auction are the gift baskets mentioned above. You can also offer restaurant gift certificates, specialty items, business services, or donated items.

High-ticket items that you can offer might include spa visits, limo rides, romantic weekend getaways, and a night on the town at a gourmet restaurant.

Don’t forget to offer gifts for men such as sports memorabilia, event tickets, bottles of wine, etc.

Raffle Themed Prizes

Another way to raise funds is to sell raffle tickets. You can offer a selection of prizes such as those Valentines Day gifts previously mentioned. Or, you can even include some with a different theme or timing such as ski vacations or a condo stay with a week at the beach.

Raffles offer an easier way to reach a larger potential audience than you might draw for an event or for various types of auctions.

A raffle allows you to put a larger sales force to work than you can with other methods, but be sure to check your local regulations regarding selling raffle tickets.

Good luck with your Valentines Day fundraisers!

My 2 months anniversary is on February 14th( Valentines day) and I would like to hear ideas of what to do, a good gift where to go?? Remember that its valentines day and 2 months anniversary!
Thanks

Every wondered what to give to your love once on Valentine’s Day rather than the old fashion flowers, chocolates. candy or cute teddy bears? I bet its one of the hardest gift to give her or rather the most expensive one. So how can you spend so little and make her touch rather than spending all your life savings on an expensive candle light dinner?

I bet I have my point there. One thing you need to know, is that you don’t need an expensive gift to make her happy. Little things can make her happy and remember that Valentine’s day forever.

So what do girls want? This is a question bugging every guy?

If you care creative I would recommend you making hand made cards. Yes hand made cards with a special message from YOU left inside. Don’t just copy the message from the internet and write it down. Write what you truly feel. Write whats from your heart.

If you are patient I would recommend you making stars. Stars? Yes stars. Its easy to fold and girls love them because it is said to make girls dream come true and seeing that you took the initiative to make it. They will LOVE it.. Be sure to find out the meaning of the stars you are making because it has different meanings.

If you are not patient, not creative.. Then spend a little, buy her a silver ring… Don’t give her just like that… Engrave a message like “I LOVE YOU” on it. or if you want you can buy white gold for her…

So what are you going to do the whole day without spending a dime? If you are living alone try cooking for her. You don’t have to be a top chef to cook. There are many simple dish from the internet that you can learn from and cook. Don’t tell me you cant make pasta right?

Valentine day is about two people doing things together, so no matte what you do, it will be romantic.. seeing that both of you must do together of course. Even if its prawn fishing, cooking, picnic, going to the fun fair.. anything at all. Do it together.. Don’t spend all your savings just to make her happy. Do what you feel is from your heart. Like I said, do activities together.. IF you have money you can consider sky jump, bungee jumping.. This is something fun that both will have fun doing. Imagine her hugging you during the bungee jump. Have I make myself clear?

I don’t need to give you 101 tips on what you can do on Valentines day, because the 101 things that you can do is right in your heart. Have fun.

What is a good, cute appropriate dress i could wear for my school valentines day dance?
The valentines day dance for my school (middle school) is coming up soon and i desperately need a cute dress to wear (red and pink and stuff id good but all ideas are more than welcome. ideas? websites? brands? pics?

Valentines Day

What are the dumbest things we can do on VDAY

1. Thinking what you do on VDAY is all you need to do for the year to keep your partner happy.

2. Thinking what you do the day after VDAY will be made up for by being nice 354 days from now

3. Thinking that spending money on VDAY makes up for being a selfish overworked a-hole for the rest of the year.

4. Giving a fat person Chocolates

5. Giving a person with Hay fever, flowers.

6. Doing something that you really enjoy as a gift for them. Like parachute jumping….

7. Waiting till today to think about a present.

Things to avoid on VDAY – choose the worst

Here are some major stuff ups on Vday:

Never make a promise you can’t keep

Drinking Champaign from the bottle

Being alone

Being late

Sending roses by courier and not giving anything else

Writing the wrong name on the Vday card

Buying Chocolates and leaving them out of the fridge

Going to footy training then arriving late because they had a few beers after

Forgetting to call

Remembering to call and finding someone else there

Forgetting

Thinking that “I don’t want anything” means “I don’t want anything”

Thinking that “I want something small” means “chocolates” it’s a diamond dummy.

Forgetting that whatever you spend you’ll never get back.

Doing something so wonderful that the rest of the year is an anticlimax (literally)

Not being alone on valentines day

Being missing from the office from 12.30 to 4.30

Giving a gift you can’t afford

Spending money without making any effort

Forgetting to write or give a poem to your lover.

Five absolute winners to make this valentines day the best you ever had

What are the most important things we can do on valentines day that make our relationships sacred and absolutely guarantee we’ll be together forever. Valentines day is like the world cup of love. If you can’t win today, then back to the drawing board. Today shows us what is going to make a relationship last forever

1. Say thank you – everyday of your life – Make everyday a valentines day

Do a thank you prayer together – that means sitting face to face, and take it in turns to say thank you for anything that this person brings into your life. Remember to say thank you for the thinks that challenge you, got to find a way to be thankful for everything. Then, do it everyday for the rest of your life together for 10 minutes before bed. Guaranteed to make everyone happy. Count your blessings. You are thankful – you don’t want to change a thing about them, you are so thankful. Sexiest thing you can do to a lover. Say thank you. Appreciate them. It’s not just one branch of a tree – it’s the whole thing, past, family, friends, enemies.

2. Live the dream

Do something that makes your lover’s dreams come true. Remember it’s the love you give that is the important thing. Think short term pleasure as well as long term dreams. Short term pleasure means a gift for taste, touch, smell, beauty and sound. Long term gift is something that helps them live their dreams. This is the glue for love. Invest in their dreams – not just yours…. People stay together because their dreams come true.

3. Get over it. Evolvyabastard…. Turn up…

We carry around so much baggage about something that someone did to us, even our current partner and we wonder why they aren’t showing up as we’d like. Get over it. Evolveyabastard is what I say. Move it. (this could be talkback) like how do I get over it. Evolveyabastard —- Not infatuated. For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health – it’s great because its not some fantasy about happy ever after, Spiritual love is eternal love, support and challenge. Every star has it, so do you. Public and private. The more they pretend they are one thing, the more they are the opposite.

4. Turn it off to turn em on. Shut up and listen

Get outside in nature, alone, somewhere beautiful, and just sit. Look at the stars or the mosquitoes or the clouds – look up. Turn them on by turning it off (mobile phone, the tv, the radio, the dishwasher, the car, your mind, your wants.) in other words learn to listen. Throw away all your self help books and start from “there’s nothing to change, you are perfect” They are the most important person in the whole world – in fact no one is more important today. No friend, parent, child, work, In the zone. Turn it off to turn them on. They are the whole universe, everything comes down to this.

5. A big idea with little steps – love is cumulative…

Love is a lifestyle. As a couple do something for someone else. Have a reason for being together bigger than the two of you. You loose yourself. When we say YOU and ME, we are in our EGO. They are you. If they are happy you are happy. If they are feeling loved you are feeling loved. There is no you and me. It’s them.