i would say, check the yellow pages for your area for a bottled water supplier. ask them to donate (or loan) a bunch of the 3 or 5 gallon bottles to you. 3 gallon would be better, like someone said, they get very heavy. if they can stick their company info on them somehow, it would be like free advertising for them. ask the local bank as well for use of the coin counting machine for when you are done, you dont want to be caryying 30 gallons of loose change into bank night. (my bank does this. they just ask me to put in a deposit slip with the info filled out escept the amount. when they finish running it into the machine, the call me with the final $ amount and i write a check to cover it all)
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Lisa
March 3, 2008 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments
brandi_jo_127
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penny war
Hello, Could you explain to me what a penny war is and how to cordinate one? Thank you.
March 2, 2008 - 12:48am login or register to post comments
AmyWilliams
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Penny Wars
Hi-
What we did for our relay was we split our teams up into 3 groups Celebrate, Remember & Fight Back (blue, Purple & red) Had teams pick painted popsicle sticks to determine which they were in. Pennies & dollars count as positive and all silver is negative. Went to B.J.s or some other bulk store and bought big jugs of pretzels or what ever else comes in clear jugs. Then put lables on out side stating the names of groups on a back ground of the color group paper ie: fight back is on red paper. Then to make things competitive I put the team names that are in ea. group. Taped that to the other side of jug. At each monthly meeting I line them up for all to see. Our realy is fairly small so I invite all team memebers to come to monthly meetings. Towards the end we declare our "penny war on cancer". So the way it goes is: say team A puts $10 worth of pennies in their jug and team B bombs them w/ $15 of silver coin team A is now at a negative $5. And team C has a $5 bill in their jug and team A bombs them w/ a roll of quarters (silver coin) team C is now at a negative $5. In the meantime team B has $5 of pennies and two $1 bills but no silver coin they are at a positive $7. Does that make sense?! Hope it helps. This was our 1st yr. trying big success. After 2 meetings as a whole we've raised $165. In the end the team who has the most positive $'s will get 1/2 the pot & the other 2 teams will split the other 1/2. Good Luck! Amy Williams Event Chair Gloucester VA
March 12, 2008 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments
zarabeth
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Joined: 2008-01-17
Penny Wars
Hi Amanda,
I just finished coordinating a "Penny War" at work for our Workplace Charity Drive (Combined Federal Campaign) so here is lots of advise. First we started by using plastic Containers from Walmart. They were big and cost about $5.00 each but we could not find enough of them (we needed 10), so one of my co-workers went to CVS Pharmacy and bought a Big Clear Plastic Container with Cheese Balls (like Cheetos) in it and we found out that that was the best. It only cost $2.98 and we had cheese balls galore in the office for the first day or so. In the end we collected over $500 worth of pennies. Our biggest problem was transporting them (they are extremely heavy in big containers) and then our next problem was Redeeming them for casth. No bank would accept such a large amount. We tried the County Assessor's Office who would accept them but in limited quanities. In the end one of my co-workers went to Coin-Star at the Local Ralphs and stood in line for about 2 1/2 hours. Unfortunately he was unable to get exact amounts for each team since it was taking so long to get thru just what he had. In the end, everyone says it was worth it as we had great fun competing against each others team and one of our teams (just by sight had the most) won bragging rights to the best in the Agency and I had fun egging everyone on. Well I hope this helps. You should also try the 99cents stores, Dollar stores etc. They may have better buys. Let me know how it goes. Good luck with your relay.
Z
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Caroline D'Angelo
February 28, 2008 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments
relaydivajuli
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Penny war containers
What about the big water jugs? Or maybe old fish tanks? If you're in an area where craigslist is big, you can sometimes find them there for free.
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