Bottle tombola

Joshan

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. Our school has a non-uniform day - but they pay £1 each and I get to spend it on stocking up the stall. Unfortunately people round here don't seem to like non-alcoholic bottles.... if they can't drink it they moan!!! I do bulk it out with pepsi max (just got 6 1ltr bottles for £2 in Asda), and usually get cases of beer too but this year bargains seem to be really hard to come by. Might change it to a credit-crunch tombola and stick anything on it,lol.

Chris25

ALDI do cheap shandy in small bottles - can't verify how much alcohol in it but at least there's some

coxy07

Dont forget, you cant give the alcoholic prizes to under 18s. You have to ask them to get an adult to collect it.

MrsBartolozzi

I saw this mentioned on the grabbit board, might be of use to you.

Originally posted by Geordie_bear (please thank them if useful to you)
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=22740541#post22740541

In Morrisons
10 pack of Coors light 275ml £5 or 4 packs for £15
10 pack of Stella 250ml £5 or 4 packs for £15
10 pack of Grolsch 250ml £5 or 4 packs for £15
10 pack of Brothers pear cider 250ml £5 or 4 packs for £15

equates to 37.5p a bottle if you get the 4 packs for £15 :beer:

limited to 8 packs per customer!:beer:

MrsB.

theladsmum

Our school does a bottle stall - ask people to donate three wrapped bottles. 2 empty, 1 full. Can be anything - alcohol, non-alco, toiletries, ketchup, etc. Stand them out on a table, and you pay whatever to pick one out (without touching!). Always a very popular stall - first to sell out normally.

Debt_Free_Dreamer

theladsmum wrote: »

Our school does a bottle stall - ask people to donate three wrapped bottles. 2 empty, 1 full. Can be anything - alcohol, non-alco, toiletries, ketchup, etc. Stand them out on a table, and you pay whatever to pick one out (without touching!). Always a very popular stall - first to sell out normally.

This is similar to a 'mock auction' where you get people to wrap up unwanted gifts etc., and then you bid on the item. It can be really great if you get a good Auctioneer to persuade people to part with their cash.

On one occaison I wrapped up a bottle of Malibu and someone recongnised the shape of the bottle and bid steep. They did not realise I had filled the empty bottle with water and paid over £10 for it. Luckily they were a mate and saw it in good humour as the event was for charity. But I was panicking throughout the whole bidding process. :eek:

It was so funny when they unwrapped it and thought they had won the bottle of malibu, took a swig from the bottle and realised it was water. :rotfl::rotfl:

My mate who was a nurse wrapped an enema. A plastic bottle (a bit like a drip bottle) with a long tube attached for putting up your bottom!!. :rotfl::rotfl:

Loopy_Lobes

Tesco have bottles of bubble bath and shower gels for around 50p each, I expect the other supermarkets do too. This is what I sent my daughter to school with when they had a non uniform day last week.

Joshan

Hi, I would just like to thank everyone again for their great ideas. I managed to spend £170 raised from a non uniform day and get 172 bottles and cans. this included : wine from Habs @ £2.79 a bottle, 20 cans Stella for £10 from Asda, bottles of Port, whisky, gin, rum, Baileys mint,and vodka. Also a 1ltr bottle of Pimms for £10 (from Morrisons but noticed it in Sainsburys this week for the same price). We had some donations of bacardi breezers and wine too.
The fair took place on friday evening and the Bottle Tombola raised £239. So some profit was made and a huge sigh of relief that I now don't have to price up/buy any more booze that I am not allowed to drink myself until Christmas!!!!
Thanks once again to all you moneysavers for your advice.

paulwf

Where I used to live the booze that the police confiscated from the teenage underage drinkers went to stock the bottle stall for the local summer fair. Might be worth having a word with your local police station!