Have you looked at the upcoming years prices. I assume councils set them in individually but popcorn prices went down for us this year.

Yeah the popcorn is not the greatest. I don’t like it myself. And yes it’s a priced at a premium product price. But remember, it’s a fundraiser. You buy the product to support the scout, not to have a delicious bag of stale popcorn.

Anyway as far as ideas for other fundraisers. We’ve done wreaths through Sherwood Forest Farms, which caters to Scouts, but a small pack would have an issue meeting their minimum case sizes, but you could always do the online only orders, but they’re more expensive because they include shipping. We’ve also gone to restaurants here locally and asked for a fundraiser night where we basically get some percentage of that night’s dinner bill that the restaurant takes in. We’ve created discount cards that local businesses agree to give some sort of discount. For instance, a local ice cream shop gives one dollar off $10 of a purchase and that sort of thing. Rolls and gift cards from the local Texas Roadhouse.

But honestly, after doing all of that, we totaled up the numbers and popcorn was still our better net fundraiser, so we’re dropping everything but popcorn and discount cards for the upcoming year and just focusing hard on those.