First trade!

The girls' first trade was made today, December 22, with Cathy. 

Her offer of a 5$ SMilE card from Thrifty's was accepted.

What do you have to trade for that?

Girls, start your trading!

We have started the game with a purple paperclip.
Our FaceBook page is:    https://www.facebook.com/biggerorbetterbandfundraiser

two of the four girls with their starting offer:

the purple paperclip

The Plan

Meet our daughters and band students; Lyndsay, Raven, Summer and Amanda.

Being in a school band is an excellent way to gain valuable musical skills within a group. 

It also provides the opportunity to travel, as schools organize band trips.

Trips can be quite expensive for families, so we have created 

an original way to raise funds. 

Are you familiar with the red paperclip? 

Kyle Mac Donald took the game "Bigger and Better" to a new level.

He started trading a red paperclip, and ended up with a house.

You can read his story here:

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.ca/

Our idea is to have the girls play the game over the Christmas holidays, 

trading up until they have something significant to auction off.

Each girl needs to raise over 600$ to finance their band trips.

Here are the rules:

Bigger and Better is a team building activity in which teams compete by trading ordinary objects. The winner is the team that ends up with the biggest and best items when the time expires. Each team starts with a small object, and their job is to keep trading and upgrading their team’s object to obtain the largest and most valuable item possible. They may not offer anything other than the item they have, are not obligated to accept a proffered trade and they must work together as a group.