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Originally Posted by MRSDOUBTFIRE
I buy my moss from b&q, its for hanging baskets but I can buy packets for around £1 each, I make wreaths to raise money for our WI ladies. I make lots up out of conifer and holly and the ladies and I have a fabulous afternoon decorating them with plastic and dried flowers, ribbons and berries, we sell them at our christmas fair for £2.50 each. We have been doing this for 3 years and we are now getting advance orders for them!. The florists in our town sell them for £10 each and they don't look any better than the ones we make up!.
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Mrs Doubtfire,
If you are genuinely happy to sell your wreaths for £2.50 each to make money for your charity and happy to give your time free doing it AND if the wreaths are actually professional quality then I would like to buy them from you to sell on in my shop. As shop keepers we have to pay minimum wage to our staff. Allowing for wages, rent, rates, utilities, tax, and then of course our own wage we could never produce wreaths for that price.
This year I have been quoted £5 from my supplier for holly wreaths. I usually make my own but as floristry is my only means of living I would be in serious financial difficulty if I sold them for £2.50 each.
So let me know if you are interested. I will pay you £2.50 each for plain undecorated moss based holly wreath or holly/spruce wreath. (I presume you use a wire wreath ring wrapped in plastic as your base before adding the moss?) If you are interested please let me have a photo of the wreaths (front and back) so that I can assess their quality.
I am surprised that you haven't thought of supplying florists rather than take a stall at a market. From the point of view of the charity benefiting it would be better financially for them. All your time should go to making the wreaths and selling them on to florists or other outlets like greengrocers rather than taking a market stall to sell them. Not as much fun for you, but better business management, and more profitable for the charity.
That's the difference between doing something for fun in your leisure time and doing something for business. If you don't get it right and don't make enough profit the charity still benefits, just not as well as it could. If we don't make enough profit we don't eat!