We run our own, and I am happy to say, as president, that I have almost nothing to do with it this year.
We will run two flyers. The first is going out the end of this week. It will announce the shop and ask for volunteers to help operate it.
The second, which will go out two weeks before the shop, will have a short paragraph reminding what the shop is and a place to list people the child is to shop for. We talked about having parents put down amounts, too, like Grandpa J -- $5, but I am not sure if that's going to happen or not.
Our Holiday Shoppe will run from December 1-12, so we have a lot of flexibility.
We will have over 10 thousand items and have spent about $10 thousand. If we sell out, we will net over $10 thousand. (It's a little scary, and we did not set out to make quite so much, but all of the items are at huge discounts compared to department stores or mall vendors.)
By ordering early, we got lots of discounts and lots of free shipping. We also had a lot to choose from compared to last year when we didn't order until November.
If we get our flyers uploaded to the website soon, I'll post a link here.