Ideas for raising money to purchase kitchen supplies for an office?
aquariusgurl asked:
I am in charge of purchasing kitchen supplies for our office. We usually use the money left over from a bottle return but that is not covering the cost of supplies anymore.
Does anyone have some easy ideas to raise money within our office to help cover these costs?
We already have a snack/candy bin that we sell and use the profits towards something else.
We do already have coffee drinkers bring in coffee on an as needed basis. The money is needed more for dish soap, dish sponges, paper plates and silverware. we are discussing going the “green” route and having people bring in some of these items from home to re use.
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I am in charge of purchasing kitchen supplies for our office. We usually use the money left over from a bottle return but that is not covering the cost of supplies anymore.
Does anyone have some easy ideas to raise money within our office to help cover these costs?
We already have a snack/candy bin that we sell and use the profits towards something else.
We do already have coffee drinkers bring in coffee on an as needed basis. The money is needed more for dish soap, dish sponges, paper plates and silverware. we are discussing going the “green” route and having people bring in some of these items from home to re use.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Take up a collection like a couple of dollars a month to cover minor supplies. Have each person bring some supplies in. Stop having supplies at all so each person brings what they want. No need for disposable cups or plastic silverware the real thing is free after you own it.
Have a muffin sale sell soft drinks at a profit. Costco has muffins for around $6 a dozen but you can sell them for $1 each. Candy bars at Costco are about 47cents and you could sell them for 75 cents. shiprepairwoman
November 12th, 2009 at 11:14 am
In my office, nobody liked the coffee that was company supplied, so one of my co-workers brought in a coffee pot from home and we brought in our own coffee. Every week each of us chipped in $10 - to the “coffee pot”, with 35 people in our department, that made for $350/week! Although we didn’t use that much in our coffee expenses, it enabled us to get a new coffee machine with coffee of our choice, a nice new microwave and toaster oven in addition to some new break room furniture. Not sure if you want to go this route, but it worked for my department and everybody was and is happy, sweetapplepie814