This week I participated in helping to input items, as well as subsequently bidding on things for a charity auction. There were several things that I found interesting enough to bid on, and had I not been outbid for some things, I might have spent a lot more money.

I had to resist the urge to outbid someone who outbid me, simply because I didn’t like that they bid higher than my maximum! Of course, if I were to keep doing that, I would probably win all the items I wanted, but at what price? As it is, I ended up spending $6 more than the estimated value of one of the items. But, all the money goes toward a good cause, right?

I ended up with 3 items, and as it turns out, they are all food related. I was looking at the list of items and their bidders and saw that there were a few people who seemed to pretty much bid on every food item, and then I here I am, winning only food!

I won some homemade chocolate chip cookies, a breakfast for 2, and a dinner for 2. There were actually 2 different opportunities to win the breakfast, and Ben actually won the other one, so it looks like we will be going out to breakfast a few times (as well as dinner) in the near future! Both breakfast and dinner are at restaurants that I have not yet been to, so it will be nice to get to try new places (although Ben has been to both, so it won’t be new for him. But then, I think he’s been to most places around town, whereas I pretty much only seemed to frequent the same 3 places. I would like to change that, however, since there are so many places to try.)

Posted at 11:55 PM |