[Accrs] Drink Fund comments

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Hi Dean and All Others,


I can't tell you how much we appreciate you making sure these supplies are available to the group.  There are times when I send Garon over to you and he doesn't prepare.  If these drinks weren't there he would probably dehydrate due to engineering (playing :)


Thank you again so much.  Everyone stay cool and take care!


Varina Michaelis
Garon's Mom





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From: Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org>
To: accrs <accrs at mail.accrs.org>
Sent: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 2:07 pm
Subject: [Accrs] Drink Fund comments

Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.netMembersThere are a lot of different sodas, waters, teas and juices out there.   All come with a certain price.In order to keep the price of items at $.50 per item, I can't be purchasing 6 or 8 packs of tea or sparkling water that run more than $.50 each.   I saw some individual items today, on special, for $.79 each plus CRV.  Things like Gatoraide, brewed tea, sparkling water are mostly over my $.50 per item budget.   Any additional money we make over the sale of the items, plus the recycle dollars I get from the recycle, go to fund the meat and other items at the annual BBQ.If the club wants to have a two tier system of $.50 and $1.00 we can go for some of the more expensive drinks.I have two cases of unopened water at the Fair, plus a mostly stocked fridge with water.   I got 4 more cases today plus some standard soda and some other no sugar types of drinks.   They may or may not have a diet sweetener, but no sugar was listed on the side panel.  It was $70.00 worth of items.    I track everything in Excel.  Sometimes I have a positive balance, other times it is negative.   I just put it on a credit card and keep track of the eb and flow of the funds. It eventually balances out.I have been doing the drinks since 2002 when Carlo gave it up.   During that time, I have managed, generally, to have enough funds for the BBQ.    I am not saying that I am looking to give up doing it, but certainly if anyone else would like to do it, they are more that welcome to try.Let me know if you know of a source of cheap sparkling water and unsweetened tea or other drinks.  It takes time to hit Costco, WalMart, Target, etc, looking for the best prices.  I certainly try to shop the sales.Thanks.Dean_______________________________________________Accrs mailing listAccrs at mail.accrs.orghttps://mail.accrs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/accrs
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