Wealth of Memories offers a way for schools and organizations to raise funds around the holidays with Holiday Memories. Students, or organization members, submit a special memory from the holidays, Wealth of Memories formats and prints the books for students/organization members to sell to parents and others, with the school/organization sharing in the profits. Studies show schools and parents are less than excited about the usual holiday season fund raisers available. Holiday Memories provides a welcome relief from the same methods used year after year and a new, thoughtful gift for the holidays. There is no cost to the schools/organizations to participate in the fund raiser. All costs are included in the price of the books being sold. Books usually sell at around $30, with the schools receiving 50% of the profits raised, about $10 per book sold. Fundraisers can be completed within 30 days. |
| Memory... Mine and my husband’s twentieth anniversary still touches me today. We thought it was going to be a nice and quiet visit during the weekend that one of our daughters and her husband came to stay at our house, which included plans for the four of us to go on a whale watch that Sunday. About a half hour out to sea on our whale watch came the announcement over the loudspeakers that someone on board was celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. That was sweet, but my first thought was that my husband hates that kind of attention. That soon passed when, over the boat’s loudspeakers, it was announced that they had an additional surprise for us, if we would just look behind us. As we turned around, we could see our other four daughters and their husbands, coming up the stairs from the deck below. I still get teary eyed when I think about it. That was too neat for words, in fact. I must learn to cry and talk at the same time. What a surprise that was, and what a great whale watch we shared together. Then we had our dinner, all together, at the Mill Wharf restaurant, where our son and his wife were able to meet us for an additional surprise. Seeing all six of our children together at the same time, in the same place, for the first time in years was very gratifying. We are blessed. Then, some of us went back to our house for a few more tears as they once again surprised us with a video that they had secretly put together. It started with some of our wedding pictures, pictures of past family moments, and recent footage of our families in both Pennsylvania and Nebraska, where they had gathered to help celebrate our anniversary. What a lot of work. What love they all showed for us and that is just how we felt, truly loved. Add to that the champagne and gift certificates as we continued to celebrate. Then the “huggy” feeling we have every time we wear those whale watch sweat shirts that they all autographed. All the planning and work just amazed us. We still tell our friends and family this story and some of them have been moved to tears themselves. As we lived that fabulous, wonderful, unique, fun, creative celebration they gave us, a thank you seemed inadequate. It was perfect. - J. N. Weymouth, MA |
| Memory... I remember having our family picture taken when I was five. We had a photographer come to the house, and we all got dressed up. My sister and I were fighting, as usual, and as I ran down the hall to get away from her, she grabbed the back of my dress and it ripped from top to bottom! The photographer was already there, so in the picture, I’m sitting on my dad’s lap, and he’s holding the back of my dress closed! The picture is adorable. No one would know my dress was completely torn, but we know. It’s a fun memory today. -D.O. Marshfield, MA |
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| Wealth of Memories |
| "Holiday Memories" |