The Great Annual Cereal Sale...A Local Event

A small news article in our small newspaper caught my eye...Post to hold annual cereal sale.

That's something you don't see everyday...

Unless you have a factory that produces cereal in your town, that is.

And, turns out, we do.

The article said the sale was scheduled for Saturday morning starting at 7am.

Ugh.

At our house Saturdays involve--as much as possible--us sleeping in. So, to go to an event we've never before attended and which we knew nothing about, AND that required us to get up early, would need to be something special, and we weren't sure if a cereal sale qualified.

Still...going to a cereal sale, fifty-bag limit, cash only, where each item cost $1 a bag. I wanted to go.

On Saturday, we ended up not sleeping in (too long...) so we hopped in the van and drove the mile or so to the fairgrounds. As we pulled in we saw several people with large cardboard boxes full of cereal making their way to their cars, vans, and trucks.

We hadn't planned on even buying anything--we just wanted to check it out. Turns out the sale wasn't so much put on by the cereal company, but by the United Way charity. I think--and I have no proof to substantiate this--the cereal company donated the food to the charity and the charity sold the cereal as donations.

We picked up ten bags of cereal. Not bad. Next year, I'm thinking we'll not go to the event just to check it out, but we'll be one of those people with large boxes full of cereal making our way not to a truck or car, but to our van.