Last night, my wife went to a fundraiser for a group that wants to start a charter school for homeless kids. It was held at a not-so-great casino south of LA. She went on the early side to say hello to the people she needed to say hello to, then head home as she wasn't (and still isn't) feeling that great.
So, she comes hoem and tells me and the HB about it. Mostly people there to play poker (the poker tournament was the draw, no pun intended) and there wasn't much bidding going on for the silent auction items. As she goes through them, I realize that some of these items would go for nearly twice as much at the HB's school's auction. I mention this to her, and, for a change, she agrees with me and she heads on back after dinner.
Later in the evening she said that the celebrity quotient went up with a couple of spouses embarrasing their more famous better halves. But, the bids on the silent auction items were still pretty low, so she kept the bids up. No word yet as to whether she got any of them.
Something feels a bit weird about this philanthropic black market. It's not like we'd be putting the stuf of eBay for our own profit, but it does seem odd that we could get things relatively cheap at one fundraising auction and get the double write-off by donating it to another.
Oh well. I don't make the rules, I just bend them.
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