Our GCDC was so disorganized

ToastieSimons · April 2012

Last year we went to one about 45 minutes south. They had great organization for the event (donors, check in lines, refreshments, giveaways), but the actual change was so messed up. They made us move like 3 times, we ended up under a tent and it had POURED the day before and they didn't tell us the change would be outside. DS was freezing, my jeans were soaking wet and we were all smushed under there.

This time the change was organized, except the lady had her kids scream/shriek when it was time to change your diapers...yes that went over well in a room full of babies. But the rest was so disorganized. They didn't have a great check-in area. They raffled off 5 baskets and noone told you to write your name on the tickets until the end. I figured they would just do it right after the change, but apparently not. They were in a narrow space and all the drinks, etc were at the back so you had to step over all the babies and mom's to get there and on the way out we got bombarded by local companies wanting to know if we would by their products.

hispenguin · April 2012

That's unfortunate

talitha712 · April 2012

Ours was disorganized too. Not quite as badly as yours, but there were raffle ticket issues, no space, snacks but no trash cans, and a few other things.

annb2009 · April 2012

That is so sad. The one we went to was actually pretty good. It was indoors and they had plenty of giveaways, a photographer, and fun stuff. It was a bit long though. Hope we break the record.

tokenhoser · April 2012

As an organizer, it was a really hard morning. This isn't what I'm trained to do. There wasn't any funding. There weren't any experts on hand. We did the best we could, and hopefully we learned how to make it better next year. The people with the 'MOST experience were doing it for the second time ever today, and a lot of us were doing it for the first.

My best advice is that if you think you could help make it better... please, volunteer next year. Make it better.

susangilchrist · April 2012

Our's wasn't really disorganized, but was pathetic. A tiny gift bag with mostly coupons in it, no door prizes, no music, no snacks. Nothing. It was a room for you to change your kid in, and then you could stick around for a CD swap if you wanted to. Crappy.

rboisvert · April 2012

Ours was cancelled. I live where Jillian's drawers has their retail store, very cloth friendly town and not enough people were interested. I was bummed I didn't have a baby to change last year I was really looking forward to it.

tokenhoser · April 2012

susangilchrist:
Our's wasn't really disorganized, but was pathetic. A tiny gift bag with mostly coupons in it, no door prizes, no music, no snacks. Nothing. It was a room for you to change your kid in, and then you could stick around for a CD swap if you wanted to. Crappy.

Yeah, I hate when I go to a free event organized by volunteers and they don't live up to my expectations. All the do is raise awareness about an issue. Such a waste of time!

/sarcasm

momtoo4 · April 2012

Ours was super organized with 15-20 raffels a cloth diaper consignment with over 300 items and 6 or 7 vendors. I think the final count was 61 that participated in the change.

susangilchrist · April 2012

tokenhoser:
susangilchrist:
Our's wasn't really disorganized, but was pathetic. A tiny gift bag with mostly coupons in it, no door prizes, no music, no snacks. Nothing. It was a room for you to change your kid in, and then you could stick around for a CD swap if you wanted to. Crappy.
Yeah, I hate when I go to a free event organized by volunteers and they don't live up to my expectations. All the do is raise awareness about an issue. Such a waste of time!
/sarcasm

Seriously? I am a huge CD supporter and am very active in spreading awareness in my community. I am more than aware that it's a volunteer program and that the point was to raise awareness. However, it was really talked up and I was lead to believe there were going to be activities for the kids, door prizes, etc. I heard from a ton of people that went to last year's GCDC that it was awesome. This was pretty much straight forward - no activities, etc. Had I known that ahead of time, I wouldn't have expected more.

JThomas221 · April 2012

Ours was pretty good. Nothing fancy, but fun. We had several local vendors and a photographer. There were several cool door prizes, one of which I won, and it was very organized. They only thing that sucked was that the location was one of two schools on the same road, very close to each other. There were no signs pointing to the GCDC so I (and several other people) went to the wrong school and I almost missed the big change.

Sorry your event wasn't very well organized. : (

gr8fulaa · April 2012

ToastieSimons:

This time the change was organized, except the lady had her kids scream/shriek when it was time to change your diapers...yes that went over well in a room full of babies. But the rest was so disorganized. They didn't have a great check-in area. They raffled off 5 baskets and noone told you to write your name on the tickets until the end. I figured they would just do it right after the change, but apparently not. They were in a narrow space and all the drinks, etc were at the back so you had to step over all the babies and mom's to get there and on the way out we got bombarded by local companies wanting to know if we would by their products.

This sounds familiar, are you in NE Ohio? It would be cool if I met a bumpie and didn't even know it!

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