Activities Committee idea

It's pretty standard procedure to announce upcoming events in our local church congregation by passing out a flyer two or three weeks before the event so people can "save the date", communicate the event to others in their household, and have all the pertinent data in writing so they don't have to try to remember what "Brother So-and-so said". It had been the practice to use a half sheet of paper (in other words 8.5 x 5.5 inches) for this flyer as it could then be stuffed into our Sunday programs which are standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper folded in half.

When we were called to work on the Activities Committee I experimented with a smaller format, namely 5.5 x 4.25, a quarter sheet. The Scottish blood in me calculated that not only could we get by with half the amount of paper (which the church would probably buy for us) but also half the ink (which we'd have to buy ourselves if we printed the flyers at home). It turned out that we could almost always put everything necessary on a quarter sheet and it would still be very readable. And it turned out that people actually appreciated the smaller notes as they didn't take up as much room on their refrigerators. And that got me thinking about the next stage - how about printing the notices on Post-It pads!

We're still trying to make the economics work out as there is a 10 pad minimum for most companies (100 pad for many) with 50 page pads, in other words 500 sheets. We generally need about half that. But with a big event like out upcoming 40th Anniversary party we might need twice that number. Costs range from $1.50 a pad to $5. We're probably looking at something about this size (4 in x 3 in):

This sample is all blurry because I've enlarged the small image they attached to the quote.