bake sale
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The life-limiting condition will eventually leave him reliant on a wheelchair and in need of specialist home adaptations, so the family are raising money pound by pound, bake sale by bake sale.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
As evidence, there’s a bake sale where her treat is accused of having the dreaded “soggy bottom,” triggering an epically well-staged food fight.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
“It was easy to imagine her as your next-door neighbor or maybe a fellow parent at a bake sale at your kid’s school,” Roxborough says.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023
The beauty of the bake sale is that its power is not in how it's scaled, but rather in the thought and the feeling behind it.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
“So you’ll do it? Oh, I’m so glad. The bake sale committee really needs somebody like you.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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