NJ Woman's Bake Sale Helps Make Mortgage Payment

[NJCher]

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey woman's bake sale has helped her forestall foreclosure. Angela Logan raised the $2,559.54 due Sunday under a federal program to help homeowners in financial trouble.

The divorced mother of three sons in Teaneck wanted to sell 100 ''mortgage apple cakes'' at $40 each. But as of Tuesday, she had more than 500 orders, including one from Hong Kong.

Teaneck's health officer notified Logan that it was against state law to use her house as a commercial kitchen.

But the Hilton Hasbrouck Heights has allowed Logan to cook in the hotel's kitchen, where she can produce up to 10 cakes at a time.Logan tells The Record of Bergen County she won't stop baking until people stop ordering.

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That's the entire story but if you want to see it at the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/22/us/AP-US-Foreclosure-Bake-Sale.html?_r=1


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[Tansy_Gold]

1. Recommending because

1. My daughter lives in NJ

and

2. Ms. Logan is MAKING SOMETHING. ;-)


She should be an example to our "economic advisers": when you start MAKING THINGS that people want and SELLING THEM TO PEOPLE WHO WANT THEM AND CAN BUY THEM, you make money.





Tansy Gold, who frequently does just that

[KittyWampus]

4. I'd like to tack this comment here- I lived hand to mouth for a while. Turned trash to treasure

to sell. Used clipped greens to make Xmas wreaths. Bag of clothing found on the street into quilts.

All required minimal investments and tools.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. I make half my (earned) income that way

I will never have a "retirement" like most of my friends; I will have to earn some portion of my living for the rest of my life.

I'm thankful that I come from a long line of do-it-yourselfers who put themselves through hard times with creativity and enthusiasm.

And never, ever turn down something someone is giving away free! You never know what you can make out of it.



TG, always makin' somethin' outta somethin' else

[pepperbear]

8. "angie's apple cakes." I like it!

[chill_wind]

2. I heard this on MSM yesterday. She got a lot of visibility with national media on this

It's wonderful in her case. I wish the MSM would cover in kind many more of the scenarios of what has happened to hundreds of thousands of other families whose fortunes didn't turn out so well.

[Skink]

3. Now if she could just get a small business loan.

[VWolf]

5. Only if she's "too big to fail" n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

7. another story

http://www.northjersey.com/bergen/Cake_baker_will_meet_her_mortgage.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. nice story.