Good Idea/Best Idea?

At camp this summer, we have the question, "good idea or best idea?" Counselors like to come to me and pose this before sharing their thoughts. And so I ask that question about my newest ridiculous idea...

This week at the camp store, I have been experimenting. I gave a few of the more popular counselors red shorts and visors, both of which haven't sold at all this summer, and asked them to promote these items. I wanted to see if we could sell some of the merchandise that is gathering dust on the shelves.

It worked like a charm! And so I took a picture of some of the counselors wearing camp store clothes, and I hung that up too. As I was hanging it up, several campers asked how much the photo would cost. I laughed and asked how much they would pay for a photo of counselors. $10 was the average bid. And that was around the time that the idea for counselor trading cards happened...

If I didn't already have enough to do, I decided to create staff trading cards. Program Director S and I went around and took photos of each staff member and gathered statistics like favorite food and future aspirations for the back. 24 hours later, I was in the dining hall, asking staff if they had been to the camp store lately, as I held up my deck of trading cards.

Absolute pandemonium.

You would have thought I brought out actual treasure. The kids surrounded me, begging for a look and demanding to know how much they would cost and when they could buy them. I told them $500 dollars and then S jumped in and said, "wait! We should have a sale." Cue campers cheering and screaming "Yeah!" So tomorrow, kids will be spending $2 for the set of 17 staff trading cards (including a fat bulldog puppy card as well).

I gave them a preview, allowing them to choose just one staff card to look at, despite begging and pleading to let them see, hold, "just touch" or get near the set. And tonight I will be printing like it's my job... Good idea or best idea? I'm not sure yet...