We have girls sign sign bid cards because we turn them into the Greek Life office to keep track of were each girl goes. I also think, not completely sure, so that every NPC group can know if a PNM drops and the 1 yr. limit hasn't passed, she can't get another bid.

Having the girls write what size shirts they are is a great idea. Wish i would have thought of that.

We always had the person who preffed the girl guestimate the shirt size... it works fairly well, and only a few girls have to exchange for different sizes every year.

We always get a lot of extras. People can buy those to pass down family lines, for t-shirt exchanges at HQ conferences, etc. They always sell well, esp. since a lot of people don't want to give up their own shirts to pass down right away.

Rambling
 

JTIS, my sister has a tshirt (from delia's I think) that says something like:
"Ewe's not fat, Ewe's fluffy!" with a big sheep on it.

You have to order the shirts before you have any clue who is even rushing.

I wish that my school would order babydoll T's....or give girls the option of paying more for a babydoll, because I would love to have a shirt that I will actually want to wear instead of putting it in my 'ugly sorority shirts' pile.

No sign a bid card? I believe there is something in NPC green book about requireing something in writing as an agreement from the PNM and the chapter that she is joining and like a previous post said to keep track of who is signing with which chapter in case people drop.....

Is it in the green book? can someone verify?

You probably sign something else, like a sheet of paper...you've got to have it in writing. We had a song once talking about a "bid card" and we had no clue because that's what we did, signed it on a sheet of paper.

We have bid cards at my school too...we do the whole pref card thing too but I don't know of a school that doesn't use at least the pref card system.

Haha, sheet of paper... that's it. :D I knew of the rule that it had to be in writing but I didn't have a clue what these bid cards were...

I'm guessing pref cards are used to pref your top three (or two, or eight... however they do it at school!) after the last day of recruitment? Our entire system for that was computerized. (Sounds great when you think of how easy it is, sounds horrible when the comp crashes... which happened a couple years back!)

That's weird...when I joined my chapter we had to sign bid cards and all our NM's still do...maybe it's just a chapter to chapter thing, I dunno. You'd think though that we'd all do the same thing being at the same school and all...;)

Good luck with recruitment this year, I am SOOOO stoked to finally not have to actually participate in it during the 105 degree heat, instead I will get to hand out water bottles at the front door....yay for being an alum! ;)

Extra T-Shirts
 

Whenever we order our shirts, it seems we do similar to most of yall and order 5-10 extras just in case! We either sell them to alumnae or we bring them to our annual Regional Conference and they have a big t-shirt exchange. We'll swap for t-shirts/cups/sweatshirts from other schools!

Extra T-Shirts
 

My chapter always got extra bid day shirts in each size (medium always seemed the most popular); we gave the extras to girls who joined thru COR during the rest of the year.

Thank you for pointing this out. Everything my chapter buys is usually too big (I'm 5'2"). They asked for my sizes this year for recruitment (I am an advisor but I'm in the room with them everyday of recruitment) and I said the smallest size you can get. Then I asked where are you getting the pants from and they said Old Navy and I told them well I only fit into kids clothes at Old Navy (their pants seem to run big on me) and they laughed.

As such a small chapter that we are, we order enough shirts that we think will cover us for fall and spring recruitment, and we put Bid Day 2005-2006 on them, so we'll know what academic year they are from. That way we dont have to order new shirts for everybody every single semester. Most screen printing places have a minimum requirement of 24 (though I did recently find out that Prographics will do 12) and as small as we are, we cant afford to buy 24 shirts every single semester. But for the whole school year, it works out for us. Maybe if our chapter grows to an awesome size in the next few years, we'll change, but thats what we're doing for now.

Oh! And FYI - bluecotton.com has some of the cheapest screen printing prices I've seen, especially if youre only doing 1 or two ink colors - and if that isn't good enough, prographics garantees cheaper prices. The shirts we wanted this year were 10.99 each for 20 shirts at bluecotton. We told prographics about the quote, and prographics decided to do it for $10.50 a shirt (when their original quote was nearly $13.00 each)