What exactly does the school Principal tell our gullible children that make them run home, with a junk food catalog, and what they call a PRIZE PACKAGE sheet, that makes them think pushing junk food, like crack, is going to not only be fun but easy?
What is it about the look on my child’s dirty face that makes me go back on my word of NEVER participating in another fundraiser again?
Why does this shit have to be so hard? Why do ALL the schools sell at the same damn time? Why don’t they sell healthy shit and give good prizes? Is that too much to ask?
I wonder if our school would accept a monetary donation instead of student participation. Would that make my child feel like a looser?
Fundraiser time has just come to an end at the Lovin, Laughin, Livin household. Thank Gawd. We did the best we could, considering ALL our neighbors kids were selling the same shit.
I don’t sell to my family, very often, because collecting money from them is like trying to collect money from a dead-beat-dad. So pushing crack supporting our school’s fundraiser had to happen at work.
Normally that wouldn’t be a problem because all us mom’s stick together and buy from eachother. Its an unspoken mom rule. Well, the week Drama Queen brought hers to me we had JUST received our fundraiser purchases from another mom in the office. Guess what DQ was selling? Yup, the same shit goodies the other mom just sold us. Niiice. Do you know how hard it was to convince these people that they need to have another 4 pounds of frozen cookie dough in their freezer?
And then you get the people who Oops! forget to pay. They suck. So that means mom is stuck writing a check for almost $200 and now must try to collect to reconcile the bank book.
The result?
$26 still not collected
5 boxes of frozen items to separate
4 pounds of frozen cookie dough in the freezer
2 slight attitude adjustments made between Mister and I
1 extra apple cheese cake still unclaimed
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1 happy child who gets to attend a DJ party at school and gets to go to lunch in a limousine is priceless.
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March 30, 2007 at 9:34pm
The "Mind"
I don’t do fundraisers at the school. Nope, no more. They sell useless shit. I keep telling them, because Michigan has a 10 cent per can deposit, to just ask the kids to bring in cans. We’d be happy to comply with that because we LOATHE returning bottles and cans.
Then again, they’d all be beer cans and that might not look so good huh? LMAO!
We just ended up tossing our cheesecake we bought from DQ. It got wet in the cooler in Vegas and we weren’t in the mood to experiment eating it. No big deal, it helped bring a smile to her face and that is what it was all about.
March 30, 2007 at 10:02pm
Carrie
Frozen stuff? Really? When I was a kid we sold calendars and christmas cards. Oh and occaionally those big candy bars that broke into four pieces. I will buy anything from a kid. It is sad really. I just can’t say no. I even got stopped for girl scout cookies and bought 2 boxes. That was over a month ago and they are still sitting there.
March 30, 2007 at 10:31pm
Cece
Oh Mind, I wish we would’ve left it in my freezer & shipped it w/your tamales (which I’m working on shipping lol)
Carrie, I’ve got a bucket of pizza’s that haven’t been sold (I mean paid for), interested? LMAO
March 30, 2007 at 10:46pm
Oh, The Joys
When you figure out how to get out of it, let me know.
March 30, 2007 at 11:07pm
mom of 2
I HATE fundraisers!! The stuff our kids had to sell this year was complete crap and so were the prizes!! Good luck with the money collecting!
March 31, 2007 at 12:23am
Chelle
Yeah….once up on a time the kids used to actually go out selling this stuff. Now….well, around here anyway, parents take the forms to work and get other workers to buy. UGH…kinda defeats the whole purpose of kids winning a prize for most items sold!! I can’[t stand fundraisers…..I wish they would just accept a monetary gift and call it done!! I would be a much happier parent..lol
March 31, 2007 at 5:23am
Cece
Joys, you’ll be the 1st person I call when I figure it out.
Mo2, the first year was such CRAP they gave them. I was very pissed.
Chelle, I remember those days. I wish they’d give the kids a box of candy to sell instead.
March 31, 2007 at 10:25pm
Samantha_K
Three kids from my youth group came in toting those catalogs a few weeks ago…all three with the same one of course, b/c they go to the same school. Me and the other two teachers in charge of our group were trying to pick out the cheapest things possible….but everything is so outrageously priced, and the chocolate always tastes a little chalky…so should it be called chalk-o-late??
April 2, 2007 at 1:18am
Webmiztris
the limo thing sounds weird to me….who decided a limo ride would be something a kid would be interested in? if you can’t drink, limos aren’t even FUN. LOL
April 2, 2007 at 2:12am
Lindsey
That is a lot of $$ and a lot of crap, but a ride in a limo sounds fun–too bad you don’t get to go on the ride too since you did all of the work! I’m sure I could take come of that cookie dough off your hands for you. I’ll give you my address and you can just send some my way
April 2, 2007 at 7:46pm
Sara
Yeah, you forgot the 18—err 16 individually packaged brownies now residing in my fridge. At least Chad like them too. I had to get them cut up and back to a frozen state before I ate them all at once!
April 2, 2007 at 8:08pm
Ms.L
I allllways fell for that big scam!
One year I bought 6 f-in magazine subscriptions just so my son would look good and could claim some stupid prize!!
Grrrr me!
April 3, 2007 at 6:00am
Christina
I just had this same crappy experience. My hubby told my son he could do it and guess who did most of the work?