Have you ever seen this:
Yeah.... that's about how I feel.Thus endeth the bitching for today.
How about you? Do you enjoy fund raisers? Have you flown a bomber? Were you in the armed services? Would you like to buy a magazine?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Not Fun(d) Raiser
I hate school fun-raisers. HATE them. I hate the junk they sell, I hate asking family and co-workers to part with hard earned cash. And I hate the crap that kids "win" for selling stuff. The Ladies came home with Magazine Sales stuff. And Gert has her HEART set on the prize for selling 6 magazines - some dorky remote that overrules a tv's real remote. We all know it's CRAP and won' last for more than a NANO second. ARGH!!!!!!!!!! And then even if we hit up the grandparents and such we STILL have to divide it by the two girls. ARGH... I would so much rather just have someone send the PTA a check for $10 then making them feel pressure to get something they don't really want.
Have you ever seen this:
Yeah.... that's about how I feel.
Thus endeth the bitching for today.
How about you? Do you enjoy fund raisers? Have you flown a bomber? Were you in the armed services? Would you like to buy a magazine?
Have you ever seen this:
Yeah.... that's about how I feel.Thus endeth the bitching for today.
How about you? Do you enjoy fund raisers? Have you flown a bomber? Were you in the armed services? Would you like to buy a magazine?
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We don't participate. We contribute in many ways, but that's not one of them.
Check with the school about donations. The kids' old school used to do the magazine drive - it was the one BIG fundraiser for the school. We did it because it is a private school and does not get the federal funds public schools get. Anyway, my point is (and I *do* have one!) at their school, a donation of $10 was the equivalent to one magazine subscription. We used to write two $50 checks to the school and each kid reached the "5 magazine level" and got the school shirt that came with it.
With 4 kids coming home selling stuff, they know better than to even ask.
But the youngest of the older 3 still gets sucked in by those "prize rallys" they have to get the kids all pumped up. I get so mad!!! I go and but my kids a "prize" instead of participating in the fundraiser sometimes if it gets ugly.
Hate hate hate fundraisers - my first taste of this was at kindy this year. It was never-ending. "To keep our fees low" Hah. The fees were pretty darn high!
I envy people who say they don't participate. I want to be just like you. Teach me how.
I'd be no jolly good at homeschooling my kids, but heck, here's one attractive point.
Never flown a bomber, but loved your little picture. True.
The thing I hate more than anything is how at our school they have an assembly to pump the kids up to go push this CRAP on other people. As if sending it home with them is not bad enough, they have to WASTE 2 hours out of their day, too!
I pretty much have my kids trained. They bring the envelope home and put it in the fire starter box- almost without arguing.
However, there is so much CRAP I would trim from the school so that they wouldn't HAVE to HAVE fund raisers. (And by the way, I would cut the grown up CRAP out of the government, too.)
Must stop typing now and go check my blood pressure....
OMG, I know, that stuff is crap. I have a friend who just 'buys' her child the "prize" so she doesn't have to deal w/ the crap and doesn't have to hear her kid whine about now winning the "awesome prize" (that costs $4 in the end...but the cost to 'win' it is like $300.....)
Oh you know I hate fundraisers. :P I almost did a dance of joy at last week's PTA meeting when they announced that they'd raised enough money with the big fall fundraiser that they aren't going to do the previously scheduled spring fundraiser - WOO-HOO!
Now we just have to survive the book fair and carnival and I think we're home free for the rest of kindergarten.
I love that bomber bake sale graphic!!!
I too do not like them, and we just got our FIRST one (we homeschool) and it's actually not for the school, but raising money for St. Jude's hospital...
and BTW, the armed forces do have bake sales and fund raisers for things like flak jackets to wear in combat zones (military doesn't supply them, or if they do they're the really out of date ones). That's what I learned this past week.
Yet...millions go to companies and the CEOs spend it on "bonuses" or something. Grrrr.
I'd much rather just write a check than do a fund raiser.
I hate, Hate, HATE them!!
My son started kindergarten this year. At about the same time Ike desimated our Galveston neighbors to the South, Oldest was bringing home a DVD about getting all excited to run laps for his school (I did a post about it).
He was so young and innocent, he just wanted to "be a winner." Broke my heart. Mama why can't we get 7 sponsors so I can stand up in front of the class?
Are you kidding me?!
And made me want to hurl things at the principal. We should have been raising money for the kids that lost their entire school, not raising money for a school where any one parent could write a check for anything they could possibly need.
Sorry! This stuff chaps my hide.
As a general rule - I don't do fundraisers...meaning that I dont' buy crap from them. The only things I do donate to are those things that the money earned stays at our school i.e. walkathons, art shows, silent auctions.
We do all the work, and someone else makes the profit.
The only ones I ever do, are the Avon ones. Cause then the kids are selling something I want!
I always hate fundraisers when my kids were in school. I totally agree with you, its all JUNK! I'd rather just make a donation for the year and be done with it!
I do not agree with schools selling that junk. I would rather donate money than all the competive selling that goes on.
We are a MILITARY Family. I have worked to many fundraisers for soliders and families. We have sold it all, bake it all and just plain begged on fundraising.
I have always hated those awful fundraisers. A person can only buy some much wrapping paper and order so many mag subscriptions. You know it's bad when your co-workers avoid you because you have an order form lying on your desk. I'm with you, I would rather give the school a direct donation.
I feel your pain. It is sad how they get the kids assembled and then show them all the 'cool' stuff they can win. My girls school sales mags every year. I don't do it anymore though.
With ya 100%. I flat out refuse. I don't sell cookie dough that lasts 27 months in the freezer, I don't sell extra thick expensive wrapping paper. Our current one is Jump rope for heart. That one, I get. Encouraging kids to be active and have fun helping others. What I H.A.T.E. is that they focus on the fundraising prizes more than anything. I think it's just wrong.
As a teacher, I DETEST the fundraisers. From the stupid convo to kick it off, to having to gather all the orders, then pass out the crapalicious prizes. We do a walkathon in the spring, which is low cost (DJ and some decent prizes--stuff with the school logo on them) and they just take donations. So much easier than the fall crapfest.
I don't think I would hate (as a customer) a magazine drive, and I don't mind buying cookie dough, even though it's over priced.
Don't like them at all. Never did. I always felt so bad for my kids because they were sure they were going to get the top prize, and I watched hearts break over and over.
I do however, buy anything that a child comes to the door selling.It's been years since my kids had to do the same, so I buy gift wrap, cookie dough, magazines, candy, pepperoni sticks.
Which reminds me that Bruce bought a roll of wrapping paper last fall for $10.00 (he gave her cash) and we NEVER GOT THE WRAPPING PAPER...
I have been the PTO president at my boy's schools for two years. Fundraisers are a necessary evil because schools don't get money they need for the basics like paper, pencils, etc..., but they are CRAP!!! I never let my boys sell either. I always write a check for $20 to the school and offer my boys a simple reward.
It is a giant pain in the butt!!
I did a lot of fundraising growing up as I earned most of my way for many Girl Scout and band trips. In one way, they were good, as I was earning the money for the trips myself. In another, I imagine there would have been better ways to do it (doing odd jobs for cash) that would have been better and had the same point.
But for something like a general school fundraiser, I never was into that kind of thing. Ugh.
I've decided not to participate in the cheesy fundraisers any longer; I am donating directly to the school. That way the school gets 100% of the money instead of 10 -15%. I think more PTAs should write this as an option on those fundraiser fliers!
I've become an enthusiastic participant since I left grade school (I'm now in college), but I anticipate this petering out by the time I actually have kids in a school to support.
For now I buy Girl Scout cookies from the girl I nanny for. That's sort of the same thing...right?
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