Hated school fundraisers. Parents, family, and fellow workers always get stuck with stuff they don’t want. The last time I let a school car wash wash my car, it ruined the paint. I have no idea what they used.
Luckily I only had to do this once, in 6th grade. I forget what we were trying to raise money for but I had to sell these very pretty candles. I wasn’t able to sell any though they really were nice candles but shlepping them from door to door was annoying. Luckily I didn’t have too many to sell and my mother sold them at work.
We did our daughters’ fundraisers exactly once. Friends had ordered some cashews & snacks, which never came in until months later. After that fiasco, I told my daughters they had my permission not to participate in fundraisers again.
I’m glad to say I never had to do any fundraising activities in school (1960’s) but my brother did a few years later and I know my parents ended up with at least 3 of these crazy “Purple Paper Eater” wastebaskets. And as Wren Fahel mentions in an earlier comment, I know that when we’ve agreed to buy things from neighbor kids (cookie dough or tupperware-like containers being good examples) it’s months before you ever see the items! Anymore I limit my fundraiser purchases to Girl Scout cookies, at tables set up at the local grocery stores (and that way I can start eating them immediately!).
Grumpy Old Guy 12 months ago
Legalized child labor….
stairsteppublishing 12 months ago
Hated school fundraisers. Parents, family, and fellow workers always get stuck with stuff they don’t want. The last time I let a school car wash wash my car, it ruined the paint. I have no idea what they used.
Macushlalondra 12 months ago
Luckily I only had to do this once, in 6th grade. I forget what we were trying to raise money for but I had to sell these very pretty candles. I wasn’t able to sell any though they really were nice candles but shlepping them from door to door was annoying. Luckily I didn’t have too many to sell and my mother sold them at work.
Wren Fahel 12 months ago
We did our daughters’ fundraisers exactly once. Friends had ordered some cashews & snacks, which never came in until months later. After that fiasco, I told my daughters they had my permission not to participate in fundraisers again.
The Pro from Dover 12 months ago
Being a shill never ends. Even the day you die. Being a mortician is a job that never ends until they end.
[Unnamed Reader - bf182b] 12 months ago
Teaching life skills for capitalism.
WF11 12 months ago
I’m glad to say I never had to do any fundraising activities in school (1960’s) but my brother did a few years later and I know my parents ended up with at least 3 of these crazy “Purple Paper Eater” wastebaskets. And as Wren Fahel mentions in an earlier comment, I know that when we’ve agreed to buy things from neighbor kids (cookie dough or tupperware-like containers being good examples) it’s months before you ever see the items! Anymore I limit my fundraiser purchases to Girl Scout cookies, at tables set up at the local grocery stores (and that way I can start eating them immediately!).
asrialfeeple 12 months ago
https://www.gocomics.Com/preteena/2002/08/28
asrialfeeple 12 months ago
Probably the correct one for today : https://www.gocomics.Com/preteena/2003/01/03
gcarlson 12 months ago
It seems to me 5th grade is when my brain really bloomed, and in adult life those are the kids I’m most comfortable with.