For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 16, 2012

Better pay for those two as well, Mike. (I would’ve thought there’d be an even 50 in there.)

You owe yourself $10, Mike…so far, that is.

Mike lost out on money, but kids will be kids.

Michael, you are not a great sales rep!

Just make it a tax write off.

back in the day I sold CampFire candy and my mom ended up buying just about every bar………..needless to say I am NOT a good salesman, but then when my kids had to sell stuff for the school I had a house full of candles I bought, so it all evens out.

He still has too pay for them.

In today’s world, I would not allow my child to go door-to-door to sale candy, for the school, band, scouts, etc. If they were to send stuff home unannounced, I’d send it back to them and explain that I pay over 5 grand in property taxes and they should learn to live within their means, period. It’s bad enough having to buy only school brand uniforms, gym clothes, pay lab fees, sports participation fees, etc, then they want to put the kids to work in outside sales????

This isn’t Elly’s fault. Michael wasn’t paying attention when they discussed this at school. Or he doesn’t have any sense. Really, he thought they were his?@gmartin – LOL!

I really hate it when the relatives’ kids hit me up to buy something for any group. With my kids, I tell them and the group no sale – i usually write a check for the profit on a box. It should be illegal to put kids out selling fundraising items.

if he had a brain he’d be dangerous

“…they told me my idea of Girl Scouting wasn’t their idea of Girl Scouting.” So you went scouting for girls instead? :J

Take the cost of each bar he eats out of his allowance…that should put a reality check on his appetite. Teach him some fundamentals of economics, too. :)

I never see kids doing door-to-door fundraising on their own — when they come to the door there’s always a watchful adult hovering close by. We realize dangers now that we might not have a generation or two ago, which is when this strip is set.

How many is Mom going to eat?

It’s only the first day and he’s already in the hole before he’s even gotten started!

;-)

Make that it’s only Michael’s first day and already Elly is in the hole before he’s even gotten started!!!!!

:-D

The government keeps complaining they don’t have the funds for schools but they sure do have the funds to pay their hefty paychecks. They should cut their pay and fund the schools like they should instead of cutting education funding. When I was a kid in school, we never had to go around selling stuff. The only time I went around doing that was when I was in the girl scouts. Schools shouldn’t be selling anything. It’s time the politicians got off their duffs and did their jobs like they are supposed to, instead of treating it like a handout.

This is what happened in One Big Happy when the kids sold chocolate bars for school. I sold candy bars for my Christian school in ’75. My mother bought almost all of them. It was because we lived out in the country and it was hard going door to door selling them.

WAY back in the day we kids sold stuff door to door. (It didn’t seem to be as dangerous in the 40’s and ’50’s.) Once myp. e. teacher said we’d get an A+ if we sold at least one magazine subscription. (Can you imagine that happening TODAY?) I was a lousy salesperson, so it ended up with my parents buying a subscription to the cheapest magazine on the list. I recall that it was called “The Pathfinder.” I found a “Pathfinder News Magazine” referred to on Google. It was kind of a lame rag, so we didn’t renew it. But they kept sending us free issues for a long time – hope sprang eternal.http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37043

Lol that’s me

The funny thing is I know of a real deal like this. Long story short the mother had to pay for 2 case of candy bars.