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 9 months ago
Legalized child labor….
stairsteppublishing 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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] 9 months ago
Teaching life skills for capitalism.
WF11 9 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 9 months ago
https://www.gocomics.Com/preteena/2002/08/28
asrialfeeple 9 months ago
Probably the correct one for today : https://www.gocomics.Com/preteena/2003/01/03
gcarlson 9 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.