Now that my kids are playing high school sports, they also now need to do fundraising. My oldest has to sell coupon booklets. Not just a couple but about 25 five of them. The difficulty I find with these is that all the grade level teams are selling them. The coupons are only good for our part of town. There are 50-60 kids selling them which means that there are about 1200 coupon books trying to be sold.
Then my youngest’s coaches talked about selling candy. I guess I just assumed it would be chocolate candy bars. But it isn’t. It is a box of random things. Things for $1 each. (See the picture) I am not sure that I have ever seen anything like this before as a fundraiser. I have seen other schools that just have a link to do a monetary donation. Why can’t we just do that? Then people can get a receipt for their donation and use it towards their taxable donations. I hate fundraising. I would just rather them tell me how much it costs to play and pay for it. Especially, when everyone else is doing the same thing! I just feel that we are just exhanging money with each other to support our kids' activities. I am not outgoing enough to ask for donations. It is not in my comfort zone. But I will try.
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Teri Keys
3/18/2022 10:15:38 pm
Larry would say the same thing...'how much does the candy cost, we'll just pay for it'...and honestly a few times we did just that.
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Katie Krzos
3/19/2022 08:42:38 am
My mom would buy every Girl Scout cookie box so it was done and over with!! Fundraising is toughest on the parents, they are the ones doing all the work for sure!!
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EugeniaKouts
3/20/2022 12:17:11 am
I agree with you! Give me a total amount and don't make my kid (me) sell anything! It's just one more thing on the To-Do list that won't get done!
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Sara T.
3/22/2022 11:08:48 pm
OMG...I am the same way! I hate having to sell stuff...especially when it is low quality stuff. Here's hoping you have lots of kind neighbors for those coupon books. Next time I see you I'm gonna hit you up vending machine style for a Butterfinger!
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