Tupperware Fund Raiser, Ugh!

our school is in a poorer district/working class of town (but we have a great principal!) and we have fund raisers usually just before christmas. a couple of years it was cookie dough, the last two years, however, its been christmas cards, wrap and gifts. at least they are somewhat useful! doesnt your parent board have any other ideas besides tupperware? you are right, you can only use so much!

I think you did the right thing! I like that idea. Its something like what my parents did for me. They wouldn't always let me go door to door, especially after 9-11 (I'm 21 now and I'm going to be having my first child soon) so they said that they would do something special for me. And its something I remember better than the other things I 'won' on the fundraisers! My mom wouldnt let me do the fundraisers as a kid, she would, but only in my grandmothers neighborhood, where my pawpaw could sit on the front porch and keep an eye on me. But she wouldnt take me to other neighborhoods. And I lived, lol. I think this will be a fonder memory for them as they get older, especially when they start having their little ones, they'll look back and 'remember when'. I wish I'd be able to send my child(ren) to a private school, I HATED going to one as a kid, but I got a much better education there than I know I would have in the public school system!

A Tupperware fundraiser? It sounds like the Home Interiors Candle fundraiser that my son's old school did. The head of the PTA that organized the fund raiser was the one selling the stuff. Gee I wonder why she picked that one. I bet someone who sells Tupperware was in charge of that fund raiser.

Luckily we don't have there fund raisers here in Sweden! I think it's so unfair to those with a tight budget when stuff like this comes up! I've sold Tupperware for years and have more than I can use - the same for every one around me! I wouldn't sell the stuff!

it is another and modified way of squeezing the parents!! and they should be punished under child labour laws!!

I know exactly how you feel! My kids are constantly coming home with fund raising items, and it's usually candy bars! What? $1 for these candy bars when you can go to the grocery store and buy them for much less than that. And as you mentioned, people just don't have the money in this economy. I honestly think the schools should look elsewhere for raising money. I have already mentioned that there are boxtops from kellogg's and Campbell Soup Labels, and private citizens are more than welcome to donate if they wish. I know many schools are closing, but right now in this economy, families just don't have the extra income for these door to door fundraisers.

Hi Sassy, I'm with you on this one! My son just started school this year and we've already had to deal with about 10 fundraisers! This month they sent home TWO and both had to be back on the same day, one was Avon, and that went well... It bothers me because as a work from home family, we don't have offices to go to and plunk the catalogs down in the conference room so we have to rely on neighbors, friends, family... all of which have children of their own, also in school, also bringing home fundraisers! It's frustrating! I think it's unfair for the school to exclude children from trips. What if the family sold $299 ?? Would the child be left behind because they didn't sell $300??? That's mean and inappropriate. Perhaps calling the school and speaking to the principal would lead to other alternative? Suggesting a reduced cost to include all children on the trip? Say, $10/15 cash to the school to offset the cost of extra children on the trip?