Fundraisers!!! Who else hates these awful fundraisers?

Wow, that sounds like a lot! Luckily, my son's school only does one big fundraiser in the beginning of the year, so it's not so bad.

Yes, I completley agree with you! Even last year with my oldest just starting junior kindergarten they had him bringing home stuff! The worst was the expensive wrapping paper! People were like sure I'll buy some, then they see the prices and couldn't help but get a little silent and lose all eagerness and end up buying one roll ( and that was grammy). The worst about these ones is that nothing of the proceeds are going to anything croncrete for him! No school trip or special day, I'm not even sure what it was going toward.

hi! I think such kind of fundraising is not a common practice here in our country specially to kids at school. But we also do fundraising..like now, I'm working on one "sacrificial dinner" it's our fundraising activity for scholarship program.BUT we don't pressure anyone to buy tickets,it's annoying I know..I would not want that happen to me too. Anyways, writing the school like other respondent suggested is a good idea,or if you feel guilty ask the school to just send you one fundraising stuff instead of giving 2 of your kids..

I have a love/hate for them. I love doing like the first one of the year but after the 7th one, I am burned out. If the school would only do candy bars it would be great. No they have to do magazines, christmas junk, Little Ceaser's Pizza, shoe strings, pizza cards which are $10 a piece, and market day. I have 3 kids in school. I can't do all 3 and I am lucky. My kids usually forget to give me order forms. Great topic. I did one like this too. I guess I missed yours. Sorry!

i had to do this in high school-to raise money for field trips.i hated it-you almost always got stuck with the whole box,and sometimes they even made you pre-pay for the box-then it's a complete loss if you don't sell them. the only thing that saved me most times,was my grandmother's friends who had a sweet tooth. good idea on paper,but bad idea in general.

i know how u feel i have 4 kids ,the school allways sent home 4 of everything to be sold or bought.how are u going to sell that amount of things

I t seems like our kids school is fundraising constantly. Most of the time they don't participate unless it is something that they want to do.Even then they don't sell much of the stuff since our family is not in the area and they are not to go door to door here either. I refused to let them sell the crazily priced wrapping paper. If it's something like that I just send it back to school the next day with a note saying they won't be participating. I would be more into the fundraising if it was for a class trip or something like that. My daughter is in brownies and they sell cookies twice a year. The money they raise goes towards a camping trip, so I'm fine with it. We have no problem selling a ton ofv them. I take her around the block to our neighbors and my boyfriend takes some to work and they are gone in no time.

I know how you feel. My oldest has been doing it ever since she started school. The first few times she either sold one item or didn't do it at all. Well the past two years, she's been able to sell 25 items each time. I haven't bought anything not because I don't want to, just because it falls around a time when I can't afford to. So next school year, I will have two kids in school. I don't think I will be taking them out to do this. Mostly because of the fighting over who sells the most, and when someone buys something who's form does it go on. The last fundraiser my daughter's school had was for a good cause it was for the American Heart Association. My daughter's goal was to raise 50 dollars to get a T-shirt and to help. By the time she was done, she raised 45, so I put 5 in to get her to the 50 mark. This one didn't bother me, because my dad suffers from heart problems. One part of his heart is bigger than the other part. So he goes to a heart doctor a lot. So this meant a lot to me personally. When I was in school we sold candy, not that expensive either. We made a lot of money, now it's hard to do that with so many people complaining. Honestly I don't see myself paying 8 bucks for wrapping paper when I can go elsewhere and pay 2 bucks for the same amount of paper. One good thing they don't have these fundraiser's all the time, it's just once a year and it's right before Thanksgiving. Just wish that every school in a state would come up with something different so people wouldn't get burnt out on it.

yap!!I agree with you,schools are that are forcing the kids to sell and raise funds for their own is really irritating.You're sending your kids to school because you wanted them to learn about life and be proffesionals someday....but sometimes schools asks for parents some help for the maintenance of the school..for me it's better to do solicitations than make kids sell products that are so expensive that thier usual prize..

Kind of a shame that the government that is SUPPOSED to pay for public schooling doesn't, isn't it? Why not send the fundraiser things to work with your spouse, or take it to work yourself?

I stopped my children from selling the fundraisers. seems like it gets more costly every year and the stuff isn't all that great! I understand its for items for school, but it turned out from my large family and friends, they too got sick of helping out, and it was only 2 of us spending alot of money to get them that prize they wanted. so we stopped it. you can refuse to sell it, just let the school know that you don't want your child(ren) selling any fundraisers and they will respect that, I did...5 kids sellling the same thing at the same time was costly like I said, Had to put a stop to it. But when they get into the 11 and 12th grade, do it for it helps with their senior trip. less you need to come up with for it

Hello misheleen73; I dont hate fundrasiers but I have a website that I use for fundraisers. That website is http://www.michaelsdream.giftswithtlc.com I do very well making money for what I start the fundrasers for and I split the profit for the fundraisers 50/50 for the items we sale for a 2 weeks span. It has over 7000 Unigue gifts for all ages and holidays special occasions and what other times of the year there are. Thank You mikec86

ha ha. Happens all the time. I sometimes top up the fund myself too. But I look it differently. Cos most of these stuff are quite cheap. And it just doing the kids a favor. But seriuosly I do hope that the schools will stop it. They live on a government budget, where I am, so is there a need to raise more funds?

Thankfully my children are all grown up and working, but I remember well the school fundraiser, or should I say begging. Schools seem to think parents have nothing better to do other than sell stuff for them. If they want to fund raise they should get a stall on the local market or go door knocking themselves. It would be much more honest to simply ask for a donation, or better still manage their affairs better so that they don't need to fund raise.

I completely understand how you feel about selling things but I would like to make a suggestion about fundraising that you may want to suggest to your schools. I create designs for t-shirts, coffee mugs, buttons, etc. You may want to suggest to the school that I'd be happy to design something for them for free and they can offer the items online to those who wish to buy and resell the items for fundraising. I will even contribute 20% of the profits after the cost of the site itself, of course, which is only $14 a month. Anyway, if anyone is interested, please add yourself to my friends group and then send me a private email about it. Again, I would do the design for free, so it wouldn't cost the school anything and this way the kids could buy t-shirts, etc. and support the school at the same time.

I generally sell greeting cards once a year for WHO ( world health organisation ). All money which earn through seven days of hard work goes to charity . Money is used for vacination and medicines of poor small children . Anyway these kind of fundraisers cannot be asked to done under some pressure , if a person wants to do it from his/her soul than it's okay .

my dear friend, there is no need for u to be so angry , wht ever you do its not going to change i think , by loosing your anger you are simply reducing your precious life , try to see the positive side of the program , might be its helping some kid who is not forunate as your kid, but obvioualy if there is too much of that stuff no body can stand , try speaking to other parents also and race the things in he parents teachers meeting , obviously they have to take a decision . if they didnt head tell them that the teachers and principal of the school college or what ever should take part in this , let them also know the pain of it , good luck, i hope i didnt make it too bore