Kids' fundraising

[wilbret]

All the time -



Once I found out my donation stayed 100% w/ the troop locally, that is what I started doing.

Our Pack and Troop have a buyout option. I’d say 90% elect to just write a check. I hate fundraisers. We just move money back and forth.

buy my cookies
Buy my popcorn
Buy my discount card (x2)
Buy my poinsettias
Buy my wrapping paper
Buy my donuts
Buy my pine straw
Subscribe to my magazines
Donate for my fun run
Buy my raffle tickets
Buy cookie dough
Buy my candles

Those are actual fundraisers in the past year

 

[low-key]

I just hated them at work, it seemed every mom was sale something for her kids (the men just refuse to do it, lol) if the women kind of flirted with me, I would buy (lol, the kids will never know all the sacrifices mom made for them)

 

[disneychrista]

I just hated them at work, it seemed every mom was sailing something for her kids (the men just refuse to do it, lol) if the women kind of flirted with me, I would buy (lol, the kids will never know all the sacrifices mom made for them)

I have a blanket rule. I don't buy from anyone. If you buy from one you have to buy from them all. So my rule works for me. Women flirting with me doesn't work either.

I will say though my dad sold more Girl Scout Cookies through work than I did going door to door.

 

[marthachick]

DS was in scouts for 12 years. I hated popcorn sales passionately. It was a rip off. People would pay $30 for a tiny tin of popcorn worth about $2.50. The leaders would say ‘ but it’s for a good cause’. And I would say yeah but it’s MY good cause. I hated sales.

 

[AndreaDM]

This is an interesting post because I was in a local discount/buyout store a few months ago. They had pallets of the boxes of fundraising candy bars cheap, like less than $20 for 100. Im guessing a lot of school fundraisers didn’t happen in the spring when schools shut down so the candy companies had to unload the product. I did not buy anything but it was tempting, oh how I loved the caramello bars we sold for choir back in the 80’s, and yes, I too had to come up with money to cover what I ate!

 

[soccerdad72]

A couple years ago, our boys' high school made the bold decision to stop all individual team/club fundraising. Instead, they have one day that they heavily push to all students/parents/alumni/local businesses that they simply call the "Big Give". One day, give what you can, and all the proceeds go toward funding all the extra expenses of clubs and sports teams. This year they raised $260,000 in one day.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

A couple years ago, our boys' high school made the bold decision to stop all individual team/club fundraising. Instead, they have one day that they heavily push to all students/parents/alumni/local businesses that they simply call the "Big Give". One day, give what you can, and all the proceeds go toward funding all the extra expenses of clubs and sports teams. This year they raised $260,000 in one day.

Our local elementary schools switched to a walk-a-thon a few years ago instead of wrapping paper sales. It was awesome - kids hit up Grandma for a check, DH and I donated some, end of story.

The next year, the PTA announced that they were going to bring back the wrapping paper sales in addition to the walk-a-thon because "some people said they really missed selling it." That went over like a ton of bricks and it was never mentioned again.


Little kid's school did a fundraiser last year where they had the kids collect dimes all school year. That worked really well, also. I don't remember how much they raised but it was soooo easy, just put out a jar and everytime someone got a dime in change they dropped it in.