Do you remember having to sell those chocolate bars and those candles etc in school when you were a kid?

I'll take 76 of them please. Assorted but at least 40 caramel

I don’t like those money drives that schools and other organizations are so fond of doing.

The premise is .. we need money so buy something from me so I can have money.

It’s really no better than begging. I won’t allow my children to participate in it. The schools receive funding and if a fee must be paid for an activity I’ll consider it’s value to my child and pay or not pay for them to participate but what I will not do is ask them to beg in the name of the school and their education.

Not really. I'm pretty sure the parents, just like mine, were the ones who actually sold the chocolates. As soon as I got into the working world, many of the parents at my job were selling chocolates as well as raffle tickets for the school carnivals. I remember it was always one kid who would somehow sell everything. The class or grade who sold the least would be critized over the PA system.

Never had to do that, but we did have to sell Girlscout cookies. I hated it too.

I'm now curious what your next post will be because so far you've posted the Cher song I sang in the shower and here you are talking about selling things for schools which was my next train of thought during that same shower.

Just to say something relevant to the topic, I got a shoe phone for my prize

Yeah, did that when I was a kid and was competing with every other kid in the neighborhood. It was for an after school program in grade school. Ugh.

I didn't make my kids do that. I was shocked when my son joined the youth football program and the coaches were hard selling (if I recall) cookie dough and I was like "nope". This, after we had to spend some exorbitant fee for him to join.

The people making out are the promoters and distributors of the dreck they sell.

I had to sell assorted candy (M&Ms, Skittles, Reese's Pieces, Caramello, ec). It was all in the little $2.00 boxes. We were selling them to raise money for a school bathroom redecorate. 😅

That bathroom looked really nice when it was finished though!

Awww 🤗🤗
Yes, I remember, I hated doing it, probably should have realized then that I don’t like sales and I kinda don’t like people. ✌️

Kids don't do that nowadays. No candy sales. No car washes. They simply sit on the street corner with buckets asking for donations. What are we teaching these kids? How to be panhandlers?

Been there. Done that.

We never had anything like that when I was in school. I do remember my daughter doing similar.

Not candy, but we had to sell stamps every year.

The rich kids always won. I didn't even try.

....and Christmas cards. If you sold 20,000 boxes you got like a nickel.

Nope.

I had Never been keen on lame prizes.

They had those when I was in school but I never had to participate.

I think it was normally the azz kisser students who got recruited for that. I guess the school figured those students would be able to sell more stuff than some homely looking little brat like I was.

I hated that! I was always stupid stuff that no one wanted as well.

I never did that, but I did set up a plushie stand outside of our house and sold plushies to people who thought i was adorable for personal gains 🙈

Yes I do. I was never even close to being a top seller.

I remember those fundraisers, the kids who normally won the contests to see who could sell the most magazines, chocolates, pizzas, this, that, had parents that sold them for their kids at their places of work.