Fundraiser
It's that time of year again. Back to school, back to fundraising. Let me start off by saying, I get it. The school needs these fundraisers for the extras. They are raising the money for more playground equipment, computers, and other things to enhance my children's education .But come on. Today marks the end of the first month of school and I already feel inundated. In the second week we had a fundraiser sent home. They hadn't even started homework yet, and yet it already begins. The kids were wild with excitement because if they turned it in the next day they'd get a set of blinking teeth. Imagine my joy.
I didn't send the fundraiser back to school that next day, much to the chagrin of my boys. I didn't send it back at all because we don't have family nearby, and even if we did, I'd hate to hit them up at every fundraising opportunity. Our friends and neighbors have kids in the same school my kids, and they are just as frustrated with the never ending packets of overpriced stuff to buy.
Just as I decided not to purchase our local discount card (because we rarely frequent the businesses on it) I received a packet for cookie dough sales from the preschool. I almost bought the fifteen dollar cookie dough, and then decided against it. No sooner had I let the guilt pass along with the turn in date, did I find in my 2nd and 1st graders backpacks yet another packet of something or other for them to sell in an effort to raise money for something. If they sent it back in all filled out by the deadline (the next day) they could be entered into a drawing (for a vacation to FL! Um, we live in FL) and get a bonus gift of "rockin' flash" sunglasses! I let that deadline pass too.
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