Door to Door Sales by Kids

Trust me, I am RIGHT there with you! Check out the whole school fundraiser thread from when school started. 8) The problem is, I already wrote them a rather large check that was supposed to cover ALL the expenses to the council that my scout would incur for the year. I will ask folks, but if they aren't interested, so be it! Same thing with the coupon books for the PTA, if I sell some, fine, if I don't, that's fine too! I certainly know that people's budgets may not be able to fit those sorts of things in, mine sure doesn't sometimes.

 

There is another thread in here related to school fund raisers that addresses issues such as the LACK of tax money and exactly what it does not pay for.

Until I got involved in the PTA I had no clue either just how much things cost for the schools / kids. With that said, I also learned how much the government and the taxes do not pay for. It was a shock and a real eye opener.

Wanna come to a board meeting or review a PTA school budget?

 

The schools also apply for government and private grants, which are available to all non profit organizations. I'm not involved in the boy scouts so please forgive my idiotic question. Is the boy scouts a non profit organization? Do they apply for grants?

 

My involvement has been pretty recent. I am sure there are other's who are more knowledgable than me. I am pretty sure it is non-profit though and I don't believe they get any gov't funding. Private donations is my understanding.

 

Koo, that's usually what I do when the PTA does fundraisers at my daughters school. I'd rather write a $20 check (that's all profit) instead of my daughter having to sell $500 worth for them to make that same $20.00.

 

If the PTA does their research most companies give anywhere from 30%-50% of the total sold, which would be a lot more than $20.00 of 500 sold.

 

This Scout fundraiser says 70% of the profit (average) goes to the Pack or Troop.

 

I was just using that number as an example. I bet a lot more parents would write the PTA checks, if they had the choice of that or a fundraiser. Now I like the carnival, bulldog run, etc. things that the PTA does where my children doesn't have to "sell" items.

 

Yes, we have plenty of parents who just write checks. We welcome and encourage them if this is what they feel best suites their style. The stuff where kids don't have to sell items are great too!! Holiday Bazaar, Auctions w/ dinner provided.....We do those too.

I know the fund raisers aren't for everyone, but the fact is most people like to get something tangible when they spend money.

 

Wow! That's awesome!!!! Go Scouts!

 

Wasn't there a thread about door to door kids a while back?

Dont' send them to my house!

<not like ya'll are coming to Apex anyway>

 

There's usually rewards for kids who sell more. This kid was probably trying to earn some reward as well as help his troop by biking a lot. Working for something he wants, instead of just expecting it to be given to him. Sounds like qualities I would like my children to earn. For safety sakes, I would also be with my child. I understand wanting to buy from a child you have some connection to. It's your money-you get to choose if and how to spend it. When I was a kid, I used to spend hour selling chocolate bars outside my local grocery stores. My parents would not do any selling for me. it was against rules at work and they didn't want to put friends in an ackward position. I was still the top seller that year. If my child needed to sell something and we were limited to friends, family and work, my child would not do very well. Family is out-of-state, I'm a SAHM, my husband works at a small company and most of my friends would either be selling as well or are too frugal to buy most of the fund-raiser type things

 

I don't have a problem with kids standing outside the grocery store, with a parent of course.

 

I, myself, am opposed to kids pushing items for schools. I don't buy from anyone outside of our neighborhood and few within. We live in a big neighborhood and I know alot of people, so if I purchased from everyone's child I know I would be broke.

Several years ago I complained to the school and the School Board about our kids pushing items. I told my daughter that we would not participate anymore. Of course, she was embarrassed and disappointed. I explained to her that between paying for Clubs, school sports outfits, items for the classroom, etc. it came to alot of money. I, also, explained that I was curious as to how the families who cannot afford all of the above manage. We talked about it and even discussed that if a child is not in a year-round sport they just cannot make the cut in school and think about how much it costs to do a year-round sport.

No thank you. We can find a better solution than putting our kids on the streets to beg for money. People look through the catalog, like I have, and just pick something (none of which one really needs other than rapping paper).

Jen...next time explain to a kid that you are not interested and don't feel guilty.

Grace

 

Personally door to door is better in my opinion that say...standing outside the walmart or lowes food entrance hawking your wares (like the girl scouts have a tendancy to do).

At least going door to door I have the right to decided to answer my door or not, don't have that option when getting hounded by pushy rug rats and pushy parents walking outta Lowes with my case of beer in hand.


Craig

 

<Off the subject>
Grace, how is your daughter doing?

 

popcorn does go better with beer than cookies! but am peddling neither, so sorry.

 

i dont want popcorn, i dont want candy, i dont want wrapping paper, i dont want greet cards...SELL ME SOME CAR MAGAZINES!!!

 

Do you wanna buy a magazine? I have a fund raising paper for my kids school. :lol:

 

car magazines only