One of the greatest things about having a home and living in a neighborhood with school kids is that they have PTA fundraisers every year. There are three kids on my court that have hit us up for goods. Last year we bought a magazine subscription to US News and World Report and a box of Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough. Yummy good.
A few weeks ago, we were hit up again and we got a cheesecake from one kid and more chocolate chip cookie dough from another. My life is good!
Comment starter: What is the best thing you've ever purchased from either a door-to-door salesman or a kid doing a fundraiser?
Jess
4 comments:
I don't think we have purchased anything too exciting. We purchased a candy bar from one girl who was raising money for her church and a little bible story book from a boy who was trying to earn money for his school tution (some private school or something). I would love the cheesecake or the cookie dough. Why don't they sell things like that here?
Gift wrapping. Geoff and Sarah have these Sally Foster fundraisers all year it seems! I love the gift wrapping because it's always reversible and really heavy duty. It doesn't tear when you need to wrap an odd shaped gift. I forgot to buy it this year though. It's great to get the kind that's girly on one side and boyish on the other. Then we've got it all covered.
Jason once sold plastic glasses -- they were rust and cream colored. We bought them, I think, not long after we moved to California and started school there. We still have one of those glasses. After all these years!!
We also had a young, black guy come and try to sell us some great educational books. I had Ammon with me in the room and he asked me what was wrong with him. We talked a bit about Ammon and then I (very kindly) told he we couldn't afford the books but that I thought they were really great ones. I wished him luck and he left. Shortly afterward he came back and gave me a set and said that he wanted Ammon to have them. They are wonderful books! He wouldn't be talked out of it because apparently he had a son with disabilties or a relative -- can't remember all the details but he wanted Ammon to have these books. We have them and they are wonderful.
Mom
Well, that certainly beats cheesecake! All my story does is make me fatter, while yours is encouraging.
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