Open Letters

[186momx]

shakinros,
We are using this outlet for the Butter Braid fundraiser www.oaktreefundraising.com/ as they are our local distributor. I looked up www.butterbraid.com originally and found them based in the Midwest. It is a frozen 1lb pastry that you have to thaw for 8-10 hours before cooking. We had samples at open house and they are a really good pastry so worth the $$$. They are not sold in stores so if you do them and get people hooked it could create a lot of money. Our principle said her son's preschool sold them and she would always go back and by 5-10 each fall because they were so popular in her house and her son is now in middle school.

I wish we would sell poinsettias or wreaths but the high school boosters club has a monopoly on that.
186momx

[2chatter]

186momx - I wish we could do anything but these and cookie dough! Two out of three kids in my house can't have the food products - and I don't need them. I'm writing a check for the amount we would have earned if we sold cookie dough. Proud of resisting but annoyed by the food fundraisers. But yum. Sigh.

[pengy86]

Dear self,
What happened to your weekend? It's so jammed packed, I'm dreading the weekend. Also, why does everything have to happen this weekend?
Thanks,
Already overwhelmed and the weekend hasn't even started

[186momx]

2chatter, I'm not to enthused by food fundraisers either. I'm buying 1 braid. What I really dislike is the school saying don't go door to door. Have your parents take it to work to sell or sell to relatives. I feel like this then becomes the parent selling and not the kid. The school does make a bigger profit from this than when they do the pizza nights. Bring in a flyer to the most expensive pizza place and the school gets 10% so you spend $40-50 on crappy pizza for your family and the school gets pennies. I guess I'm a fundraising Grinch.

[saraml13]

Dear asshole dude in the cafeteria,
I'm sorry you feel like you get pushback about taking time off, but it is completely inappropriate for you to loudly rant in the cafeteria about how unfair it is that women get pregnant and then "get 3 months off to do nothing". The volume, tone, and content of your comments were completely out of line, particularly at a company that prides itself on being family friendly. You're lucky that I don't know your name, otherwise I would have reported you to HR.
Signed,
Woman who was laid off as soon as I returned from maternity leave

[erinshelley21]

This is making me happy that the school where our kids will go doesn't sell anything for their fundraisers, except for a mum fundraiser in the fall. Their big fundraisers are a pampered chef/longaberger bingo (although I hope they move from the baskets to thirty-one soon) in the fall and then a chicken dinner in the spring. Now that I say this I'm sure they'll change it before DS gets there in 2 years.

[twinmomma]

I'm so glad our district seems on board with not selling a ton of crap for fundraisers. We just did one that was a ninja warrior obstacle course. The kids asked for "sponsors" to donate money, and then every kid in the school gets to run a parent-built obstacle course, regardless of how much money they made. It was a blast, got the kids active and involved, and raises a TON of money because 100% goes back to the school.

[sweetptater]

A local school district sent these home with the kids the first week of school. I'm praying my district jumps on this bandwagon.  

[186momx]

sweetptater, I love this idea.

Dear River of Rain
Can you please not rain tomorrow between 12-2. I'm chaperoning DD's pumpkin patch field trip and it would be way more fun if the parents and kids don't get soak.
So can we get the 3 inches of rain over the next 3 days not during the trip maybe
Mom who doesn't want to be a drowned rat and doesn't want a sick kid next week

[erinshelley21]

Dear hubby's immune system,
You're really f'ing with the 4 day break I was about to have. 4 days of an extra set of hands after being alone with both kids since Sunday and on about 4 hours of sleep per night. The amount of relief I felt when he walked on the door this morning was incredible and now gone since he is holed up in bed and throwing up now.
Signed, a wife and that came home from work early to sleep since she is exhausted and felt like she was going to pass out

[mellym]

sweetptater, our school PTO collects $20 from each family the first week of school so we don't do fundraisers. Love it!

[sweetptater]

Oct 20, 2017 9:55:35 GMT -5 mellym said:

sweetptater , our school PTO collects $20 from each family the first week of school so we don't do fundraisers. Love it!

I wish ours would! I'd happily give $500 just to get them to leave me alone for the year. We're already on Fundraiser 2 in less than 6 weeks. 

[Covergirl82]

Oct 19, 2017 14:30:10 GMT -5 sweetptater said:

A local school district sent these home with the kids the first week of school. I'm praying my district jumps on this bandwagon.  

My district does something like this (coincidentally I'm in MI too, but on the West side), but it's tied to a one-hour walking event at the school each fall.  They have an extra recess as a reward for kids who get $50 in donations, so we write a check for $100 and call it good. I love it. (And I was such a shy kid growing up that I hated school fundraisers where I had to sell things to neighbors.)

[akafred]

Dear School,

I love the idea of the in-school field trip to do a Lego competition with the women in construction group. Great idea! However, if you are going to start school early that morning, better communication would be appreciated. School starts at 9. My child was there before 9 and was devastated not to be able to participate. I knew nothing about the time change. DH filled out the permission slip because it was available at school when he dropped off earlier in the week. The email reminding parents of the "field trip" said nothing of a time change. DH says he knew nothing. No one said anything to me verbally when I picked up during the week. DH is certain he was on time. What is up?

Signed,
Picking Up the Pieces

[shakinros]

That is bs akafred. I'm so sorry C wasn't able to participate