Things are so much different

[arista]

I had a young man come to the door last night. He was kid in the neighborhood. Grant it, I do not live in "high" crime neighborhood. He did not have a parent and he was selling something. I would be scared these days to send my kid to anyone's door, without a parent. He also had the worst selling technique. He barely mumbled what he was selling and the cause.
Please parents do not let your children "sell" stuff without parent-There are so many weirdos these days.

 

[Out of Order]

What was he selling?

 

[arista]

He was selling various food items for his football team.

 

[Sundrop]

My daughter will have several fundraising projects this year. Part of the fundraising will be selling wrapping paper, candy bars, small gift items and candles to raise funds for the 8th grade trip at the end of the year.
While I agree that she will not go alone, and either her father or I will drive her through our neighborhoods, I do think it is important that she do the actual speaking and selling. It will help her to develop her public speaking skills.
I also never just buy stuff from the pages that parents bring to the salon or to my door.....I expect the child to do the asking.

 

[Out of Order]

He was selling various food items for his football team.

Did you buy the popcorn or the candy bars?

My daughter will have several fundraising projects this year. Part of the fundraising will be selling wrapping paper, candy bars, small gift items and candles to raise funds for the 8th grade trip at the end of the year.
While I agree that she will not go alone, and either her father or I will drive her through our neighborhoods, I do think it is important that she do the actual speaking and selling. It will help her to develop her public speaking skills.
I also never just buy stuff from the pages that parents bring to the salon or to my door.....I expect the child to do the asking.

Ah.....a politician in the making.

 

[skimom2]

I hated those fundraising things (so glad my kids' schools now don't do them). It got to the point that I told the teachers not to even send them home with the kids & just donated $20 per kid to the school right at the beginning of the year (I had 2-3 in school then). Best decision I ever made--it saved me a bunch of stress. Seriously--I don't go door to door, everyone else in the neighborhood is selling the same crap, and I got tired of hitting up family.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

I wasn't overjoyed at the prospect of selling stuff door-to-door, but I was actually good at it. Go figure. Comes from having that paper route for about six years, 2.5 miles a day, six days a week, for a whopping $2.40 a week...10-cents a paper. Mrs. Karjela gave me cookies...every week...molasses cookies...Mrs. Bodie gave me two candy bars...the Holmes gave me a couple Snickers bars and a dime tip. There was Cinders, this little bast@ard of a dog, lived up to his name. I try to buy from the kids when they come around, usually two to three in a group...sometimes we see what we bought, sometimes we don't. If you're a kid, what you do is show up with snowflakes in your eye-lashes, a plastic baby wrapped in a papoose on your back, tell 'em she's your baby sister, you're just a poor wayfaring orphan trying to make a dime. Sold all kinds of magazine subscriptions, pasties, a buck-a-shot...they must be five six bucks a piece by now. Even now I have people ask me how my baby sister is...I've got her duct-taped to the ladder rack, so they're curious.