For those of you who have never heard of Sally Foster...WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?? Sally Foster is the catalog of beautiful but overpriced wrapping paper that each school child brings home the SECOND WEEK OF SCHOOL to beg for orders from friends and family. To make matters worse, Sally Foster offers PRIZE INCENTIVES to children to get them to push MORE ORDERS. All they see is the FREE IPOD NANO and they are hooked (they don't realize you need to sell 140 products (at about $10 a roll) to qualify! If my kids are lucky, I will order one or two rolls from each and let them qualify for the free crappy key chain (this year's key chain features Tic Tac Toe: OOOOO, challenging!
Here is the problem I have with Sally Foster: EVERY SCHOOL SELLS IT! That makes it impossible to sell to anyone other than immediate family, and ONLY if the immediate family members have no school age children.
At my son's preschool they had a fundraiser with cookie dough one year, frozen pretzels the next. Those are things that I would be willing to buy. Wrapping paper can be had for $1.99 a roll at Ocean State Job Lot or the Christmas Tree Shops. I don't need $10 wrapping paper. Why? BECAUSE IT'S JUST GOING TO GET RIPPED TO SHREDS ANYWAY!!!
I think someone should look into a fundraiser featuring adult pleasure toys. Can you see it now? "Hello Ma'am, I'm trying to raise money for my school? Would you be interested in some ben-wa balls, a Rabbit stimulator or a jar of cootchy cream?"
Our school would CLEAN UP!
2 comments:
Sally Foster goes right into the trash at our house. I would rather write one check to the school for all the year's fundraising efforts and call it a day.
Uh, yeah, did you notice they sent home that paper (monetary donation) in ADDITION to the Sally Foster shit??? I think they want BOTH!
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