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Hi,everyone
I don't want to sound mean. I do donate. I do regularly in my church and for American Vet and Salvation Army. I also donate annually to my highschool, colleage and graduate school. However, recently I was bombed by the non stop donation requests. It's been more than a month now. I was frustrated. Am I being not a good citizen?
The addition donation actitivies were first from my DD school. I transferred her to a private school this fall. Her old public school did not request us doing any candy sales. We paid PTA due $10 for each student. It covers all the activities costs. I like that idea. Now, her new school constantly asked us to collect different food products labels. The problem is we don't eat those food. They want Campell soup labels, kellog cereal (the one with a lot of artifical colors and sugar) labels,etc. We like healthy food. This is what drives me crazy. On one hand, everywhere promoting eating healthy, fresh, home made meals, and here we go. The only way we can get labels is we had to buy those junk food. What's the point? Last night, my DD brought home form asking parents to sign up for selling chocholate bars. My DD wanted me to sign up otherwise she would feel embarrassed. If they really need, why didn't they ask for due, $10 for each student for whole school year, that is not out of reach. I don't want to push my family members and my co workers to buy more junks.
Talk about my work places. We have this donation push going on for more than a month now. The cause is good. My company wanted us to donate money for Off street club, for inner city kids. First, it is more volunteer. Now it is required to participate bake sales for donations. Again, we have to donate foods, then we have to buy those bakeries to donate to the club. It is very weekday. No wonder it is so hard for me to lose weight. Don't you think this is out of control? We also have several moms in my offices all year round selling candies for their kids' school, kids' sports teams, etc. It feels like every one wants money. Then why don't they just ask me for money, instead of asking me to buy something that I really don't need and don't want to buy? If I give them $10, the school or sport teams would get the whole $10. Instead, it I buy candies from them for these causes, schools or teams might only get no more than $5. I think the majority of the profits go to the candy companies, not school.
My question is for this kind of donation sales, it always asks kids' parents to sell junk food or something really over charged and you will hardly use it. Did it ever occur to the organizers that they might save someone but in the meantime, they push others into wrong direction - healthy wise.
BTW, if candies or the companies who are in connection with donation business, why couldn't they just write a checks to school instead of turning all kids and parents into junks salesmen?
Sorry for the long blah...
WantFit
"Become the change you want to see in the world. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
I don't want to sound mean. I do donate. I do regularly in my church and for American Vet and Salvation Army. I also donate annually to my highschool, colleage and graduate school. However, recently I was bombed by the non stop donation requests. It's been more than a month now. I was frustrated. Am I being not a good citizen?
The addition donation actitivies were first from my DD school. I transferred her to a private school this fall. Her old public school did not request us doing any candy sales. We paid PTA due $10 for each student. It covers all the activities costs. I like that idea. Now, her new school constantly asked us to collect different food products labels. The problem is we don't eat those food. They want Campell soup labels, kellog cereal (the one with a lot of artifical colors and sugar) labels,etc. We like healthy food. This is what drives me crazy. On one hand, everywhere promoting eating healthy, fresh, home made meals, and here we go. The only way we can get labels is we had to buy those junk food. What's the point? Last night, my DD brought home form asking parents to sign up for selling chocholate bars. My DD wanted me to sign up otherwise she would feel embarrassed. If they really need, why didn't they ask for due, $10 for each student for whole school year, that is not out of reach. I don't want to push my family members and my co workers to buy more junks.
Talk about my work places. We have this donation push going on for more than a month now. The cause is good. My company wanted us to donate money for Off street club, for inner city kids. First, it is more volunteer. Now it is required to participate bake sales for donations. Again, we have to donate foods, then we have to buy those bakeries to donate to the club. It is very weekday. No wonder it is so hard for me to lose weight. Don't you think this is out of control? We also have several moms in my offices all year round selling candies for their kids' school, kids' sports teams, etc. It feels like every one wants money. Then why don't they just ask me for money, instead of asking me to buy something that I really don't need and don't want to buy? If I give them $10, the school or sport teams would get the whole $10. Instead, it I buy candies from them for these causes, schools or teams might only get no more than $5. I think the majority of the profits go to the candy companies, not school.
My question is for this kind of donation sales, it always asks kids' parents to sell junk food or something really over charged and you will hardly use it. Did it ever occur to the organizers that they might save someone but in the meantime, they push others into wrong direction - healthy wise.
BTW, if candies or the companies who are in connection with donation business, why couldn't they just write a checks to school instead of turning all kids and parents into junks salesmen?
Sorry for the long blah...
WantFit
"Become the change you want to see in the world. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
