Terry's 3M's
"Will you tie this for me?" "Look what Johnny's wearing!" "Mama, I need a haircut!" Ah, the sounds I wake to on the first morning of the school year. I have been enjoying the quiet, although, I must say that the day has gone by much too quickly. Later: It figures. The first day for their track at school and they bring home fund raising materials. Frozen cookie dough. $10 a bucket that makes 8 dozen. If I had the money, I'd buy a pail. (Actually, they are delivered a couple of weeks from now.) It would be interesting to try the white chocolate macadamia nut kind. At least this stuff is more practical than the other stuff that they had been asked to sell in previous years. Like the year that they brought home the brochures with cheap, cheesy kitchen magnets for $5 or the chocolate bars for $5 and key rings for $10. The kids took off to sell door to door (which they are not supposed to do) while I was reading the mountain of paperwork that was sent home for the adults to read and digest and making a list of supplies that needed to be bought for each kid. I had already made dinner and it was cold by the time they came home. They made two sales.
The school is discouraging door to door selling and asking that parents take the order forms to work with them and sell the stuff for the kids. This is done with the idea that it isn't exactly safe for kids to sell on their own. Well, i hadn't given the kids permission to go door to door, they just took off on their own. But, I figure that they're safe enough. The 4 of them travel together. Besides, that is the only way they are ever going to make any sales because I'm way beyond broke and there were so many parents doing it where Faye works that it is now against the rules. And it's not worth risking one's job to sell a fund-raising item for one's kid.
Bryan came home all fired up about selling magazines last week. He's really discouraged now because nobody wants to buy magazine subscriptions at inflated prices Most people said that they have more magazines than they can read as it is. Which is probably the truth. At our house, it's the same way.
Under my name:
Joint subscription with Faye/me:
Under Faye's name:
Under Delton's name:
Lots of computer magazines for a family that's more like apprentices than computer experts.
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