Selling Spaghetti

Hahaha, that seems easier than most of the things that children try to sell nowadays. My daughters school has a field trip for 7th and 8th graders to go to Washington DC over spring break. The cost of that trip is $1785, that's before spending money. They have an installment plan also and if you signed up for it in May last yr I believe the cost was around $225 a month. While it sounded like a great opportunity that is just more than most families can afford, also all the money comes out of our pocket no fundraisers to offset costs. They alternate between going to DC and NYC, I told our daughter we would see about NYC since that wouldn't be until the Spring of 2018, but it's still a lot of money. Her Choir class also is making a trip to Denver at the end of the school yr to do a performance and then go to some amusement park we haven't been told how much that one will cost as of yet. I'm sure that will come out of our pocket also with no fundraisers to offset the cost. We will just have to wait and see on that one.

Don't you just have to talk people into paying for a pasta dinner - that can't be too difficult. 285 filed trip - that sounds like a lot of money to begin with. If I had to I could sell it.

That is a hefty cost. I'm no salesman either. I wish you well.

although you hate fundraisers they are an excellent way to raise funds if you need the funds. If you really don't need the funds why bother. But fudge, chocolate chip cookies are good sellers. Everyone loves goodies. You put two in a ziploc bag and sell em for 75 cents a piece

$285/per young'un fer jest'n o'ernight trip? mercy, sounds purty spendy to me. like yerself, i can't sell schtuff neither. perhaps why i give so much 'way. those young'uns fundraisers make me cranky, too. i dunno what the schools think they're teachin' 'em??

That's a lot of money for an over night trip. Where are they going and are they staying in a 5 star hotel?

That's quite of bit of money for a overnight field trip. But anyways good luck and have fun.

if it's for fundraiser then I am hoping it does reach the goal.

My grandkids school has spaghetti fundraisers and they are very successful, people love to eat out and spaghetti is popular. You probably wouldn't have to do much selling, just mentioning to friends and family that there is a dinner.

I'm not keen on fund-raising either. Luckily I don't have to do it too often nowadays.

I'm not big on fundraisers either but for a big plate of spaghetti I could be persuaded! My favorite food along with pizza!

I could never be a salesman. I don't handle rejection well.

It's good to sell and it's fun

This has become a trend I todays world....and all the parents are helpless

How can an overnight trip for a kid be so expensive?

I always used to hate those fund raisers when my kids were in school. I'd rather just pay a certain amount and we'd all be better off. But $285 does seem like an awful lot. When we had fundraisers at church, we would make the food, then turn around and buy a ticket! It would sure have been easier and cheaper just to donate a certain sum.

I was never good at selling things either. I'm more of a buyer than a seller

Fund raisers are more in numbers. It is difficult to recognize the good or bad purpose.

I used to hate those fund raisers, we sold newspaper subscriptions, magazine subscriptions, christmas wrapping paper, all kinds of things people didn't want to buy.