Can I Vent?

[Jimbo]

Is anyone else out there inundated with kids' fund raisers? It's becoming a sickness here. There's a school fund raiser, then Girl Scout Cookies, then sports team fund raisers. And it's not just selling, if you buy from a family with a kid they expect you to buy from their fund raiser(s). Try to help them out by bringing it into work and it's not better ("OK, I'll buy from you if you buy from me."). Last night my 8th grader showed me hers. Why 8th grade has a graduation I'll never know, but she already needed a check $50.00 for cap and gown for commencement, then has to sell $150.00 worth of $25.00 coupon books for a class trip, which I looked thru and half the stores aren't even within 50 miles of us. It's absolute madness! And on top of that the hags in the neighborhood aren't much better with their, "I came to your Mary Kay party so you have to come to my Pampered Chef party, and hey, are you going to so-and-so's Southern Living Party and the candle party?" I can't take it anymore! Someone drop me off on a rock far out in the water.