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nightshade said:
I don't think so.

I don't know anyone that sold chocolate for fundraising. It was always, asking for prizes for raffles or tombola, or just asking for money.
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If memory serves, we paid $20 for a box of 40 and sold them for a dollar each. Its surprising no one got bashed for them, but I guess people respected the fundraising chocolate.

NotASlayer said:
Why do I suspect that giving me a bunch of chocolate to fundraise with has the potential to end badly?
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I was only allowed to sell them once, for rock eisteddfod. I'm quite sure I used all of my lunch money to purchase my own chocolates instead. Hence only being allowed to sell them once.

You cant tell me this isnt EXACTLY my kind of chocolate!

 
nightshade said:
I don't think so.

I don't know anyone that sold chocolate for fundraising. It was always, asking for prizes for raffles or tombola, or just asking for money.
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November said:
If memory serves, we paid $20 for a box of 40 and sold them for a dollar each. Its surprising no one got bashed for them, but I guess people respected the fundraising chocolate.


I was only allowed to sell them once, for rock eisteddfod. I'm quite sure I used all of my lunch money to purchase my own chocolates instead. Hence only being allowed to sell them once.

You cant tell me this isnt EXACTLY my kind of chocolate!

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From junior high through high school fund raisers like this were pretty common (of course, this is back in the 80s). Chocolate, nut packs, etc. We sold it all for band. Local businesses ould help support by donating prizes if you reached a certain goal.

Best one ever was 7th grade. Sold enough chocolate that I got a free season pass to Astroworld. Dad would drop me and some friends off in the morning on his way to work, and pick us up on the way home.
 
Ah yes, band candy. Well, we didn't sell it for band but for class trips and the like. We sold chocolate, gingerbread thins, and - still a very popular one - salami.
Also candles. Salami and gingerbread cookies (if around Christmas) were usually the best sellers.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
For a brief moment there I thought you were selling salami-flavoured biscuits!
Ethan Reigns
Ethan Reigns
Salami cookies = dog biscuits here.
I used to go door to door to sell girl guide biscuits and netball raffle tickets. I guess I cant be surprised where I have ended up with a start like that lol.

I havent even seen girl guide bickies for years, if I did I would buy them in a heartbeat! So many fun camps and experiences funded by that. We would sell huge boxes of them, but it never tempted me quite like the Caramello Koalas did.
 
Kendar said:
It was pretty crappy chocolate. I want to say World's Finest. You'd get a box of 40 or so and sell them for a buck or so.
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"pretty crappy" chocolate calls itself World's Finest?

I guess they realised that honesty in marketing would not work!
 
This thread did make me realize something. Don't know if it is just my area or more widely spread, but the days of kids selling stuff door to door seems to have passed. I can't remember the last time I saw it (even with parents escorting which is how it was around 2000).
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
I don't think it was ever a thing in the UK.
Kendar said:
This thread did make me realize something. Don't know if it is just my area or more widely spread, but the days of kids selling stuff door to door seems to have passed. I can't remember the last time I saw it (even with parents escorting which is how it was around 2000).
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They take orders online nowadays. This year, I didn't see Girl Scouts (with parents) put up a table at the grocery store, even. In my day, we knew to go to the fraternities and sororities at the local university to make big sales, but we were free-range kids then.
 
November
November
Thats a great idea!
Kendar said:
This thread did make me realize something. Don't know if it is just my area or more widely spread, but the days of kids selling stuff door to door seems to have passed. I can't remember the last time I saw it (even with parents escorting which is how it was around 2000).
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Yeah, kids just throw rocks at my house now haha.

It seems a combination of factors. Some people see it as rude to knock unexpectedly with the invention of smart phones and constant communication options. The huge increase in population seeded a lot of distrust in my home city, we didnt know our neighbours anymore as blocks were subdivided. More gated apartments and fenced yards. Less community feel.

This town I am in now mostly welcome knocks on the door because socialising is one of the few things to do here haha. Its a much older demographic though. They see a door knock as a friendly gesture rather than threatening.

And then there are the latchkey kids who were taught to hide when there was a knock on the door - I see this regularly lol. Cant blame them, I was one told to never, ever answer the door if we were home alone as kids. That initial panic never quite leaves you haha.
 
I mowed the lawn. Something I should have done a couple of weeks ago but I could not be bothered doing then, and then was unable to do it thanks to rain.

I have now treated myself to a NotAMagnum. And a Benadryl One a Day.
 
NotASlayer said:
I mowed the lawn. Something I should have done a couple of weeks ago but I could not be bothered doing then, and then was unable to do it thanks to rain.

I have now treated myself to a NotAMagnum. And a Benadryl One a Day.
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Weeks ago???

Is this you lol?

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I should have done my lawn before the rain. I planned to and said I was going to. Slipped my silly little mind. Now it will be too wet for a while.

Yesterday was better than today. I did less today, and not for any other reason besides I forgot what I was going to do. And now I can't sleep, which is extremely unusual for me on a rainy new moon. Thats like a lullaby to me. Its gona be a hard weekend if I don't close my eyes soon!
 
Opened my pack of crumpets this morning, only 5 instead of 6! Disappointing, so I complained and they're going to refund me. They only cost 45p but that's not the point, I was expecting 6.
 
nightshade said:
Opened my pack of crumpets this morning, only 5 instead of 6! Disappointing, so I complained and they're going to refund me. They only cost 45p but that's not the point, I was expecting 6.
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That is horrible. My six crumpets costs £6.
 
I bailed out of the dance early last night because I had an early morning today. It was the London Vintage Radio Club flea market (also known as "junk in the trunk") and I was up at 5:00 AM and got to the flea market at 6:55 AM. Vendors were already setting up so I browsed the ones that had already arrived.

One vendor had home made crosses for winding a loop antenna. Since I need this for one of my radios, I asked the price. He said, "$10 for one, $15 for both of them." I looked more intently at the woodwork and he said, "OK. $10 for both." I now have both.

Another vendor had an EICO type 667 tube tester but he was asking $325 for it and it had no tube data or manuals and it was covered in "tropicalizing" varnish. I could use a new tube tester because mine are either damaged or unable to test newer tubes. Some other guy down the line had a pristine one with no varnish but the necessary tube charts and I asked him what he was asking for it. He said, "I'm offering it for half price; $45." No one has ever seen me pull out a wallet and count out money that fast.

Another guy had a bunch of stuff spread out on a tarp on the ground. His prices were good but I really didn't need a lot of this stuff. By 10:00 AM, all of the people who were interested had bought his stuff, so he said, "Everything on the tarp is free." I picked up some portable multimeters and an old Keithley digital meter at zero cost. I also got a Fender MD-20 1 watt miniature guitar amplifier for zero cost.

Another guy had some expensive stuff but I got a couple of banana sockets for $1, a couple of shallow jacks for $1 and couple of rolls of wire for $10. I also got a power transformer for $2.

This was an excellent day.
 
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