I think back to when I was a kid. Our school would have fundraiser’s every year.
Our “job” was to raise money by selling the generic chocolate candy bars with rice crispie’s in them. You would get like 20 bars a box, and if you were an over-achiever, you could get MORE boxes to sell, after those were sold.
DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE?
Back then kids going door to door selling stuff was considered SAFE. Our area is also “safe” and some kids to still practice this, but “I” am paranoid. No selling door to door for them.
Anyway-when I would go “sell” I’d end up eatting most of them anyway, and my mom or dad would end up buying me & my brother’s boxes! LOL!
Well nowadays things are VERY different!
We signed Noah up for T-Ball again this year (only this time I think he will actually WANT to go and play, not sit in the middle of the field and pout-EMBARRASSING!!!!). Upon signing up we had to pay like $30, and read we also had to sell a box of candy bars.
OK-Im thinking, like “back in the day”, we will get this box of 20 crispy generic candy bars.
NOPE! Look at what we get
YES! $52 worth of AMAZING candy bars! $52!!!! These aren’t your crispy bars from 1980’s! AND you have to sell 52! That is DOUBLE what we strived for as kids.
This is a diet nightmare sitting here! NIGHTMARE!!!!! I know “Lauren you can have will power! You can resist” But my friend Paulette said “Oh you HAVE to try the Take 5’s-they are amazing!”
Um yeah!! They totally are!!
There is NO WAY-we will end up “selling” all this candy. I already ate $5 worth! LOL! Don’t act like you couldn’t either-when PMS hits, you would be sitting there with me.
Now Im also thinking that T-ball sign ups cost $82! Between the fee and buying, um I mean selling the candy…………………..
I just had to share my tortchure 😀
Now for the card-
This is going to be for Noah after his first game.
This card uses my Sat. Sketch—–>HERE! I love this layout 😀 and it was perfect for this card!
I used the Bitzy Bugz-Play Ball and the sports sayings set byCHF ( I can’t find it there-maybe D/C’d?).
He is suppose to look like he just hit the ball.
The paper is by SU!
I used my Nestabilities to make my baseball.
I wanted to use my paper frills, to make a border, since layering would be a little difficult. I only had green-so I turned it over, and colored them with my Copic markers! Now it truly doesn’t matter WHAT color you get/have! Just flip and color.
I thought this came out really cute.
I can’t wait to share photos of Noah at Tee Ball this year. Should be a better one.
I do have a challenge to post for you all to try-so stay tuned. It may come later or tomorrow. I’m pretty busy and my poor finger is swollen :C
Till then!
55 Responses for "WOW! Times haved changed!"
We have a choice of selling or opting out by giving the organizations money…you should see if they will offer that in the future:) Between catholic school and sports we are selling and fundraising constantly. It sucks. It beats eating it, too.
I totally get the candy bar torture! Before I was a work at home mommy, I taught preschool. We also had the candy bar fundraisers for the kiddos, but as lead teacher I steped up and took 2 boxes home…to eat….I mean to sell! My husband ended up buying all of them because he knew that he’d end up paying for the ones I had eaten anyway.
I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the card. It is PERFECT for your sketch!! My midddle son (he’s 5) just started playing basketball. Maybe I can whip up one for him using the sketch! Great job as usual.
I love this card Lauren! Having three boys, I get really excited to see a “boy”card! I hear ya about the fundraising stuff! It is never ending! I usually don’t mind the candy bars, though. Even though I only work one night a month at the hospital, I just take them over and slap them down on the nurses station and within about two days they are all gone! (Nurses love their food!) You could also go to your local firestation. Firemen will usually put a pretty big hit on the candy bars too!
Hope your finger is better soon!
So cute Lauren! That card is adorable! I hope Noah enjoys ball this year!!!
Wow that is a lot of candy to sell…We usually buy most of the items ourselves rather than asking friends and family but with that, I would have to ask….I(I mean my hips) don’t need that much sweet stuff in the house….lol
The card is cute, and what a great way to use that sketch. As for the candy, I would be eating all of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and KitKat, but I HATE Take 5, so you could have my share 🙂
That is awesome! I know what you mean about selling the candy. I am supposed to be selling raffle tickets for Tylers preschool. I will just end up buying them all anyway. -Molly B
Lauren, stay strong!!!
I remember the same thing, you go down to your neighbors and sell stuff. But now, with my stepdaughter, we bought most of the stuff in the catalog so she can make ‘quota’. Why can’t they just go do carwash? That’s what we did…
Lauren, You brought memories back. I do I do remember those candy bars.
I am sure your little guy will love that card. I also hope you have more fun this year. I spent the same on ds last year who is 6 and he ran from the soccer ball.. My ds#2 is a sports nut, so it was a big change. lol
hope your finger is healing well.
oooooh you’re supposed to sell the candy, now why didn’y anybody mention that before!!!!! We used to eat, sell cookies in high school, torture!!! Although senior year we did grapefruits and oranges. What a great card!! Enjoy the season!!
Yep, candy bar torture! My son’s class sold chocolate covered pretzels twice this year for a class trip and we bought and ate most of them! Yikes!! I love your son’s card! He will love it. It is so nice to see something for a boy. I think we often forget that they like our handmade things also. Have a good day!
My daugther sells that same box for soccer…and they make them sell beef jerkey with it!! Turns out to be like 85 “pieces” that we…errr, she….has to sell!! I HATE when that time of year comes around. It’s like having a vending machine in the house…every time you get a sweet tooth, you just run to the box and stick your dollar in!! LOL
Adorable card! 🙂
I’m with you there on the whole candy bar thing! I’d be right there with you eating my weight in chocolate! I have ABSOLUTELY NO will power when it comes to chocoalte! Hurry up and get them out of the house! LOL Gorgeous card too by the way! You always rock! TFS {SMILES}
Really reat layout. I loved the angle you used. I’d never have thought of that. I appreciate al of you ideas. They help me alot!
Oops! That s/b Really Neat layout. ;>(
How cute! What a perfect t-ball card. Love the colors and the paper. Too bad you can’t find that set anymore. I’ll bet lots of people will be looking for it now!
Good luck selling and not eating all the candy bars. Yumm!
Yes…I too, remember selling those candy bars.
Wow..52 candy bars…yikes!! I know what you mean…
I would be eating them too.
My grandkids were just selling pizza and cookie dough
for their school fundraiser…and then the Girl Scout Cookies!!
No willpower here either….Good Luck!!
Another Super Cute card…Noah will Love this!
I really love this sketch…can’t wait to try it.
Dee
I just read your post to Matt and I was laughing so hard I was crying! So much truth, friend! I am still laughing! And, there is only like 2 Take 5 Bars left in our box!!!
I had to read your hilarious post to my “coach” husband. He got a big kick out of it. I hope you eat (I mean sell) out of your misery soon.
OH MAN! That’s fancy fancy candy! Times have changed. I hear you about door to door nowadays. I guess sometimes now the parents take the candy to work to sell. Good luck, try not to eat it all!
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OMG, Lauren — this is sooooo cool. You totally achieved the effect you were after, and I agree — paper frills are amazingly good things to have ;^)*
Oh, I am finally back after almost of month of being trapped in FL — I became very ill while visiting my folks with my 2 little ones, and was in the hospital and then recovering for two weeks to make it home on the plane… yikes! now I just want to get back into my routine… dialup in FL was torture… thank God for being home!
Yeah my neice is selling Girl Scout cookies right now and keeps giving me the sad puppy eyes to buy more so I feel your pain!
Oh, your card is AWESOME! That is just perfect for Noah! What a wonderful mother you are…your kids are SOOOO lucky! I can’t imagine getting all the cool handmade stuff that you do…I would be in heaven!
Thank goodness the days of fund raising have FINALLY passed from us…with the 4 boys, we ate our share of those doggone candy bars! LOL
Have a wonderful Sunday! 😀
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it only gets worse as they get older.
*Just* for G to play football, there is a $200 ‘pay to participate’ fee then there is everything else on top of it (uniform, cleats, pictures, games, etc). Same with K – another $200 *just* to do Spring Field and Track. The other part that kills me, we have to pay $5 *per person* just to watch the game! >> whadya going to do? >>
I’ve never had any luck sellling these boxes – between the four of us, we usually eat all of it.
Love the card – so cute! Good luck selling those candy bars. I’d buy a bunch from you if I was close enough to you!
Hugs,
Renee
I was born and raised in Germany! When we moved to Canada with our three kids and heard about this fundraising in the schools and later in the sports clubs I was in shock. That is unheard of where I come from. You just pay your fee! There is no volunteering either. It took me a very long time to get used to it, but what wouldn’t you do for your little ones ;)! Good luck with your chocolate bars, Beatrice
Cute card Lauren. Good luck not eating the box. There’s no way I could bring it home and not eat it. Between me and the kids it wouldn’t last an hour in the house. Never had the Take5’s, you’ll have to let me know how those are. 🙂
Totally cute card Lauren! Ok, so even $82 is cheap for t-ball. Where we live (CA) youth sports are so expensive. T-ball is like $150 for just registration. Yikes! I’d rather sell some candy (or eat a whole box and buy it myself) LOL!!
BTW, I would totally be eating some candy too so no worries! Eat ’em and then move on and keep working out! haha!
OK, I would have to leave those candy bars frozen in the car and hopefully out of sight and of mind and therefore off my you know where! There is a small part of me not looking forward to girl scouts and cookie time because those chocolate/coconut and caramel covered things not only speak to me, they sing seductively, 24/7.
You’re not alone Lauren. We also have one of those hideous boxes in our house! I begged my husband to just give them the money and tell them to keep the box but Mr. I don’t like chocolate bought the whole thing home and will leave me home alone with it all week! Grrr… It will probably cost us the 52.00 anyways and all we will have to show for it is Mommy’s expanded hips. What was he thinging! In desperation to get rid of the things my son and I went around the neighborhood and tried to sell some but the driveways where so icy I called a halt to it because I didn’t want to be paying emergency room fees too! We did manage to sell ten at least. At least that’s 2000 calories less in me this week.
Your card is really cute!! Now for the T ball and candy thing. Be thankful, because as they grow older and become more involved in different sports, the prices go waaaay up and the candy goes down. You will then pay $1000 or more for the travel team and have to bring your own chocolate!!!
oh what a perfect card for that sketch. I can tell you that that box of candy would not last long in my household! When my kids were young and their school would have those fundraisers, I actually saw that the school got very little for every candy bar sold. I finally decided the school and my hips came out ahead if I just sent the school a check for $25.00 and didn’t sell any candybars!
Oh my goodness, we would so totally just buy the chocolate bars & eat them! well I guess we would try!!! That’s alot of chocolate!
This card is awesome! I just love how this sketch worked so well for this card.
I don’t get why all the SPORTS clubs want kids to sell candy! It’s not a very good fit!! Aren’t they supposed to be promoting physical fitness? I don’t know why they don’t just ask for how much money they really need instead of asking parents to sell a gazillion $ worth of chocolate. We got hit up for this when my son joined bowling, but the chocolate was really good and . . well, I knew I wouldn’t sell most of it . . anyway, he quit before we had to pick up our box! I really like the sports card, hey, maybe you could just donate some cards to them and they could raffle them off. They’d certainly raise a pile of money!
once again a wondeful card sooo different thats what i love about your work.
chriss x
blog candy at mine Lauren you are invited over to try for it.
Too Stinkin’ cute. What a wonderful card.
wow – that is pure torture to have all that candy at your house! I remember the days of selling candy too – we had those carmello-type of candy that was probably even more fatty than chocolate/krispie bars and we ate/sold to ourselves back then too! your son does have a cute face, so maybe he could sell some to your church friends or direct neighbors! 🙂 who could resist an adorable kid with chocolate anyway?
yup, I remember those days AND I’ve had to buy that candy from people too!!! but yes the Take 5s are good!!! TRY not to eat so much! and what a great card for your son!!!
I am with you, don’t really like the going out and selling stuff door to door anymore, I did it as a kid but just didn’t like that for mine…..I have never tried a take 5, now the next time I see one waiting in line at the store you know I am going to be tempted. What a Terrific card for after his first game!
This card is so cute! He will love it!
AHHHH yes the box of chocolate that is the box we get every year but my oldest is in Catholic school so we have to sell it for the school.. WELL this year my DS2 goes to kindgarten so I guess instead of selling 1 box I will have to eat I mean sell 2 boxes! lol
I love your card its sooo cute! I have that stamp.. hmmmm 🙂
-Ellie
I love the baseball card! The ball itself is SO COOL!
Wow great candy. We have these things called Major Saver cards..You pay 10.00 and there is about 10 restaurants on them…usually buy one get one free…If I was closer, I would buy some from you…and help you eat some..good luck. Love the Noah baseball card!!
Oh I know the “cost” of playing sports!!! In money and pounds:) My oldest is 16 and he has played sports since he was 5. Now he’s a Junior in high school and plays football. It is $985.00 a year to play football. (On top of our $8950.00 for tuition!!) Of course you can “sell ads” for our program, but it is so difficult that I just end up making several ads for my son instead.
That also helps to explain why I am on such a tight budget for crafting!! We now have 3 kids were paying tuition for!! 1 high school and 2 preschools.
Love the baseball card! Owen (my 4 year old) is starting Bitty Sports T- Ball next month..that idea would be a good scrapbook page too!!
Hope your finger is feeling better!!
Yeah..well count yourself lucky (for now) ;)……I have two daughters, each in band,choir and other activities. Selling…..yep you guessed it, that same box of candy. And they are expected to sell two of those 52 cases! YIKES!!!
And when the late night cravings hit….it hits my pocket book too!
I love the baseball card. Really cute!
Jules
I know exactly what you mean! My 5th grandchild was born last Thursday – the oldest is 18!! I feel like I’m only 30 (instead of 54!)
You are only as old as you THINK you are!! (not as old as you feel….. thanks goodness!)
Love all your stuff – especially the beach stuff. Thats my favorite.
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