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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 199456" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Our schools have always encouraged the children to solicit family and friends only - no door to door sales. However, most parents of children 12 and under will go around with them to sell. We've met a lot of our neighbors over the years, some nice and some not so nice. I never encouraged my girls to sell a thing, which on the surface sounds mean. Instead, I would make a monetary donation to the general PTO fund and call it a day. Sometimes, I would buy the gift wrap and get some familiy to do so as well, but I have no use for frozen, stale or moldy cheesecakes and cookie dough. It's just gross.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">About a month ago, some boyscout wandered into our place of business selling the popcorn. I bought some but I was truly annoyed about this. We're in a large office building, typically solicitation is discouraged and some solicitors are asked to leave. We bought a "No Soliciting" sign for our front door the very next day. I know it sounds mean, but it really isn't right to have people traipsing in and out of our offices selling stuff. We had a guy come in (AFTER the sign was up) selling paintings?? I mean, wth, do people sitting at work dream of buying paintings from a stranger going door to door all day? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Anyway, I buy girlscout cookies and boyscout popcorn. And if a kid came selling the wrapping paper, I would probably buy that. I used to cringe when my girls came home with their sales packet - especially when I saw the lame prizes for most items sold. There difficult child would be hankering for some stupid fake microphone that echoed. Or easy child silently hoping she'd sell enough wrap to win the bubble gum making toy. Puh-leez. All they every won was the stupid cartoon patch or the plastic flashlilght that didn't even come with a battery! LOL></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 199456, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Our schools have always encouraged the children to solicit family and friends only - no door to door sales. However, most parents of children 12 and under will go around with them to sell. We've met a lot of our neighbors over the years, some nice and some not so nice. I never encouraged my girls to sell a thing, which on the surface sounds mean. Instead, I would make a monetary donation to the general PTO fund and call it a day. Sometimes, I would buy the gift wrap and get some familiy to do so as well, but I have no use for frozen, stale or moldy cheesecakes and cookie dough. It's just gross.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]About a month ago, some boyscout wandered into our place of business selling the popcorn. I bought some but I was truly annoyed about this. We're in a large office building, typically solicitation is discouraged and some solicitors are asked to leave. We bought a "No Soliciting" sign for our front door the very next day. I know it sounds mean, but it really isn't right to have people traipsing in and out of our offices selling stuff. We had a guy come in (AFTER the sign was up) selling paintings?? I mean, wth, do people sitting at work dream of buying paintings from a stranger going door to door all day? [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Anyway, I buy girlscout cookies and boyscout popcorn. And if a kid came selling the wrapping paper, I would probably buy that. I used to cringe when my girls came home with their sales packet - especially when I saw the lame prizes for most items sold. There difficult child would be hankering for some stupid fake microphone that echoed. Or easy child silently hoping she'd sell enough wrap to win the bubble gum making toy. Puh-leez. All they every won was the stupid cartoon patch or the plastic flashlilght that didn't even come with a battery! LOL>[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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