Well, fall has finally come and with the turning leaves and joyfully cooler temperatures, fundraiser season has also shown up on our doorstep. I 
have swallowed my pride and begged every family member and friend I know (who isn’t selling fundraiser stuff; if they are I offer to buy from their kid if they buy from mine) to buy the $10 a roll wrapping paper so that my kids could go to the “main event.”
The main event is essentially an inflatable slide and gives them some time outside of the classroom; a few kids who sell over XX number of items will get their chance to win money, an iPod, or a Wii (I’d love to know what the chances are). However, the girls could not possibly miss the main event; are you kidding, missing a party??!!
All of this leads me to one idea; I think we need to find better ways to raise money for our schools. There’s only so much overpriced wrapping paper one can sell. Certain family members no longer answer my calls and cower in fear if I catch them off guard 
) Moreover, the schools get such a nominal percentage of the profits that I wonder if it’s all worth the effort. To top it all off, tax revenues are down, our teachers have had to take a pay cut, and it seems like there are more kids in our schools every single day. Soooo …. we need more money to give to our schools and I don’t know if the traditional fundraisers are cutting it.
Now, I have heard from my fundraising customers that cookie dough and pizza sales get a thumbs up. The school which the girls attend also has numerous family nights where a portion of the profits at a local eating establishment are donated to the school on a given night. Other than that I just don’t know; raffles, relays, etc?
So let me hear your ideas and thoughts so we can start changing it up a little (I really don’t want to spend another 90 bucks on wrapping paper) while getting more money for education.
