From pushing cookie dough and candy bars to coordinating car washes and wrapping paper fundraisers, here\u2019s why product fundraisers have fallen out of favor with parents and what better fundraising ideas have emerged to replace them.<\/p>\n
One<\/strong>: Your child comes home from soccer practice with a fundraising packet as dense as War and Peace<\/em>.<\/p>\n Two<\/strong>: The next week, you are taking your child door to door, trying your best not to visibly cringe when you hear him ask your cul-de-sac neighbor (whom you\u2019ve successfully managed to dodge at every mailbox encounter) if she would like to buy some *insert product that the neighbor would definitely not like to buy here.* This season it\u2019s cookie dough.<\/p>\n Three<\/strong>: You manage to scrape together a few pity-orders from Grandma, your co-worker who owes you a favor, and that one friend with a serious sweet tooth. Your child needs 15 orders, however, to escape being tarred and feathered by their team, so you grin and bear it as you write a check for 12 orders of Aunt Sadie\u2019s Famous* (*not actually famous) Cookie Dough.<\/p>\n Congratulations<\/strong>! Your kid can now play a team sport without risk of being put in the stocks for the night. Good thing it only took hours of your time, a Mini Cooper-sized chunk of freezer space, and hundreds of cookie dough-supported insulin spikes in order to make it happen!<\/p>\n Selling products to fundraise is less than ideal \u2013 and parents have many complaints.<\/p>\n