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"Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren."
Wheezy 9153 desperate attention whore postings
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02-28-04, 11:11 AM (EST)
 
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"Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
Kids should be banned from selling candy bars.$5 for an icky almond chocolate bar? Didn't those things used to be a buck? They come to the door, tilt their heads and say "pleasy wheezy?" What am I supposed to do with that? I can't say no. Now, if they were weary, haggard, crabby adults selling the candy bars, or even a good looking woman in a bikini, I could resist. In fact, I think Johnny Depp would be the best candy bar seller ever (though he should not wear his gold teeth cuz people might associate the candy bars with tooth decay). And the worst of it is when their little sign says they have Carmellos and Krispies as well as the icky almond, but they already sold out of those. I really feel I should have an equal chance to buy the Carmello. This whole law of supply and demand is (dare I say it?) infringing on my rights (nope I didn't dare). I? Think I will buy some candy bars and try to sell them to the children who come to my door. And to the Jehovah's Witness people. They could probably use a candy bar. Don't you think?  Wheeze
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02-28-04, 06:19 PM (EST)
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30. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
So looks like I have to head over there now.How cool is it to be that high up looking over Miami and the Beach going through that channel? Before 9/11 we used to sail up to the cruise ships, within inches. Now we can’t even be in the channel. The marina on the left as you go out is where I used to live, just before you pass by Smith & Wollensky’s and across from Fisher Island. After that you’ve got 45 miles before you pass by Bimini. You pass it way north though so you’d never see it. I might make the trip to Nassau the end of March. We have a bunch of boats heading over. 
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37. "Sister Ship" |
Hey Wheeze...The helsman in the pic asked for a copy of some of her other pics and I ran across this one. Look familiar? This is actually the sister ship, Voyager. I think they just leave on different days but use the same dock. This is the only cruise ship pic I found. When ya live right next to them, it never seems like there's an urgent need to photograph them. 
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Wheezy 9153 desperate attention whore postings
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03-01-04, 07:57 AM (EST)
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38. "RE: Sister Ship" |
WAH!!! I wanna go back! Looks very familiar, Clueless  Wheeze if you see my phone charger anywhere, can you send it to me? It's somewhere in Miami.
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02-28-04, 11:34 AM (EST)
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3. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
I like the idea of selling candy to the Watchtower pushers! Of course, to do that you actually have to open the door.I will buy the minimum thing from a kid I know, for strange kids I will sometimes say "Oh darn! I just bought a bunch from my neighbour!" It depends on how cute & unsophisticated I think their approach is. Exception: I had one neighbour whose kids used to sell candy bars to "practise" entrepreneurship and finance their summer camp. I told them to get a job, LOL. (I didn't like that busybody woman anyway.) 
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02-28-04, 11:51 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
I might be viewed as a Grinch, but I just don't buy the candy bars anymore, and I didn't allow my child to push them on people when the school sent them home with a list of junky "prizes" the children could win for various amounts of candy or whatever fund raiser was going on at the time. I tell the school we will not participate, and that's all I have to say. I don't want to encourage these companies who exist for the sole purpose of having children sell items in the pursuit of raising funds for the schools or whatever. I think they have to gouge people to make a profit for themselves and the schools.I actually saw an item that I had purchased in the dollar store listing for $6.99 on one of these fund raiser sales. That convinced me that it was not a good thing for kids to be used to sell overpriced products. I would rather hand over a little cash for their cause and not purchase anything, than to let these companies continue to exploit the kids to sell overpriced products. YMMV 
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02-28-04, 12:21 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
You know, I hate it too, but I always buy. (By the way, was it too much to ask for my cousin to deliver the GS cookies BEFORE lent???) and now, my kids are going to be doing it. DS sold popcorn for Tiger Scouts, but didn't rejoin in 2nd grade so we got out of that. But, little league requires a fundraiser. Ugh. And the dance class has a fundraiser every fall, but I don't mind doing that because we get 20% of her sales towards her recital costumes LOL However, my neighbors and family are probably not so cracked up. We get lots of raffle ticket sales here...and food drive requests (From the scouts) As far as the Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. Tell them they can come in and talk about their religion as long as you get equal time to tell them about yours. It usually works 
"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."
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02-28-04, 12:47 PM (EST)
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17. "Excuses" |
What are some good excuses NOT to buy? What do you tell the little sellers? " My niece already sold me some." "My uncle sells those too." " Somebody already came to my door yesterday." Any other suggestions besides NO ?
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02-28-04, 02:22 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Excuses" |
If it's candy, you can always say you're a diabetic (true for me) or you can't eat chocolate (maybe because of the diet you are on). I think the key is to just say no in a nice way. Maybe you don't even need to give a reason, just say "No thanks" and close the door.As for Jehovah Witnesses, I had one bring a child with her. When I said no to taking a watchtower, she had the child try to hand it to me. I was mortified that a mother would use her child this way. It was done in a very pushy manner, too. My DH had tried talking about our religion with the JW's. That didn't work, because they still wanted to talk about it.
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02-28-04, 03:41 PM (EST)
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26. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
They push these candybar fundraisers in our school district too and we also refuse. I am SO much more willing to just donate actual dollars to my kids school. So that is what we do...I write a nice little note saying I won't allow my child to participate and then I give them a check for $20. Which is probably 10 times MORE money than the school would get if my kid sold 100 of these crappy candy bars/wrapping paper/greeting cards, whatever. As long as you brought up this rant, I am gonna go off on a rant of my own. I have been very involved in the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life for the last 4 years and it makes me CRINGE at how much money is wasted. We do all these fund raisers leading up to the walk and then we have our teams and you pay $10 for being on the team and they give you a tee shirt for participating. I know that is nice and all, but I always refuse the teeshirt and it makes me angry that they even do this. They spend so much on the "prizes" and the "awards" for raising funds when that money could be better spent on the actual CAUSE! I don't want to buy crappy stuff or get crappy stuff for "free".....I just want my money to do some good! I want 100% of what I give to go for whatever cause I decide to donate for. Is that too much to ask? GRRRRRRRRRR~! Thank you for letting me rant. 
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02-28-04, 03:47 PM (EST)
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27. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
LAST EDITED ON 02-28-04 AT 04:03 PM (EST)I feel the same way as you Mandy. The one I'm most angry with at this time is the Humane Society. I receive some stupid little cheap "gift" in the mail at least once a month. A cheap little camera, a cheap watch, coffee mugs, etc. etc. This infuriates me. Sadly, they won't get my money because of the waste. I've found other animal rights charities that spend their money more wisely. I always check out charitynavigator.org to see what percentage charities are spending their money on actual programs. It's been helpful to me. I can only imagine how upset you must be having been so involved in the charity only to see them wasting the money.
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Wheezy 9153 desperate attention whore postings
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02-28-04, 08:10 PM (EST)
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34. "RE: Random thoughts about door-to-door saleschildren." |
Whoa. Did you just say frozen pretzels? Wheeze
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