10 Reasons You Should at Least Consider Our School’s Fundraiser

This is not a sponsored post.  This is me blatantly using my blog, and social media to help my daughter with her school fundraiser campaign.  Please do not feel any obligation to participate.

My daughter, Megan had only been in school two days before they sent home this year’s fundraiser.  Most people hear school fundraiser and close their doors, suddenly go deaf, start filing bankruptcy, or just flat out say No Thanks.  Our school does it a bit different.  Enough so that I am writing about it online, where the entire internet can read it.  Why is our fundraiser different?

10 Reasons You Should Consider Buying from Our Fundraiser.

10) We are selling magazine subscriptions and not overpriced ugly wrapping paper.
Our school works with a company that offers over 700 magazines.  Titles such as People, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Seventeen, Highlights, and Nat Geo Kids just to list a few.  They offer something for everyone.

9) They are priced up to 90% below newsstand prices.
In this economy, magazines are  among the first things that have to go in order to save money.  We are offering you those same magazines at a huge discounted price.  People has always been an expensive magazine, through this fundraiser, they offer up to 6 free issues with a subscription and up to 50% discount.  You can subscribe to Time up to 92% less than newsstand prices.  Entertainment Weekly? 93% off.

8) Most magazines offer you a choice of number of issues.
Maybe you don’t want a full year, maybe you want the subscription for your college student and only want six months.  Or maybe you want to lock in this price for two years.  Most magazines will offer you a second year subscription for a minimal price.  Real Simple, one year (12 issues) is $24, but add an additional 6 months (18 issues) for $30.  The first 12 are $2 an issue, the additional 6 are a buck a piece.  Either way, that is still up to 66% off the cover price.  A one year subscription of Golf magazine is $16, but a two year subscription is only $20, a whole second year for only four additional dollars.

7) They offer Combinations of magazines as well.
They also take similar magazines, group them together and offer them for one low price.  Every year I get us the Self/Glamour magazine combo.  This year they are offering that duo, a one year subscription of each, for $20.  That is less than $1.00 an issue.  For the guys out there, they offer a combination of Golf (12 monthly issues) and Sports Illustrated (56 weekly issues) for $39.  The newsstand price for both of those combined for a full year? $339.  (There’s your 90% savings)

6) You can renew any existing subscriptions you have now at these low discounted prices.
Already subscribed to a magazine? No problem, you can order it here through our school and it will start once your current subscription expires.  Order the subscription, mark that it’s a renewal, and they will let your magazine know your subscription has been renewed.

5) They make great gifts for that hard to buy for person in your life.
We all have that person in our life that truly has everything, needs nothing, and refuses to give you any idea of what they would like for a birthday or for Christmas.  Get them a subscription to a magazine of their favorite hobby, their favorite sport, whatever they may be interested.  Just fill out the order, have the magazine mailed to the recipient’s address, and you’re done.

4) Now they offer subscriptions for your tablet. 
Not all subscriptions are offered ad digital subscriptions yet.  There are some very popular titles that are.  Titles such as Car and Driver, Good Housekeeping, Popular Photography, Outdoor life and Redbook just to name a few.  They also offer the one year or two year options.  On top of this, there are print magazines that include access to the tablet edition with your subscription.  Those include magazines such as Better Homes & Garden, Fitness, Martha Stewart Living, Men’s Fitness, Parents and more.

3) The money raised is used to help enrich the students learning experiences.
We are in a small small small school district.  Our graduating class last year was 47 students strong.  Our entire K-12 all go to school under one roof.  So anything extra that our school needs or wants is funded by fundraisers. This year the money will fund educational field trips for the classes. One will be to the St. Charles courthouse, it helps pay for the 8th grade graduation trip to Six Flags, and they are going to use some of the funds to buy things for the middle school science lab so they can blow shit up. (that’s not a direct quote from the school)

2) You can place your order online
There will be no hard sell here.  In fact this will be the hardest sales pitch you’ll ever hear from me.  I hate selling.  I’ve been told I would be great at it.  I hate it.  But I love my daughters and I love the school they are in.  And this fundraiser is something that people won’t mind spending money on because maybe they already do.  It can be done online, it’s very easy and quick to do.  It is secure, and your privacy is respected.  Megan will only know that [insert your name here] bought x number of magazines.  We will not know which ones, (they do not offer Playboy, Hustler, or Playgirl, Or Cosmo for that matter) or how long your subscription is.  She gets credit for subscriptions sold, not dollars raised.

1) If you order online, you can save me from having to clean up cat puke and I will love you forever.
If you would please include Megan’s school number 753939 and her student ID number 22CL3A2 she will get credit for each sale.  Also, that increases her odds of winning some prize that isn’t one of those dorky cheap toys that everyone loses two days after the get home.  Or the cats eat them, and then there’s a huge nasty mess I get stuck cleaning up.

How Do You Order?

Go to www.gaschoolstore.com where you can search by title, or just browse the titles offered.  Be sure to check out any two for one offers they may have as well.

Megan’s School ID is 753939 which will get you to our school store and will guarantee all orders will be credited to our school.

Megan’s Student ID is 22CL3A2 be sure to enter this so that she gets credit for any subscriptions you may order. Again the more subscriptions the better the prize she can choose and less likely I will have to cleaning up cat puke.

I don’t pimp out products, or services, or companies, or anything really, unless I use it, believe in it, and think it would be beneficial or useful to my readers.  I don’t sell out just to make a buck, even for my girls and their school.  I can honestly say I am not embarrassed to offer this fundraiser to people, because it is something that a lot of people, it’s not overpriced and there isn’t a hard in-your-face sell. Again, if you buy a subscription (or three) online, the school is notified only of your name and the number of subscriptions bought, the total amount of the sale, and the student who gets credit.  The school will never see your address, nor will I or Megan.  All of your information is confidential.

The things they teach, and need to teach in school these days

I am now a stay-at-home-mom against my will.  That is to say, I am a SAHM but it was not my first career choice.  Honestly, I am a DHAJBALSIAHALM. That is Don’t Have A Job But Actively Looking So I Am Home A Lot Mom for those of you not really good with acronyms. 

So I’m home, before the girls leave for school, when the girls get home from school.  My house is clean. I am actually cooking dinners that are more than Hamburger Helper and peanut butter and jelly.  I’m a real Betty Crocker.  If Betty Crocker drank margaritas.*  Although I’m thinking of switching to wine, it’s cheaper and faster (Don’t have to mix wine, just open a bottle, pour, drink =happiness)

Now that I’m home the girls think they can take full advantage of that.  Pfft, as if.  The other day, Meredith texts me “I’m in gym class, but I forgot my hat for cheer practice after school, can you bring it to me?” Well no, no I can’t. I just opened a bottle of wine.  I wanted to teach her a lesson in responsibility, but I caved.  You know because I want her to be ‘that cheerleader’ who has the ‘cool mom’.  It’s all about images in high school people. Don’t you remember?

Today, Megan told me she has a science project due next week.  Fine, I remember these projects, Meredith did them 3 years ago.  Megan has to make a model of a cell (an animal cell, not jail).  It has to be have all the parts, and labeled and be neat and creative.  Apparently, Megan’s idea of creative is to make this model cell out of ~drum roll please~ JELL-O. ** Later this year she will have to make a model of a pyramid.  Yes, she’s already said she wants to make it out of sugar cubes, or caramels, or marshmallows. 

WTF?

She comes by it honestly, because of all the kid in her class, there will be a solid 25% of them that make their models out of some sort of food product.  Now, it would be one thing if they turned the model in, and then got to bring it home (or eat it), but these models will be on display in the hallway, for a week.

A WEEK.

Maggots anyone?

I hope in biology they teach the kids about the 6 senses; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, and Common. 

*I don’t drink nearly as much as I talk about it, because I have bi-polar disorder. I don’t have alcohol in my house, it’s too tempting.

**When I Googled Cell model from Jello, I find maybe she’s not so crazy, but still…it’s food. In the hall. At school. Full of kids. For a week. That just screams EWWWW