if i never...
see another High School Musical branded product in my house again it will be too soon. Sigh, I have to put this out into the ether so I can get it out of my craw.
These are the baskets I assembled for Logan's school's fall festival PTA basket auction last week. They have a combined approximate value of $240 (not including the sweet-ass homecoming mums and inventory sheets I made to top them off...because those, those are priceless). Apparently all the baskets for all the grades brought in about half of the actual cash values when the auctions were all said and done. This absolutely ASTOUNDS me. I don't know about the rest of the homeroom moms, but, save for a few very generous families, I practically had to hang parents upside down from their ankles and give them a good shake to get them to donate money toward these fing baskets. After all that time and effort on my part and generosity on the parents' part the PTA essentially went and threw half that money away. Never mind the time it took me and everyone else who assembled baskets or the time spent by the moms who volunteered to do the shopping for the baskets or the chairperson's time. Talk about first class counter productivity (or as Lynn declares: a first class circle jerk). All I can say is never again. Never again!
To be clear, I think the PTA serves an excellent purpose and I am more than happy to donate my dollars and even my time (when I'm not ambushed into volunteering), but when I see donated dollars being poorly managed it gives me pause. Next year I won't be donating toward baskets...if anything we'll make a direct donation to the PTA. Ugh.
These are the baskets I assembled for Logan's school's fall festival PTA basket auction last week. They have a combined approximate value of $240 (not including the sweet-ass homecoming mums and inventory sheets I made to top them off...because those, those are priceless). Apparently all the baskets for all the grades brought in about half of the actual cash values when the auctions were all said and done. This absolutely ASTOUNDS me. I don't know about the rest of the homeroom moms, but, save for a few very generous families, I practically had to hang parents upside down from their ankles and give them a good shake to get them to donate money toward these fing baskets. After all that time and effort on my part and generosity on the parents' part the PTA essentially went and threw half that money away. Never mind the time it took me and everyone else who assembled baskets or the time spent by the moms who volunteered to do the shopping for the baskets or the chairperson's time. Talk about first class counter productivity (or as Lynn declares: a first class circle jerk). All I can say is never again. Never again!
To be clear, I think the PTA serves an excellent purpose and I am more than happy to donate my dollars and even my time (when I'm not ambushed into volunteering), but when I see donated dollars being poorly managed it gives me pause. Next year I won't be donating toward baskets...if anything we'll make a direct donation to the PTA. Ugh.
posted by Amy at 8:04 PM
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