we are trying to think of this from all angels as to how it will affect us and the families. Our main issue is taking it away from the kids, but thats more of a guilt thing I believe. But we are taking into account all these issues.
Just a note we don't do this as fund raiser its just been a fun event for the kids. If we do make money its very little. We buy things online at wholesale price and everything is $1. So its very time consuming putting in the time of purchasing all the items, set up, and the 3 days it runs.
Think it speaks to your instincts to stop the Santa shoppe because you feel it is not a good fundraiser for your school in many ways. Maybe you could meet with your board and compare all your fundraisers and events to determine what is working for you and what isn't?
I know none of us are thinking Christmas at this point, but this subject has come up at our PTO in the past months.
The PTO has always had a Santa SHoppe since I don't know and we know it would bother many parents, but I want to hear from any schools who have done this and how it was handled.
Our reasoning is two reasons mainly first the lack of volunteers to organize it we very rarely have outside parents who step up to help with this. It has been the officers "the parents don't have time" It spans 3 days the kids shop during school.
Second reason is that it ties up alot of our money in that we order all the items to sell for the shoppe, but its not recouped until mid December. Which for us is way over $5,000. We only do $1 store items but with 550 kids that adds up fast.
The money is a huge factore our fundraisers are not pulling in what they used to and we don't have that extra padding to help us till the holidays.
What are your thoughts???
Cindy<br />
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