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November 21, 2024 13 mins
We discuss kids fundraisers with some callers... should we just donate money or buy stuff?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, I'll be the first to admit that double good popcorn, yeah,
that you're selling for your kids fundraisers. It's really great popcorn.
It's pretty damn good right now, it's very good. Well,
you know, each kernel costs five dollars, basically true. So
double good popcorn is one of the many things that
parents are selling for their kids for their fundraisers, fundraisers

(00:27):
for band camp or for trips or for you know whatever.
And it's all good stuff. And I'm not complaining or
bitching about the fact that, you know, they need to
raise money, just send kids to do these great things
that provide fantastic enrichment for the kids.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
But after a while, especially when you're scary and all
your friends have kids, and of course he has no kids.
He doesn't even have a plant exactly. Yeah, So he
gets all these requestments his friends saying I need a
one hundred dollars for this bag of popcorn, I need
eighty dollars for these cook ease, these candy bar.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It adds up and after a.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
While you're like, no, So your friends recently put you
on a group chat right, asking everyone in the group
chat to provide money for this this popcorn sale, right.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
And I try to stay silent and wait, and then
after two or three guys jumped in, Everyone's like, we're scary.
He's always first to respond to things. Oh we're asking
for money, ha ha. So I'm like, okay, you got it.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Let me hand you my money. And I bought like
a whole got the value pack of all the variety
of this double good stuff which they strong armed you into. Yeah,
which is fine because I always give to my kids,
my friend's kids all the time. But I have no
use for it. I live alone. So I wind up
spending one hundred bucks. And then I get the popcorn
and I just bring it into the radio station for

(01:44):
everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, Nate seems to be enjoying the popcorn.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Very good.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm glad you dropped one hundred dollars so I could
have a snack.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Daniel is it good? Daniel is all right. So go
to line nineteen. Let's start to Kelly. Kelly the popcorn fundraiser.
What are your thoughts? Are you in?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You out?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:08):
I'm I always support it. My nephew gets does this
every year. But I hate the popcorn fundraiser. It's so
extensive and you get these tiny little snack bags that
only left they're only for one person.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
They're so good.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, that's my problem. If the bags were bigger.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Sixty dollars for three bags of popcorn that look like
you know, like you said, the snack bag, that's a rip.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's but what they do is they justify by saying, well,
it's for the kids. Keep in mind you, well, no,
it's also for the popcorn companies that's selling it. So
but you you're a parrot, right, you have three kids
and they're involved in all sorts of sports, so I
know you have to do your fair share of fundraising
as well.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Do you get embarrassed?

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Me?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
How do you feel when you have to put that
out there? Because if you don't participate and the other
moms find out that you're not doing your your job,
then you you feel a little guilty, right.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
I do, But I you know, I just put it
out there. I'll usually put it on social media, and
if you want it, you want it. If you don't,
it's fine, but then I'll always support their kids. So
that's where you know that thinks are scary, like you
don't have you know you're not getting it back. You know,
you're just supporting everybody else.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
But you know, I'm Outbudy' just handing out the money.

Speaker 7 (03:27):
Next, what kind of a fundraiser can we have for
scary breakfast?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, scary get free breakfast all the time.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Listen, but wait a minute, go back to something else, now, Kelly,
let's say, let's let's think about one of your kids
and there they put what hockey? I mean, I don't know.
Give me a sports that they raise money.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
For baseball and basketball?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay, baseball, okay, baseball. One of your kids is playing baseball.
You need to raise money for whatever. Now, if you
sell like popcorn, they only get a percentage of the sales, right, right, Okay,
I guess let's.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
Just say with a pop quin, I've never done that
one I do. We always do like a cooler of
cheer is a good one, and.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right, it doesn't matter what it is.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm just wondering that what percentage of the of the
money coming in from your friends goes to the actual
baseball team.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Well, if it's something like the cooler, it's one hundred
percent because okay, we buy the cooler. We we every
family donates a bottle of alcohol and then it's one
hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Okay, your kids, so you got Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm one of like focus in on specifically these companies
that are they will take some of the proceeds to
pay for the product, and they make money too. Write
My question is, wouldn't it be better if we just
round it up or rounded out and I just gave
you a donation rather than having to buy the popcorn?
And you know, I mean, can I just do that?
Isn't that more lucrative?

Speaker 7 (04:58):
I think that would be that I just did that
for somebody's fundraiser. I think it was for Scotty Bee's daughter.
You could buy whatever it was they were selling, or
they said if you just donated the money, they would
get more of the money for I'd rather do that,
So that's what I did, and.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Said, I mean, Nate will be pissed off because he
doesn't get free popcorn.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
Yeah, I think I just ate four dollars worth of this. Yeah, yeah,
Scotty what the popcorn is? Fifty percent? I'm looking at
the website right now.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
And okay, so you need this popcorn. In this situation,
they get fifty off of fifty percent, and then the
team gets fifty per correct.

Speaker 8 (05:29):
And do you know what I've sold you guys in
the last two years. You got wrapping paper, popcorn, cookie
dough discount cards for a town you don't live in.
And I think you own a softball field by my house.
I bought it, Kelly, Kelly, I bought a softball field.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I love.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (05:44):
I told her I've done though, no more, I'm not
doing it anymore.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well I'm not doing anymore either. Now, don't get mad
at me. I'm not I'm not buying any more anymore anything.
But I will donate money though, Kelly. So I'm not
that awful of a guy. Thank you for listening to
is Kelly and all the best in this holiday season.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Thank you. I have another Kelly line eighteen. She hates
the fundraisers. Yeah, you're so much. Listen to that.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
So Kelly's sister in law has us buy these T
shirts for the softball team. And it's a difference. They
joined teams every season. There's a new T shirt every season, right, Well.

Speaker 9 (06:19):
Yeah, but I thought that because it was a travel team.
She'd stay on it for a couple of years, and
now we've got this T shirt for twenty five bucks
for team she doesn't even play for anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, What are you gonna do?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
What are you gonna do with that came on it
and all that nothing?

Speaker 9 (06:34):
It just sits in my closet.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, you wash the car with it? You know.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's like, okay, well, so what if you just donated money?
Would your sister and all have a problem with that?

Speaker 9 (06:44):
I don't think so. I think that would be a
way better option instead of, you know, just wasting all
of the the shirts that I'm never gonna use.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, ye, all right, Kelly, enjoy all those shirts. I'm
sure you're like five deep already and don't know what
to do them. Donate them. There's someone else that they
can wear them. Thanks for listening to us, Kelly. So,
if you're a parent, I kind of got to this earlier.
Is there pressure? Is there guilt? Is there a level
of guilt if you don't if you don't perform?

Speaker 7 (07:13):
I never did you guys, remember, I don't think. I
think maybe there was one time I ever sent you
guys anything. I never ever bothered you guys to donate
to my kids stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I just didn't. I don't know. I think I felt
guilty asking you all for money.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
The thing is good, have lost the art of selling
stuff because the parents do everything. You just send links
out door to door and sell calendars anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's dangerous. You're not going to go door to door
anymore like you used to when we were kids.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Depending on where you live.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, yeah, true, but you know, you just never know.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Joe Ane Line twenty Remember when I went off on
the Girl Scouts. I mean I went on a tirade.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
He was not good. Hello joe Anne, okay try nineteen.
Hello joe Anne, good morning? Oh is this joe Anne?

Speaker 5 (08:01):
This is okay?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Good.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
So you guys are selling something sort of unique for
the fundraiser.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
What are you selling?

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, so we live in Maryland and we sell soft
shell crabs.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh different, okay.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
No no wait wait wait is that different? Why is
that different?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know because I've never heard anybody selling that.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
And we tried the double good, we did the cooler raffle.
We we did like a fundraiser with honey bags hand.
But it's like you were saying, if we the studio
puts up a certain amount, right, and we buy the
crabs wholesale because somebody knows the guy. So for us,
we just stand outside of the grocery store. They let

(08:47):
us do it, and we tell all of our friends
and family like, you want to help the girls, come
and buy the crabs, and it makes like thirty dollars.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay, all right, but look at loo. See now we
are part of the problem here. We're oh popcorn, smopcorn,
oh soft shell crab.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
But they also cut.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
Out the middleman and they do it. It's going to
cost us less money. Yeah, the company's not involved.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
They know a guy.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
You're even not a shill for the company trying to
make their boost their profits.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Right, that's all this is is you're just a salesperson
for your company. It's true.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
So okay, so now we're like, now I'm in I
would so I would happily support your crab fundraiser.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Of course they're alive. They have to be alive.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
They're alive rides, they're love crabs by dead crabs.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Sitting there in.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Front of a grocery store with a big bucket of
live crabs. Yes, why are you laughing? But why are
you laughing? Well, I think it's just I've never seen that.
I mean, can I pick out my individual crab? Is
it buy the crab or buy the.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well there's soft show. You usually buy more than one.
You buy like a like a dozen and a half dozen. Yeah,
do you know anything about crab? I really don't actually
know much about crabs. I know the one crab you
can eat the claw, right, know, you eat a shop show,
you eat the whole thing. Go ahead and say what
you wanted to say, Joan.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
So when you come up, it's male or female? Right,
and then you can buy a dozens or an entire bushel.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, wait, I'm going to different prices. Why male or female?
Does one taste better than the other.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
So some people don't like to deal with the like
female parts because you have.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
To pick it out, I.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Think, And keep in mind in the year twenty twenty
four into twenty twenty five, we need to you know,
my crab identifies as a here issue. You know, I'm
going to make sure they're cool there. But you know what, see, Look,
you living in Maryland and you know crabs. Crabs are
a thing there. It's like pizza in New York, right,
I mean it's not unusual. I love that. See, I

(11:07):
would happily I would happily support your kids and.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Whatever they're doing. Like what do they do? What do
they do with this money they're going out on?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Are they getting like a trip to like do the
deadliest catch up there in the Bay.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
No, So it pays for their entire competition season, So
I don't have to do double good or you know,
car washes or whatever. We do it one day in
the summer, we bang it out and that pace for
the entire studio for the year. You got it right,
costumes their fees, right, Like, I don't have time for that.
I ain't got no time. So I am going to

(11:44):
sell all the crabs.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now. See here's what's really great. Very smart. You're a smart,
smart person, Joanne. You know your audience. You're in Maryland,
they eat crab, but I mean daily basically you know
your audience and you and you cut out the middleman.
You do in a smart way, like you know a
guy who sells soft show crabs. You got it all
figured out. See, we would happily happily support you if we.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Were in Maryland. So we're not.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I mean here, Eric, we we do. We do bagels,
all right, Joanne, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
We appreciate it. Bagels, Yeah, we sell bagels.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
I would stand outside of grocery store and sell like
bagels or pizza.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Would it does know your audience, all right, I think
we've come up. Hey, we've come upon something smart. Scotty, Scotty.
From now on, you got to sell Long Island stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I could definitely do bagels.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
For sure, Bagels, Grandma pizza. That's big out there, absolutely.
And corn corn that's it, bags of corn.

Speaker 8 (12:48):
Elvis.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
You could get it from the stand for cheap, and
then we could resell it and make more money for
whatever it is we're making the money for.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Exactly in Miami, I'd send up to stand up front
and sell cafo here, some caffeine. Let me wake you
up there, you go for the Girl Scouts of America,
all right,

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