There weren't too many little girls on my street (all my neighborhood friends were boys), so I had the GS cookie market cornered my one year of being in Brownies. I had to do the door-to-door thing for all of my various fundraisers; my parents never took things into work to sell. CCD chocolate, junior-high band oranges and grapefruit, high school raffle tickets--I sold them all.
My sophomore year, the nuns at the high school finally figured out the best incentive to get us to sell the tickets. Every year, our all-girls school would shut down for two weeks and they'd send us over to our brother school for half-day classes while they converted our school building for the big fundraiser into a quasi-showplace (several small nightclubs out of various classrooms, food and drinks out of other classrooms, and the gym became a big showroom complete with a big band which I was in my freshman year and ersatz showgirls). The boys school had a very lax clothes policy (no t-shirts, jeans permitted), but we girls had the full-on Catholic school uniform, plaid pleated skirts and Peter Pan collared shirts, no gym shoes allowed.
Well, for raffle ticket incentives, the nuns told us we could wear jeans during that Jubilation period if we sold 20 over our quota. That was the first year ever in which they went over quota, and almost every girl was wearing jeans that March.
OMG y'all - my current neighborhood has a couple of online group thingies, a yahoo group that is mostly family focused and a site someone built themselves that is more general neighborhood/commercially focused, both are just really good places to find out about new businesses, get a recommendation for services, update about issues (people report crimes, trash problems..), sell or give-away items - there are occasional blow-ups, but no big deal.
I went on yahoo groups looking for a similar group in the area I am moving to, mostly all I found were recycle/freecycle groups - nice but not really what I was looking for. Then I found one called (area name) Moms - not so inclusive, but the description said SAHM and Working moms and seemed ok. BUT, you knew this was coming, it is a moderated and closed group, so when I said I was interested in joining I was sent 2 emails. The first is a set of RULES - you have to post at least once a week, you have to attend an event within a certain tiem of joining, responding to polls is MANDATORY. There is more, but CRAZY. I think I may start a group called (area name) families just to see if it would take off.
I have always been able to get in the supermarkets something that sounds like a Mallowmar, a cookie type base, marshmallow fluff on top, dipped in dark chocolate. My Google-fu is failing me, but I could go to my supermarket right now and find it in the cookie aisle. They're called Whirlwinds under one brand, and I could have sworn Keebler had another type. Or it's Nabisco.
Re Paeleo diet: Buncha wimps. Someone following a REAL paleolithic diet would have termite grubs in that meat locker! Plus bear liver for that overdose-of-vitamin-A high!
I ordered a bunch of meat from Omaha Steaks (I had a coupon, don't judge me (no, go ahead and judge, it's the only way I'll learn)), and it just arrived. Freezer tetris has ensued.
Didn't paleolithic humans live to be about 30? Why are we trying to replicate that lifestyle again?
Umm if you got good meat at good prices I guess the judgement is "you are awesome". I mean you are not claiming to eat a caveman or cavelady diet...
maybe the hipsters will start dying younger?
