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Jun 13, 2018    |       20 comments

School Sports Cost & Fundraisers

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Well, the BAD community was right again! Princess public high school volleyball team is going to cost a required $300 to the school, and other “optional” equipment costs.

Cost to Play Public School Sports

The $300 price tag is broken down into two parts:

  1. $150 – Required Volleyball kit which includes Nike shoes (retail for $110,) Nike team warm up with school emblem embroidered on it and two uniform jerseys. (All of which we get to keep after the season is over.)
  2. $150 – to pay for game dates, referees, etc.

There are 37 girls on this team. The school is collecting $11,100 for a season that last just under 2 months. Holy cow!

Evidently this is the same way other sports work. (The volleyball coach also coaches the soccer team.)

This blows my mind. The parents pay for the uniforms, the parents pay for the referees…I confirmed with my parents that when I played sports in high school this was not the case. The school provided the uniform (and kept them after the season, etc.)

Princess Serving

School Sport Fundraisers

The coach did say the girls will participate in three fundraisers to raise the funds BEFORE the parents must kick in. That’s at least a partial release.

Currently, these are the fundraisers they propose (evidently must be approved by the school board first:)

  • Co-ed volleyball tournament – $5 per player with prizes handed out to first and second place team.
  • Selling donuts – I’m guessing Krispy Kreme, have seen this one done for lots of local organizations.
  • Selling something else – Ugh!

I am so not a fan of these types of fundraisers. Princess sold chocolate bars for the theater department this last semester, what a pain. And I’m still not sure what all that work and effort was for!

I am grateful for the chance to raise some of the money, but I really wish there were other options. Have your children had to do fundraisers for school? How do you feel about them?

Jun 12, 2018    |       20 comments

Alternative Ways to Make More Money

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The number one way to get out of debt is to spend less than you make, and for me, that means, I must make more money!

My steady clientele is slowly growing. My plan is to contract out 30 hours per week to a stable of clients. These leaves me with 10-20 hours a week for project work and additional hours from clients.

In addition, I’ve been looking for “side hustles” to make some extra money. No MLMs or things like that, been there, failed at that.

This is what I have come up with so far. Do you have any ideas to add?

Side Hustles

  1. Sell items I have around the house we no longer need or use.
  2. Selling crafts created from supplies we have on hand.
  3. Making and selling homemade dog food. (This is a new idea after hearing about a need here locally.)
  4. Selling the soap I make here at home, again with supplies I have on hand.
  5. Substitute teaching when school starts back up. (I have already applied, but haven’t heard anything yet.)

I am specifically looking for opportunities that cost no money, use things already have on hand, are not tied to my consulting business and are not labor intensive.

I’ve also been given the opportunity to work as a commission based salesperson for a local friends company. She is going to split the profit for any sales I make, giving me 90% and she will keep 10%.

More on that opportunity soon…

What other ideas do you have for me? Do you have a side hustle that you love?

 

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