Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> Indeed. The Ever Spectacular 10-year-old in the family brings home
> fund raising catalogues from which, of course, we feel obliged to
> purchase. Absolute utter cr*p. We have to just *comb* through it to
> find something to purchase that isn't complete junk or completely
> useless. I'd far rather just write the school a check and forget the
> charade that we're getting value for the purchase.
>

Yeah, and the school/whatever gets pennies on the dollar. It's a
huge scam. Don't even *think* of donating to police leagues, like
that, it's a SCAM.

nancy