Unicef too frugal for it's own good? "Trick-or-Treat for Unicef"

     

On the Unicef site  it says they are refusing to mail out the Orange
"Trick-or-Treat for Unicef" boxes to children this year.  Instead you have to
either drive (in our case) 20 miles to an overpriced Pier One Imports store or
you have to download and print (who the hell can afford color ink cartridges?) a
flier and then find something to glue it to and use that as your box.

They say it cost's them too much to mail out just one box.  We sent $38.00 to
Unicef that we collected in our orange box last year.  They don't save any money
be refusing to mail us a box.

I guess they don't want poor families to trick or treat for Unicef anymore.
They only want families that can afford computers and color printers or who can
afford to shop and drive to Pier One imports.

Yes I could go to the library and print it up for 20 cents and then try to find
a tube or what ever to use but it's just not the same and not as nice as having
the iconic orange box.  I'm sure that people will be more trusting that it is
truly a Unicef fund raiser you are doing when you have the actual box too.

http://www.unicefusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=hkIXLdMRJtE&b 06891

 

Is there NOTHING that isn't commercialized anymore?  I think this
trick-or-treat for charity bullshit should be outlawed.  It's bad enough
that we have lots of little kids going door to door in late October . . .
who the fuck decided it was a good idea to turn them into a prepubescent
revenue collecting Army all of a sudden?  I don't care if it's for charity,
it is fucking with the spirit of a major holiday.  Any Unicef boxes end up
on my property, and everybody in the group will be escorted off the
property.  I barely tolerate the trick-or-treaters.  I do NOT tolerate
solicitors, even if they are 8 years old and in a cute costume.  -Dave

 forth :

I'm in my 40s and recall quite clearly collecting for UNICEF as a teen
instead of going "trick-or-treating".  It isn't a new idea.  If you
don't like it you don't have to drop any spare change in the box.

Asshole.

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 On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:51:05 -0400, in misc.consumers.frugal-living "Mike T."


I give them a buck, been doing it that way for years.  I thought most of the
money went to the cookie factory.  I sold A LOT of the cookies when I was a
scout and I know how little the troop gets.

 
Mindlessly silly. There's plenty of mandated stuff thats perfectly legal,
most obviously with convicted criminals who dont get jail time.


It aint slave training either.