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Originally Posted by Galactic_Phantom
Has anyone been a cadet?
Can anyone tell me why for all these years they endure the elements, no matter how cold or hot, in their uniforms to accept donations in front of supermarkets?
Not that it is my concern, and I don't mean to rude or insulting in any way, but I'm just curious, instead of standing outside with a can, could they not expend their efforts to other fundraising activities?
Could they not wash cars or have a bake sale instead? It seems much more effective than standing all day for getting nickels and dimes
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I was in army cadets through high school and fundraising outside is no different than girl guides selling cookies outside a supermarket and usually they're only there for a few hours. There's more traffic from standing in a populated area than there is hoping that people are hungry or have a car to wash which can take a bit of time and take several people at once. IF they had a car wash and you were to go to it how much would you donate? 5...10$? sit there for 10 minutes and have 5-6 kids rushing through washing it and probably resulting in you going home and re washing it yourself, or take 40 kids and scatter them around entrances to super markets/malls and have hundreds of people walk past them donating 25c to 2$ at a time.
It's the uniforms that get people. Some of the guys were in cadets with me moved on to enlisting in the army and are now 10+ years in making the army their full time job. Some people see those kids and it gets to them because they may know a family member or a friends child/parent who has served and it melts their hearts thinking those kids could be the ones guarding you one day.