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Didn't they circumvent the law by giving it away and having a Donations jar? Smart young ladies.
I love american entrepreneurship... I bet she makes a bundle ... let's hope enough for college.. maybe she could be president and reign in big bureaucracy
I love american entrepreneurship... I bet she makes a bundle ... let's hope enough for college.. maybe she could be president and reign in big bureaucracy
When my son was young I helped him load up his little Red Wagon and go mobile selling Lemonade to all the men out mowing their yards on Saturday morning.
The kid is very successful today and quite the salesman.
We ran a trivia night fundraiser to buy an air conditioner for our community center. We could not actually charge admission (teams donated $10/person to play, but could play for free if they wanted). We could not run any raffles or other side contests that were games of chance. We had to have a notarized list of acceptable answers for the "game of skill" portion (e.g. the trivia).
We were not allowed to give away or sell any drinks or food (even for free we would have needed a health inspection). We could not make cups available (because if anyone poured alcohol in those cups, we were bootlegging).
And here is where it gets weird. Some members of our community do not like the community center; they want it to be a private membership club rather than a community center open to everyone. So, they opposed putting in the air conditioner. They called the health department on us. They called the cops on us.... eight times. They called the ATF and I had to have an interview with an ATF investigator to make sure we were not bootlegging! (He apologized to me profusely. And said he really wished he was allowed to give me the name of the person who complained.)
Of course, we weren't cute little girls with a lemonade stand. We were just a group of people trying to help our community who did follow all of the rules, while the police and health department had to do their job and be the middlemen for the anonymous people who wanted to harass us.
Oh come on, now! These are little girls! It warms my heart that they care so much about dad to do something like this! I would have bought some from them, and enjoyed it very much just based off of the principle.
Very True... Maybe I can get my Son to Get me a WaterPark Ticket.... For Fathers Day...
My kids have started buying presents for me that they want. So the drill is that I get to have it for a bit and then the one who got me the present will say, 'Hey Dad, if you're not using that ___________ can I have it?" Then it disappears to whichever house.
My oldest son has mentioned he'd like to have a heads up prior to my buying a new shotgun, books or music so he can decide if the purchase is "appropriate".
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