Best answer; really need money management help for 14 year old who wants to go on a cruise?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Ok so my dancing school is finally offering me and my class to go on their every-few-year dance vacation/field trip. This year, we’d be going on a cruise for 7 nights in the summer, and it’s onlyyyy $750 with everything included! I need $50 by the end of the week to give them to guarantee a spot. My mom’s being unreasonable and won’t pay for me, but the dancing school has fundraisers (listed below). I need $150 by the middle of february, march, april, and $250 by the middle of may.
(Note: at the top it says it is possible for a student to earn their whole fee, but they must work really hard. I’m willing to do all these, but I’m wondering if it’s possible?)
1. Candy selling- must be case of 72 candy bars upfront for $72, and people pay a dollar for one. For every box sold you get $36 (I’m willing to go to like Walmart or something and sit there selling candy, my family will buy some, and maybe my mom will let me go door to door).
2. Dance-a-thon- I get sponsors and donations and on a certain, we’ll have a dance-a-thon (like a walk-a-thon pretty much) and dance for 4 hours.
3. Talent show-Students that help receive a portion of the fundraiser towards the trip (but I don’t know how much I’ll get, because who knows how many people will show up and how many people will help out).
4.At our recital at the end of the school year, students who help wrap and sell flowers and balloons get money towards their trip(again, I don’t know how much I’ll get).
5. There will be a raffle at the recital and the money will be split between girls who help out.
6. Each student must get at LEAST 5 business cards to advertise in the recital program-the cost is $40 for the business, and we get $30 ($10 goes to printing program). I don’t know if I can do this because maybe my dad will for his business, but I’ll need at least 4 more (and only for our town). I don’t know anyone else with a business at all, and I guess I could ask around… but any other suggestions? I’ll make at least $150 on this!
Ok sorry that’s long, but I really need help. Everyone in my class is going and it’d be so fun and I’d miss out on all the cool stuff we’d be doing. I can’t get a job even with a permit for 14 year olds because my mom doesn’t want me to get dropped off somewhere… I was going to ask her if I could maybe do some around the house stuff though? And although some of this stuff is like for the recital in june, I could always take money from my bank account, and then put back the money I earn (but I really want to get all my money back, but I guess if I had to I’d pay I’d pay $100 maximum.) If i decide I don’t want to do it in the middle, I get my money back besides the $50 I need by the end of the week to reserve my spot.
PLEASE HELP! BEST ANSWER! This took me forever to type but this just means so much to me!
