I Want Your Money

I'm pretty good at making flyers and newsletters and creative pieces like that. Maybe you've seen some of my work. I take a bit of pride in it. Most of my hours of effort are are given to the moms group at church or the PTO (PTA) at my kids school. Reading this, I really look like the  bake sale SAHM that I am. Sometimes, that feels like nails on a chalkboard getting under my skin but that's a topic for another discussion.

For the last few days, I've been working on a flyer for PTO. Writing it and rewriting it trying to make it compelling. I'm trying to create a flyer to be sent home with all of the kids in the school. The flyer is supposed to encourage parents to come to open house and join PTO. I'm excited about PTO this year because in addition to making flyers and newsletters, I recently added to my resume that I make bumper stickers too!  I created a bumper sticker so that when parents join PTO they are given a "thank you" gift of a free bumper sticker promoting the school. I'm pretty proud of the bumper sticker.

At one point the flyer explained what PTO is and why you should join. Another version appealed to the "get to know the other parents" aspect. Then it was a big promotion for the "free" bumper sticker (which Paul informed me wasn't really free if they were paying to join PTO). Nothing is really working for me.

What I really want to say on this flyer is quite simple:
"People, I want your money. I want your $5. I don't care if you ever come to a meeting or help out with an event. I just want you to give me your money and if you decide to really get involved and help out, that's a bonus. Oh, and by the way, here's your bumper sticker."

You know, that doesn't sound so bad! I think I'll go with it.