'I get a knock on the door. It's the neighbor's mom...holding a receipt': Entitled parent insists neighbor pay for bake sale, neighbor agrees and brings receipts

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 19, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

Sometimes on a warm afternoon, the local kids will hold a bake sale. Maybe in your neighborhood they sell lemonade and chocolate chip cookies, and in others, kids sell baked goods, like breads or slices of bundt cakes. 

Of course, lemonade is a bit easier to make than baked goods. So parents might volunteer help out with that part. It's really sweet to see kids get excited about being little businesspeople for a day as they sit outside and play store keeper. Plus, if you live in a bustling area with lots of foot traffic, the kiddos may even turn a profit! Well, it'll be a profitable endeavor if they don't have to pay for the ingredients they used. 

This person told the tale of a neighbor who actually did want to be reimbursed from her and the OP's kids' shared bake sale. The only issue is that the neighbor's son left halfway through the day. He didn't want to do all the work, but still wanted the share of the profits he thought was fair. Once the parents get involved, well… you'll have to read this person's malicious compliance story to find out what happened next. 

Up next, this guy kept getting pulled over by police officers enforcing the speed limit, so they decided to go exactly the speed limit. 

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  • 01
    Font - You want to make things fair? I'll show you fair. M OC A couple of weeks ago my kids and their neighbors decided to have a bake sale. We live in a tourist area with high foot traffic, and the kids make a killing. I tell the kids I ought to charge them for the labor
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  • 02
    Font - (I said I'd help bake) and ingredients so they learn the concept of net gains, but instead I'll donate to their cause, and just to bring me back the money I lent them to make change. I love seeing the kids be entrepreneurial, work so hard, and get so excited at their success.
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  • 03
    Font - After a couple of hours, the neighbor's son decides he's bored and wants to go home, so he tells my kid, "when you're done, come by and deliver half the money."
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  • 04
    Font - Mine says, "hey, that's not fair, if you're leaving we should split the money now." Mind you, the bulk of their sales was my baking.
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  • 05
    Font - Neighbor kid gets super pi but mine sticks to their guns, they split the money and the kid leaves in a huff. Mine comes in a few hours later, having lugged home all the gear and cleaned up, annoyed that the neighbor kid got annoyed at them. Then I get a knock on the door. It's the neighbor's mom, with the kid, who is still pouting. Mom's holding a receipt.
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  • 06
    Font - Mom explains that they purchased a bunch of stuff for the bake sale, it cost a lot of money, and it's not fair that my kid is making money off their stuff, and that they should be compensated for what they purchased.
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    Font - The receipt lists a bunch of items I immediately see they didn't use (like 2 boxes of cereal, when they used 1, napkins that I'd ended up providing), but whatever. And nevermind that her son went home early and left mine to clean up. And nevermind that I'd been
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  • 08
    Font - churning out batches of cookies all morning. I'm irked they've taken what was a fun, cheerful day of kids making money hand over fist, and shown up at my door making me engage in a super awkward conversation because they assume their kid can't be wrong. So I say, "of course!" and fetch my receipts.
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  • 09
    Font - I sit down and (in front of them, and out loud) calculate the cost of lemonade, and cups used. I calculate the cost of flour, sugar, chocolate chips, vanilla and butter per batch of cookies, multiplied by the number of batches made. I toss in the baking soda for free (so generous). I even subtract the value of leftover cookies.
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  • 10
    Font - Did I mention I made a lot of cookies? The neighbor kid has to fork over $23. They got pretty quiet all of a sudden. I thanked the lady for making sure things were fair, and offered her a plate of cookies to take home. She declined. The end.
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  • 11
    Font - Hobbs54 I, a dad, was the adult for a car wash run by a Figure Skating club, taking place in a parking lot for a mall. After about an hour some of the kids want to go to the food court and get a drink, I said "Sure, just don't forget to come back." Some came back with drinks after a few minutes but the rest were like back in about an hour. I wrote up a
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  • 12
    Font - time sheet of who was where and when and divided up the money collected to whos' bursary would receive what. Some parents were not so happy with me but the coaches were looking at me like I am some dad-superhero.
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  • 13
    Font - CoderJoe1 I'm sure your kids learned plenty from this. We did the same with our kids years ago. Had a yard sale on a hot summer day and our kids opened a refreshment booth. They sold individually wraps snacks bought at Costco, cold soda by the can and lemonade. At the end of the day they made more money than the entire yard sale made.
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  • 14
    Font - BigCaterpillar8001 Did they fork over the 23 bucks? 1.3k Reply Share snortgiggles OP. Yes, yes they did.
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  • 15
    Font - Coo goldenhourbaby This is BEAUTIFUL 611 Reply Share Font_Snob Offering her a plate of cookies to take home was... *chef's kiss*
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  • 16
    Font - vacuousintent Well done! I'd recommend not doing bake sales with them anymore, though. Sounds like you'll have more issues in the future if you do. 1.6k Reply Share snortgiggles OP. Yes, indeed. Probably the first thing I said when I shut the door.
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