Parents: Do you find it painful or embarassing to ask your friends and cowokers to buy stuff when your child's school asks you to sell for their fundraisers?

Parents: Do you find it painful or embarassing to ask your friends and cowokers to buy stuff when your child's school asks you to sell for their fundraisers?
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I don’t have kids and I doubt very much that I would bother people with it if I did.
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