Please stop inviting me to your "party"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, I don't want to go to your overpriced freezer meal, Jewelery, clothing "party". Please just stop. Get a real job of you need the money so badly.

+1

They can't. They have chosen to be SAHMs and fooled themselves into thinking this is a good idea to remain professional and start their own business.

And with a minimal amount of effort, too. They make their money by recruiting others to "join their team". I know a mom who sells R+F and when she is not bragging on FB about how good and smart her kids are she's constantly posting about the designer trinkets she receives for meeting her sales quotas or how happy she is to be part of such an amazing company. It's like a cult.

sounds like a lady i know doing beach body. all her instagram posts are so annoying. and then at once shaming people who have to work and how this enables her to be at home with her children.

[Anonymous]

All the friends I have who do MLM are SAHMs.

The only one I like is Usborne books, as well - to PP's question, I think they are worth it! Really high quality and fun. THey also have sticker books, reusable marker books with mazes, times tables, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know a girl who makes 6 figures doing this. It shocks me but it is hard to judge someone so successful!

Sure she does. How much did she dish out in order to make that? What's her investment? What's sunk into the business? MLM is a pyramid. In order to make 6 figures, you have to pay in first, and forever.

I am not sure what her buyou in was as a Beachbody coach but she has done well with it. Totally not my gig but it works for her.

[Anonymous]

*buy in....silly phone.

[Anonymous]

The part I don't like is that I have a hard time figuring out when these people are really my friends and when they are just trying to sell me stuff.

I had one friend, who was a real friend before this, who suddenly wanted to sell me purses every time we got together. Did that mean we weren't friends any more? Or just that she was trying to add the purses on to the friendship?

What about new people I meet who befriend me on Facebook and invite me to selling parties? Does that mean they want to become friends with me, or just sell me stuff? I suspect the latter in this case, but don't want to snub them if they are just clueless but would like to be real-life friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wrote about this earlier, that I live in an area that mostly SAHM's and military spouses. They live for this stuff. he saddest are the SAHM's whose spouse is living paycheck to paycheck, and their wives are spending money on this crap and claiming they own their own business. One said she felt sorry I had to work full time and not raise my child. I wanted to tell her I felt sorry she was too stupid to realize she's a customer, NOT an employee and definitely NOT a business owner!

This is correct. I was an Estée Lauder employee at the counter for three years. I got an hourly wage (plus 3% commission on every piece sold), free classes twice a year to learn about new techniques and products (I think we may have earned our hourly wage for that, too, but I can't remember anymore), and gratis product twice a year. A colleague of mine who had been working for decades (thirty years?) got a Tiffany vase filled with red roses at her Estée Lauder anniversary. It may have been annoying to open credit cards, but never once did I have to recruit or buy my own inventory or otherwise invest in anything.

[Anonymous]

I am the first person who mentioned Usborne books. I do think they are worth it as well. They are pretty unique, well-made, and well-researched. I like the non-fiction ones for my girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wrote about this earlier, that I live in an area that mostly SAHM's and military spouses. They live for this stuff. he saddest are the SAHM's whose spouse is living paycheck to paycheck, and their wives are spending money on this crap and claiming they own their own business. One said she felt sorry I had to work full time and not raise my child. I wanted to tell her I felt sorry she was too stupid to realize she's a customer, NOT an employee and definitely NOT a business owner!

Hmm. I'm a SAHM and don't know of one single other SAHM who would be caught dead doing MLM schemes. Certainly, I wouldn't. Seems like this thread is just a convenient way for some of you to do your usual slamming of SAHMs as a group. Which is interesting, because when I was a WOHM, there were always certain women in the office trying to hawk their crap to the rest of us. Obviously, there are all kinds of people who get involved in these ridiculous schemes, whether they SAH or WOH.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wrote about this earlier, that I live in an area that mostly SAHM's and military spouses. They live for this stuff. he saddest are the SAHM's whose spouse is living paycheck to paycheck, and their wives are spending money on this crap and claiming they own their own business. One said she felt sorry I had to work full time and not raise my child. I wanted to tell her I felt sorry she was too stupid to realize she's a customer, NOT an employee and definitely NOT a business owner!

Hmm. I'm a SAHM and don't know of one single other SAHM who would be caught dead doing MLM schemes. Certainly, I wouldn't. Seems like this thread is just a convenient way for some of you to do your usual slamming of SAHMs as a group. Which is interesting, because when I was a WOHM, there were always certain women in the office trying to hawk their crap to the rest of us. Obviously, there are all kinds of people who get involved in these ridiculous schemes, whether they SAH or WOH.

NP. I know an equal number of people in this area who do MLM and stay at home or work. However if you live in an area that's mostly SAHM's of course you're going to know more people who do this crap who are SAHM's just by default. So take your mommy wars elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wrote about this earlier, that I live in an area that mostly SAHM's and military spouses. They live for this stuff. he saddest are the SAHM's whose spouse is living paycheck to paycheck, and their wives are spending money on this crap and claiming they own their own business. One said she felt sorry I had to work full time and not raise my child. I wanted to tell her I felt sorry she was too stupid to realize she's a customer, NOT an employee and definitely NOT a business owner!

Hmm. I'm a SAHM and don't know of one single other SAHM who would be caught dead doing MLM schemes. Certainly, I wouldn't. Seems like this thread is just a convenient way for some of you to do your usual slamming of SAHMs as a group. Which is interesting, because when I was a WOHM, there were always certain women in the office trying to hawk their crap to the rest of us. Obviously, there are all kinds of people who get involved in these ridiculous schemes, whether they SAH or WOH.

NP. I know an equal number of people in this area who do MLM and stay at home or work. However if you live in an area that's mostly SAHM's of course you're going to know more people who do this crap who are SAHM's just by default. So take your mommy wars elsewhere.

I agree. I have been invited to these parties by both working moms (including a lawyer and a doctor) and stay at home moms.

[Anonymous]

You never see men selling crap. We need to stop the madness. No one needs more clutter.

[Anonymous]

I decline most but recently went to a Cabi party. I ended up buying a shirt for $80 that looks like a $20 shirt from Kohls... I always regret buying the stuff after the fact. Most of the "parties" are hosted by pretty wealthy women who get a nice hostess gift. I would never host one of these parties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cabi. Scentsy. Thirty-one. Crappy Jewelry Company.

All go to my junk email file. Don't expect me to rsvp, especially via evite.

What do you do when you see the offender at school, the grocery store or the park and they ask if you are coming?

I've never been asked, but I'd likely say that "I can't get out during the week." True.

Also, I have no idea who "my" Cabi lady is. Don't recognize her name.

My thirty-one lady is a a long-ago former neighbor.

[Anonymous]

The two MLMs I know sell Beachboy and Arbonne, and they are both professionals. One is a mom, the other is not. Wait, the third MLMer I used to know was also a working mom.

I don't think you can say this is a SAHM thing only and turn it into an attack on them.

Well this is DCUM. I guess you can .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wrote about this earlier, that I live in an area that mostly SAHM's and military spouses. They live for this stuff. he saddest are the SAHM's whose spouse is living paycheck to paycheck, and their wives are spending money on this crap and claiming they own their own business. One said she felt sorry I had to work full time and not raise my child. I wanted to tell her I felt sorry she was too stupid to realize she's a customer, NOT an employee and definitely NOT a business owner!

Hmm. I'm a SAHM and don't know of one single other SAHM who would be caught dead doing MLM schemes. Certainly, I wouldn't. Seems like this thread is just a convenient way for some of you to do your usual slamming of SAHMs as a group. Which is interesting, because when I was a WOHM, there were always certain women in the office trying to hawk their crap to the rest of us. Obviously, there are all kinds of people who get involved in these ridiculous schemes, whether they SAH or WOH.

NP. I know an equal number of people in this area who do MLM and stay at home or work. However if you live in an area that's mostly SAHM's of course you're going to know more people who do this crap who are SAHM's just by default. So take your mommy wars elsewhere.

Are you referring to me, the first PP? Because I just said exactly that, in the bolded statement above. The topic of MLMs seems to give certain women justification for starting up the mommy wars again. I was saying that MLMs are definitely equal opportunity offenders and work status has nothing to do with who gets involved with them. I'm not the one who was starting the mommy wars by slamming an entire group of people.