Please stop inviting me to your "party"

[Anonymous]

I think most of the stuff is ugly. Thirty One, Lularoe, Jamberry, Keep Collective, all ugly stuff. I despise being added to FB groups that are online parties. Half the time I leave the group and I get added back...it's maddening!! The only direct sales item I've ever bought are essential oils, and from someone who never invited me to an online party or pushed them on me.

[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.

Sorry, I don't know any working women who do MLM.

[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.

Sorry, I don't know any working women who do MLM.

OMG, there's a whole clique of them at my office. Including the division chief, go figure! I'm always so embarrassed for her when she trots out her sample merchandise, but because she's our superior, none of us can really say anything.

[Anonymous]

I live outside the DC area, and I've probably been invited to at least 25 parties over the past three years. I have only gone to one, and that was for a product I was actually interested in buying. I'd say it's a pretty even balance of SAHMs and working moms who host these parties. Lots of the working moms are teachers and small business owners who are looking to supplement their incomes. The SAHMs are probably my wealthiest friends. They don't do it to make money. They just like to shop and have people over.

These parties annoy the hell out of me because I hate seeing these companies take advantage of women. It's nothing personal when I decline these invitations. It's not that I don't want to support my friends or be social; I don't want to support the companies.

[Anonymous]

The one friend I have that is heavily involved is a childhood friend who posts everyday on FB.

She was in abusive relationship for years and she left a couple years ago with her kids. She was desperate for a job and a woman at her church convinced her to start selling the stuff. I honestly think she continues to sell it because she gained a instant group of friends after years of not being able to have any and because she truly doesn't know any better and really believes the hype about a full time income on part time hours, etc

[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.

Sorry, I don't know any working women who do MLM.

OMG, there's a whole clique of them at my office. Including the division chief, go figure! I'm always so embarrassed for her when she trots out her sample merchandise, but because she's our superior, none of us can really say anything.

I work with all men, so that's probably it - that and I said my area is mostly military wives and SAHM's. They ALL sell MLM junk.

[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.

YES! And the weirdest part is, all except one of these people I know, were ALREADY SAHMs before they started their "businesses." So it's not like it enabled them to quit their horrible real jobs and spend time with their kids, they were doing that already. ALso, they never talk about the products themselves, just the "lifestyle" peddling this crap enables.

[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.

YES! And the weirdest part is, all except one of these people I know, were ALREADY SAHMs before they started their "businesses." So it's not like it enabled them to quit their horrible real jobs and spend time with their kids, they were doing that already. ALso, they never talk about the products themselves, just the "lifestyle" peddling this crap enables.

I feel sorry for their working husbands, whose salary pays for this crap.

[Anonymous]

YES YES YES to all of this. A mom I kind of knew because our kids were on the same soccer team last summer added me on FB a few weeks ago and I accepted her request thinking nothing of it, but just hours after I accepted I got invited to some BS "virtual Jamberry party!!!!" group. Gag. If you want to add me that's fine, but don't do it just to peddle your junk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only one of these I would consider going to is the sex toy ones. Those tacky nail wraps are literally the worst crap ever.

When I was in my mid 20s I sold sex toys at in home parties (Passion Parties was the company). This was about 10 years ago so it was before everyone was bombarding people with MLM stuff on social media. I did it for a couple years as secondary income. The buy-in wasn't outrageous. If I recall correctly, I earned it back plus a little more after 2 parties. It was actually really easy money. My typical party was $200. I wasn't pushy so I didn't book as many parties as some others on my team, but it was a lot of fun. The one good thing was that it wasn't something like Scentsy or 31 where you knew 5 people who sold it. If someone was hosting a bachelorette party or a girls' night in, they knew where to find me. I didn't have to badger my friends into having a party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the people I know who do it are SAHM's with big law type husbands. They live in $1.5 million dollar houses. I don't think they need the money, they just want to earn their "own" money. I notice it mostly with my kids' preschool friends.

You have some nerve inviting me to your party, but not inviting my kid to your kid's birthday party. Then you post it all on Facebook. No thanks.

Same with the ones I know. I think they do it to socialize but maybe also so they can say they have a "business".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only one of these I would consider going to is the sex toy ones. Those tacky nail wraps are literally the worst crap ever.

When I was in my mid 20s I sold sex toys at in home parties (Passion Parties was the company). This was about 10 years ago so it was before everyone was bombarding people with MLM stuff on social media. I did it for a couple years as secondary income. The buy-in wasn't outrageous. If I recall correctly, I earned it back plus a little more after 2 parties. It was actually really easy money. My typical party was $200. I wasn't pushy so I didn't book as many parties as some others on my team, but it was a lot of fun. The one good thing was that it wasn't something like Scentsy or 31 where you knew 5 people who sold it. If someone was hosting a bachelorette party or a girls' night in, they knew where to find me. I didn't have to badger my friends into having a party.

But you had a buy in, which means you're a customer, NOT an employee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only one of these I would consider going to is the sex toy ones. Those tacky nail wraps are literally the worst crap ever.

When I was in my mid 20s I sold sex toys at in home parties (Passion Parties was the company). This was about 10 years ago so it was before everyone was bombarding people with MLM stuff on social media. I did it for a couple years as secondary income. The buy-in wasn't outrageous. If I recall correctly, I earned it back plus a little more after 2 parties. It was actually really easy money. My typical party was $200. I wasn't pushy so I didn't book as many parties as some others on my team, but it was a lot of fun. The one good thing was that it wasn't something like Scentsy or 31 where you knew 5 people who sold it. If someone was hosting a bachelorette party or a girls' night in, they knew where to find me. I didn't have to badger my friends into having a party.

But you had a buy in, which means you're a customer, NOT an employee.

I didn't call myself an employee. I was simply sharing my experience.

[Anonymous]

"Just say NO!" How hard is that really?

And I make it clear when I say "NO", that I will never say "YES" in the future.....so that is my hint to not include me in any future invitations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Just say NO!" How hard is that really?

And I make it clear when I say "NO", that I will never say "YES" in the future.....so that is my hint to not include me in any future invitations.

Oh but...MLMs are trained to see every No as a Yes, my dear! No such thing as a permanent no, ever!