Annual budget for our 2020 class activities announced

[_Mormon 8]

Quit.

I wish it were that easy. My wife is still TBM but is slowly beginning to see the light. Until then, gotta tread carefully.

[_Mormon 8]

My wife and I were recently informed that our class activities budget for the year 2020 is $250. We have 6 total in our class - this comes out to approx. 83 cents per boy per week. This is what is supposed to replace scouting. Meanwhile, $100 billion sits in an Ensign Peak Advisors account.

Which class is it, and what are the activities you are supposed to do?

9-10 year old boys. Anything goes apparently.

[_Mormon 8]

Are any activities that cost money planned for the boys?

Not yet - we just barely found out what our budget was. I stand in absolute awe over what the 'church' is pulling off right now... it's some of the most cleverly crafted business ops I've ever seen! I just wish members as a whole were aware of this story below from 2017 so they could see how deceitful their 'church' was when it said the $124 billion is for when Jesus comes back, which is an outright lie...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017 ... in-florida

[_Dr. Shades]

My wife and I were recently informed that our class activities budget for the year 2020 is $250. We have 6 total in our class - this comes out to approx. 83 cents per boy per week.

Can't you simply do one activity for $250 and call it good?

[_Philo Sofee]

Yeah, I think it is pretty obvious how people will increasingly respond to this kind of stuff. Pay tithing, pay fast offerings, pay activity fees, buy scriptures, buy temple clothing, buy garments, buy kitschy Mormon art, buy vapid GA books from Deseret Book . . . .

When I worked at Deseret Book lo those many years ago (only for a year just after my divorce) they always immediately put the new GA book on the best seller slot. I finally asked the manager how that can be when we simply put the book out yesterday. He said they were all instructed to always put the GA books in the bestseller slots. No one, and I mean NO ONE ever bought them. I urged people to do so and they said they had all of the GA's they could take at conference, they wanted to read something good! LOL....... We kept them out for a month or two then sent them all back to Salt Lake City.

I read every single doctrinal book they had and talked about them constantly to everyone, and the manager when I quit said he as quite sad because I had increased the doctrinal sales by over 1000%..... we were the highest Deseret Book store selling doctrinal/historical materials in the church.......

[_cinepro]

9-10 year old boys. Anything goes apparently.

What activities were you planning on doing that won't fit in the budget?

I suspect there will be larger-scale activities like a pinewood derby and summer camp that will be covered by the ward and/or stake. Our stake is doing a multi-day day camp for the primary this summer. So those wouldn't be included in your budget.

I did Cub Scouts for a few years a while ago, and also 11yo Scouts, and looking at the expense reports I have, it was almost all badges and awards. There were some craft supplies, but I'm not sure it would have added up to $250 for a year, so you might be surprised.

Or, you could just do what some leaders in our ward did a while back. Just pay for the stuff out of your own pocket and deduct it from your tithing.

[_Shulem]

Or, you could just do what some leaders in our ward did a while back. Just pay for the stuff out of your own pocket and deduct it from your tithing.

I wish had done a lot of things that way back when I was a member of the cult. It sure would have saved me money, time, and worries.

Being out of the cult is so wonderful -- liberating -- free- and a joyous existence. Thank God ME!

[_fetchface]

$250 will get you several pizza parties if you get the cheap stuff from Little Caesar's.

[_I have a question]

Isn’t the honourable thing to do to hand the money back to the Church to place into the Fund, and then pay for everything to do with your calling out of your own pocket over and above your donation obligation and cleaning duties? P.s. Have you got gold fillings in your teeth?

[_fetchface]

P.s. Have you got gold fillings in your teeth?

Yes, the Lord has the perfect secret hedge fund to invest gold fillings.