With one kid in Elementary school, and one kid in daycare, we are a little fund raisered out at this point in the year, and we still have several months of the school year left!

Between books, candy, fun runs, picture days, and just general teachers asking for stuff for the class room, we're a little tapped out.

Now I can understand that the teachers are strapped for cash and I don't expect them to pay for stuff in the classroom, but at some point it just becomes too much.  Talking to other parents at school, this is a common theme.  We take in candy and wrapping paper order forms into our work and sell our kids trinkets, but everybody else at work has the same order forms. 

And we take the order forms to our friends and family members to beg for money from them, but we're running out of friends and family to hit up.

I wonder if we can use all of these "donations" as a tax deduction?  And what would you put on your tax form?  $500 to buy candy bars from school?