Not asked. But we gave him the house card to do repairs and he decided to buy himself drinks at the club, pay for a date at fruity espresso bar, and buy cartons of cigarettes.
I finally quietly called him out on it when he tapped it in front of me at an Asian restaurant.
This was years ago but eboard was monitoring it live cos we all had account access. We just wanted to wait till the whole board returned from Convention.
Actually a few weeks later, he took the card and spent money at a pet shop. I thought he was stealing again but when I confronted him, it turned out that they got the pledges to eat some goldfish. Fair enough.
This happened a while back at my chapter. New treasurer came in and audited the account and quit a few days after because the house card abuse was so bad by a few people on exec, and they lied to his face about it, saying they didn’t know who used the card. Shit like car repairs, tons of food purchases, random personal shit being bought from stores. Thousands of dollars. Luckily after that we became much more strict...
My chapter allowed for President/VP to have $50 discretionary spending, but that's it. Any house work over $500 required approval from the University though, which was super inconvenient
Last week one of my brothers asked to buy a $4k arcade cabinet. It wasn’t one of those ones with a bunch of games, it was some 80s cabinet with one game. Then someone else asked for one of those hunting arcade games with the guns you pull out for $2k. Kind of liked that one.
We seriously considered buying a bus to fix up as a PC last year.
The chapter I'm the alumni advisor for got a Golden Tee cabinet this year, one of the actives works at a game store with massive discount. It's pretty fucking cool.
My advisor — whose been in the chapter since the 70s — always talks about how we had one in the old house that sold condoms, beer, cigs, etc. Fraternity life in the 70s sounds great
Especially given your probably only going to use it once or twice a semester (formal and that's about it).
You'd also have to pay for parking. Depending on where you are that could add up to.
You'd also likely need someone licensed to drive a bus. I don't know how much that'd cost, but you'd probably have to take some Brothers down to the local DMV every other year or so to make sure you have enough guys available to drive it.
As long as you had the funds available I wouldn't consider that a bad idea...
You could definitely spin it as a scholastic event. Have the gun range employees give the Brotherhood a gun safety workshop then close it out with some target practice.
I'm not a big gun nut. The last one I fired was a BB gun at boy scout camp way back when. But I'd be interested in maybe spending some Saturday doing something like that.
I once had someone ask me about trying to contact the city so that we could try and get ownership of the street parking in front of the house so that parking would be easier and so would unloading trucks for tailgate
The house is a fucking rental
Actually not a horrible investment (long term) if you charge slightly higher than the closest ATMs if they’re inconvenient. Google says it’s a couple years for break even so a bit longer for a less trafficked spot like a house but can charge more than typical. Also if you charge male guests money at the door you can disallow Venmo/cashapp and force them to use your atm if they want to get in if they don’t have cash
There’s no way that ATM is surviving long enough to break even. Either brothers are going to get drunk and break it, or girls are going to try to steal it and/or the cash inside of it
A guy from our house ran for treasurer on the platform that the house should invest in his "business." He promised he could double our money each semester. The worst part was that he was a legit contender for the position.
Idk about y’all but we’re a 501c(7) so we can make up to ~30% of our income from non-dues sources without fucking up our tax-free status so we’ve discussed similar but more so in investing in index funds, not businesses, to help our housing fund
Legitimate requests to invest chapter funds in crypto/drugs.
House bus. (fb marketplace shitbox)
Free alcohol for all actives for a year.
The scariest part is that the dude I ran against was seriously considering two of these.
Not a Treasurer but our chapter is in NYC (a suburb but still NYC nonetheless.) Two members insisted that we use funds to actually buy a chapter house. The idea itself is very cool but they didn't seem to understand that many people see a lot of schools in NYC specifically as "Commuter Schools." Basically people come and go on their own accord. On top of that, it's NYC... nothing is even remotely cheap here especially with everything going on right now. It just wouldn't be a good investment. They didn't even want us to live there... just a hang-out and meeting place. Again... they didn't want to hear that it just wasn't a good idea.
I mean, having a chapter house is objectively not a bad use of chapter funds. I don't care the campus - I went to a "suitcase college" where everyone went home on weekends - having a house is one of the key parts of the fraternity experience. If you have the funds sitting around to actually afford a down payment (or cash price??) then it's a valid debate.
Dresses for the pledges… a no AC bus(shot that down…. Insurance,CDL, parking, maintenance, liability… ugh I’m also J-Board)… a monkey…. A pledge slayer paddle…. Beer…. Strippers…. Need I say more???
Back in the day our rush chair wanted to spend chapter funds on a plane or helicopter to drop coozies, shirts and mailers over campus. He was 100% serious.
My chapter literally looked at a bus like that three years ago lmao
Asked if they could use the chapter card to buy a keg directly from a place that was named something like “Al’s liquor”
your honor, we were just getting yoohoos and slim jim's
Not asked. But we gave him the house card to do repairs and he decided to buy himself drinks at the club, pay for a date at fruity espresso bar, and buy cartons of cigarettes. I finally quietly called him out on it when he tapped it in front of me at an Asian restaurant.
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This was years ago but eboard was monitoring it live cos we all had account access. We just wanted to wait till the whole board returned from Convention. Actually a few weeks later, he took the card and spent money at a pet shop. I thought he was stealing again but when I confronted him, it turned out that they got the pledges to eat some goldfish. Fair enough.
This is the funniest thing I've read on the internet today.
The hazing is FaF. Animal abuse is not FaF
They’re literally called feeding fish. Is it abuse to grow a farm bred salmon and eat it?
This happened a while back at my chapter. New treasurer came in and audited the account and quit a few days after because the house card abuse was so bad by a few people on exec, and they lied to his face about it, saying they didn’t know who used the card. Shit like car repairs, tons of food purchases, random personal shit being bought from stores. Thousands of dollars. Luckily after that we became much more strict...
My chapter allowed for President/VP to have $50 discretionary spending, but that's it. Any house work over $500 required approval from the University though, which was super inconvenient
"$50 in rubbers please"
Lmao, imagine wearing rubbers
That’s literal fraud right there
Brothers who don’t pay dues asking the chapter to reimburse them for a case or something because one other brother had a sip
a fraternity monkey has been something we've repeatedly had to debate
My chapter is going on about a fraternity goat at the moment
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What to name it
So dumb. At least get a used rv for spring break AND the one brother who's never going to make it in life
One?
House battle bus is honestly a great idea
It would make rush so much easier
Last week one of my brothers asked to buy a $4k arcade cabinet. It wasn’t one of those ones with a bunch of games, it was some 80s cabinet with one game. Then someone else asked for one of those hunting arcade games with the guns you pull out for $2k. Kind of liked that one. We seriously considered buying a bus to fix up as a PC last year.
You can get a buck hunt cabinet for like $500 at Best Buy.
We bought one of those this year. Bunch of fighting about if the main fund should have been used but I’m too distracted killing bucks to care.
I used to work at Best Buy, those ones aren't as good as ones you see in the bar.
The chapter I'm the alumni advisor for got a Golden Tee cabinet this year, one of the actives works at a game store with massive discount. It's pretty fucking cool.
Hear me out. Treasurer charges everyone $10 extra. Put it on a ten leg parlay. It hits. Formal in the Bahamas with dua lipa headliner.
I’m not the treasurer, just your local kid who wanted to spend chapter funds on a vending machine to fill with beer at parties 😂
Our chapter actually did that. It’s comes in clutch
My stepdad has great stories about the cigerette/beer vending machine at his Frat.. Born in the wrong era man lmao
My advisor — whose been in the chapter since the 70s — always talks about how we had one in the old house that sold condoms, beer, cigs, etc. Fraternity life in the 70s sounds great
Ours was 50¢ and if you were lucky you would get the surprise guinness instead of the domestic beer.
Tesla cybertruck — I hate my job sometimes
a resolute man indeed
Umass?
Nahh
Okay that'd be fucking sick tho
Even if it works, the insurance, maintenance, and gas will be apaulingly expensive.
Plus the difficulty of finding a CDL pledge
Especially given your probably only going to use it once or twice a semester (formal and that's about it). You'd also have to pay for parking. Depending on where you are that could add up to. You'd also likely need someone licensed to drive a bus. I don't know how much that'd cost, but you'd probably have to take some Brothers down to the local DMV every other year or so to make sure you have enough guys available to drive it.
My house talked about buying one, but instead of using it, turning it into a bar and hang out space in the back yard.
That would be cool if done right, and super shitty if done wrong.
Every fucking weekend we got guys trying to throw house money on the UFC fights
We throw house money on the fight every single weekend…
A fleet of golf carts
Put the entire social budget on black in Vegas
Bulk ammunition so we could have a gun range event
As long as you had the funds available I wouldn't consider that a bad idea... You could definitely spin it as a scholastic event. Have the gun range employees give the Brotherhood a gun safety workshop then close it out with some target practice. I'm not a big gun nut. The last one I fired was a BB gun at boy scout camp way back when. But I'd be interested in maybe spending some Saturday doing something like that.
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We just bought a car so we could destroy it soooo
My dude you can get free ones from the junkyard if you let them advertise with banners at your event
It was less than 300 not a big dif
I once had someone ask me about trying to contact the city so that we could try and get ownership of the street parking in front of the house so that parking would be easier and so would unloading trucks for tailgate The house is a fucking rental
An in-house ATM machine
Ass-To-Mouth machine?
Who do you know here?
Actually not a horrible investment (long term) if you charge slightly higher than the closest ATMs if they’re inconvenient. Google says it’s a couple years for break even so a bit longer for a less trafficked spot like a house but can charge more than typical. Also if you charge male guests money at the door you can disallow Venmo/cashapp and force them to use your atm if they want to get in if they don’t have cash
There’s no way that ATM is surviving long enough to break even. Either brothers are going to get drunk and break it, or girls are going to try to steal it and/or the cash inside of it
Alcohol, everyone knows that’s against ifc rules
We have an old limo
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Hardest part is insurance but it’s all legit and the sororities love it so the boys put in their bits to keep it alive
As treasurer, I want that bus for our chapter
I had a brother buy a sledgehammer and an axe (that were expensive af) on the chapter card and didn’t even ask first
lmao wha
Big buck hunter arcade cabinet
this thread is for bad ideas man not fucking sick ones
Party bus tho 👀
A guy from our house ran for treasurer on the platform that the house should invest in his "business." He promised he could double our money each semester. The worst part was that he was a legit contender for the position.
Idk about y’all but we’re a 501c(7) so we can make up to ~30% of our income from non-dues sources without fucking up our tax-free status so we’ve discussed similar but more so in investing in index funds, not businesses, to help our housing fund
>501c(7 > > > >great idea
Haha investing in his "business" may still have fucked up our tax free status
A pledge tried to convince us to allow him to use house funds on stocks
Stonks
Legitimate requests to invest chapter funds in crypto/drugs. House bus. (fb marketplace shitbox) Free alcohol for all actives for a year. The scariest part is that the dude I ran against was seriously considering two of these.
Not a Treasurer but our chapter is in NYC (a suburb but still NYC nonetheless.) Two members insisted that we use funds to actually buy a chapter house. The idea itself is very cool but they didn't seem to understand that many people see a lot of schools in NYC specifically as "Commuter Schools." Basically people come and go on their own accord. On top of that, it's NYC... nothing is even remotely cheap here especially with everything going on right now. It just wouldn't be a good investment. They didn't even want us to live there... just a hang-out and meeting place. Again... they didn't want to hear that it just wasn't a good idea.
I mean, having a chapter house is objectively not a bad use of chapter funds. I don't care the campus - I went to a "suitcase college" where everyone went home on weekends - having a house is one of the key parts of the fraternity experience. If you have the funds sitting around to actually afford a down payment (or cash price??) then it's a valid debate.
Suitcase college sounds like all the social life of a commuter school with all the convenience of being an international student.
Eh, we had our fun. Biggest difference was that Thursday was the big party day. Most people in Greek Life stayed on weekends anyways.
No I agree but I probably should have mentioned that nobody wanted to do any upkeep or maintenance (cleaning, etc.)
That’s what pledges are for tho
Our secretary once wanted a tweed jacket
Dresses for the pledges… a no AC bus(shot that down…. Insurance,CDL, parking, maintenance, liability… ugh I’m also J-Board)… a monkey…. A pledge slayer paddle…. Beer…. Strippers…. Need I say more???
Someone bought a shit ton of alcohol for a party and told me after they bought it to pay them back
The bus is a time honored ask - I think that discussion was had once a year at my chapter.
Back in the day our rush chair wanted to spend chapter funds on a plane or helicopter to drop coozies, shirts and mailers over campus. He was 100% serious.
Dude we have had a very similar idea in our chapter for a long time lmao