This past weekend we participated in a community-wide garage sale at our rec center. We had a 10x10 *booth* for our stuff. We encouraged Abi to put some of her things in the sale. Suprisingly she chose to sell her Little Tikes kitchen and Little Tikes Vanity. They were both items she had really outgrown and did not play with much anymore. She also chose some smaller things. We decided to split the revenue from the kitchen and vanity with her and she would keep the rest.
The sale went relatively well. We made $170 after we took out the cost of booth space ($15) and the cost of making the clothes rack ($5). However, the imortant thing to note in this is that Abi's portion of that $170 was $50! Abi made $50!
So as the sale was concluding, the following conversation took place.
"Abi you made $50!" (surprise on her face) "What you going to do with all that money?"
"I don't know." (in kind of a thoughtful tone)
"You could take us all to dinner."
"I could?" (not sure that was really true)
"Sure. Do you want to take us all out to dinner?"
"I don't think so." (kind of a reasoned out voice) "But I can take us to lunch."
"Oh, yea, where are you going to take us?"
"McDonalds"
"You know if you are paying at McDonalds you can pay for you to get a happy meal" (We don't usually get happy meals, we opt for cheaper choices)
"Really! Yes, yes yes!"
So it was settled, Abi bought our lunch at McDonalds.
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