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While in the toy aisle the other day, Gigi was oggling many delightful items.  How much is this?  How much is that?  In general, everything my daughter wants to buy will take at least four (if not 16) weeks of saving her precious three-dollar-a-week allowance before she can afford anything.  Just like any other mom, I would love to just drop the $25.00 to give my girl whatever she wants.  But it is not things or money that are the issue, it’s the principle here, right people???  If I just give her everything we risk ‘creating’ a ‘spoiled’ child.  So as she was looking at all of this drool worthy plastic, I was wracking my brain tryingto figure out how to authentically get my kid some money.  Then it dawned on me: she could sell something!  What could she sell?  Well, Bradley buys a box of 100 Otter Pops every summer and we have a surplus (from last year) and a fresh box this year.  We would sell Otter Pops for .25 each!  Perfect!  My idea was met with my five-year-old’s enthusiasm.  When could we start?  She’s going to be rich!!!

pict0208pict0203The first step was to make a cash box, colorful and with a hole on top where the people can drop their money.  Next, we had to make signs that told how much stuff cost.  Otter pops cost .25 cents each and Pixy Stix rang in at .10 or three for .25 cents.  We added Pixy Stix to diversify our stock and to get rid of some old Halloween candy!

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She asked Pipi if we could sell at his house because (and she came up with this) more people drive by his house than ours so there would be more cutomers!  What a smartie!

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We set up today and immediately had two customers: Grandma Sheri and Pipi.  While she was glad to make the money she turned to me after they left and asked, “When will there be people I don’t know?”  Before long, there they were: people she didn’t know!  She was dedicated and stuck with the task of running a ‘store’ from 2:00 until 5:00 and made $11.55!  Nice!  People were so generous, neighbors coming over, people stopping their cars and the tipping!   Wow!  Afterward, Gigi expressed an interest running her store again tomorrow to make even more money with her leftover supplies.  She says she wants to buy a Littlest Pet Shop kennel when she sells out.  We may be having sales for a while!

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