Thursday, March 27, 2008

Our little entrepreneur


Matt cleaned the garage this afternoon; hallelujah! During the 'cleaning' time, Jackson was spot on- helping with the broom, playing with toys Matt already categorized into a basket and helping put away hammers (but still hammering things along the way). By the time I arrived home, he had a specific, schemed plan. He found a few things he wants to sell. At the top of the list is his tricycle, which he has outgrown. His theory is that he plans to sell the tricycle for $109- which is the cost of a lego city set he has been eyeing up at target (don't even get me started on how the heck they can sell a lego set for $109!).

To help him think through this, we started asking questions and should have known what we were in for:

Us: How much will you sell it for?
Him: $109.
Us: It's not worth that much, you know.
Him: It's worth more than $109, that's a deal.
Us: Do you know how much it's really worth?
Him: How much?
Us: It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay.
Him: So, for sure $109.
Us: Where will you sell it?
Him: Target or Ebay or a garage sale, for $109.
Us: Target doesn't do trades and maybe not Ebay. Then there's shipping.
Him: So it would be more than $109.
Us: How about something like Craig's list?
Him: Who is Craig?

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