My children write letters and color pictures almost every day. Their favorite thing to do is mail these letters to aunts, uncles and grandparents. They address them and stuff the mailbox full of unstamped letters with the occasional peanut butter sandwich folded up inside for another lucky person.
This past weekend one of my kids was extra bust filling out envelopes and putting in items. I first noticed it on Saturday, but by Monday morning the mailbox was full of letters to be mailed. It was so full the post lady had to bring my mail up to the house.
“Someone was busy writing letters.” She informed me.
I apologized she had to bring them up to the house and walked back to the mailbox to retrieve the un-mailable letters. They were packed full of heavy metal items. I brought them inside and opened all the letters and dumped all this on the table:
I recognized the pile from the ballpark the other day. They had been putting up a new chain link fence and the little kids spent most of the game checking out the new addition.
“Avery, can you come here” I yelled.
“Hey girl, you were busy, these envelopes are too big and heavy. Who were you mailing them to?” I asked her.
I should have known better than to ask, she looked at me like I had grown two heads and was too stupid to possibly be the parent.
“Cash for Gold.” Avery said. “They have a guarantee.”
~ Twelve hours later I am still giggling to myself. If you have not seen the cash for gold commercials, that means you don’t watch enough T.V. 🙂
P.S. As I was writing this morning my 9 and 7 year olds were reading over my shoulder, the 9 year old turned to the 7 year old and said, “see, I told you it wouldn’t work.”
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ha ha ha! cash for gold! We don’t watch much TV but that doesn’t really matter. I remember when Harland was 2 we were walking through the paper goods sections and I heard….MOM, look, Charmin Ultra. he recognized the package from a commercial. Those advertising agencies are doing their jobs well!
I remember the summer I went to live with my sister in Las Vegas and her 3 delightful children, since Vegas is so hot during the summer we mainly spent our days infront of the TV in the Air conditioned home, and I remember one day at the gas station sitting in the van with the boys the youngest of which informed me “Meagan, you are costing us too much money you should dail 10-10-321” was that the comercial that use to air back in 1999? I busted up laughing so hard, he was like 4 at the time and he so coudl have been a spokesperson for that long distance calling company–kids sure do say the darndest thing, but if I remember right, his brother spoke up and. said that the cometing company would save us more
Who needs school when they learn so much from those annoying commercials! Love your blog…love your big family!
That story is too cute! She is a thinker…trying to make some money!
Haha oh my gosh-why didn’t I think of that!?
Haha oh my gosh-why didn't I think of that!?
Haha! 10-10-321
I remember that! You dialed that to use the low cost long distance, remember when we had to worry about long distance calls!
Cash for Gold is at least getting to the kids! Once, when I had turned my five-year-old down for buying something we didn’t need, I told him it was too much money. He replied (quite matter-of-factly,) “Then just call Cash for Gold. You send in your old jewelry you don’t want, and they send you money!”
Why didn’t I think of that?!
That is so funny…I think you need that mail bag and FAST! 🙂
Now that is super funny, kids pick up on the most random things don't they. She sounds like one resourceful little lady!