Exposing Our Inner Marie Kondo

For the past year Lucky Dragon has started to pick up on the value of money. We let him go "work" with me a few times and he learned that working harder and faster allowed him to get paid more. He loved feeling "rich" and was proud to put some into his "mission savings" and to pay his tithing on Sunday. 

Since then he has been obsessed with ways to make money. A few months ago he asked if he could load up some toys into the wagon and go door to door selling them to neighbors! We told him that was not really a good idea (you know...COVID etc). But we told him we could do a garage sale. It took a few weeks between Lady Hiva being in Hawaii and school starting again, but we finally pulled it off!

I was so proud of our two Muggles. They worked hard to carry items, choose which toys they wanted to sell, and helped me organize well into the night to be ready for the next day. We unloaded stuff from all rooms in the house. It is amazing what you collect over the years. One thing about our life style of moving every 2 years, we did not have a bunch of junk...but this house we are 3 years and counting! YIKES!! 

Koala Bear was good about putting tags on. It was good practice for her to do numbers. She now knows what things like "twenty-five cents" and "Seven dollars and fifty cents" look like. I would tell her the price and she would happily dance over to her own music (literally dance and shake the booty the whole way) to price it while I moved on to the next item. 

Lucky Dragon was SO excited to make money on his items. We allowed him to set his own prices. He wanted to make the signs for them too. I loved the one sign that he made that had a dollar bill drawn under it and he included "IN GOD WE TRUST." This guy does not miss any details! 

During the sale, Lucky Dragon and Koala Bear kept playing with the items that were out. We had to laugh as they had not played with them in a year, but when it was time to see them go...they were all of a sudden interested. Lucky Dragon kept asking if he could have some money so he could "buy back his toys!" hahaha! I would have to explain we were trying to not have so many toys. He would remember and then be alright again for a few minutes! 

The day came and in 4 hours we sold nearly everything that we had out. We have a few items left and we will try to sell them online. We were happy to get rid of the stuff and to save for our trip to Walt Disney World...whenever that will be! Thank you, COVID. HAHA.  

I felt satisfied for de-cluttering a bit, for seeing how hard the kids worked, and for making money on items that were unused and just sitting in the house! Maybe next time we can raise the stakes! :) I cannot even tell you how happy it made me to see all of the empty bins at the end of the day!