As you may know, Aly is saving for a trip to Spain with her class. This trip couldn't come at a worse time with Robert not working but we want to keep positive thoughts about it. When our daughter approached us with this, a strong NO danced around in our head, but, not wanting to deflate our daughters joy, we decided to let her know how difficult coming up with that amount of money would be at this time. It's her senior year and there are alot of expenses that will be occurring.
I also, believe that kids need to learn that if they want something bad enough, they need to be creative and think of ways to earn the money. With that said, we told her that if she earned most of the money, we would cover the difference she wasn't able to make. We also told her that she would have to do the work and stick to it. Any spending she wanted to do would have to some from the fund.
Our next step was to figure out ways to make the money. We told her that all the recycling money she could keep for her trip. I also sell on Ebay and the money from that is for the house but the items I can't sell on Ebay would be donated to her for yard sales and she could keep that for her trip. She is also looking for a job at present.
Her trip is in April and we are hoping that we can get close to the $2100 needed for her to take this trip with her class. It would be a great experience for her.
I am creating a chart to keep you updated to her progress. Wish her luck!!
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