the jar...

Awhile back I was getting really tired of the kids asking for something every time we went to the store. It gets so annoying! It seemed like every time we were there it would be "Can we get a snack? Can we have a movie? Look at this toy Mommy, maybe we should get it. Oooh, we should get new books to read. Etc. Etc. So I decided to try and do something about it. I told the kids that every time we chose not to eat out, and to just eat dinner at home, or chose to not buy a movie, toy, snack etc. we would put the money into a jar. Whatever we would have spent would go in it. They decided that the money they saved would be for a trip to Chuck E. Cheese. We used an empty animal cracker container and labeled it. Now we have had a lot of money in there. But they also like to use it for small things. Like concessions at the movies and things like that. We decided to count it out today and the kids ( with a little bit of help from Ben& I) have managed to save $48! I am pretty impressed with them. They wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese tonight for family night but we are trying to convince them to save a little more. It is hard to see the bigger picture when you are little. Ok, for me too sometimes. Anyway...I am off to play football for family night. Fun times!